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Post by Beagle on Apr 5, 2004 21:03:22 GMT -5
~MODIFIED~
We are not planning on having monthly fees, optional or otherwise. We are designing a micropayment system similar to XBox Live where you can buy credits for money and spend them on special features. See the most recent update thread for details.
~ORIGINAL~ A la carte options that you can buy would be things like avatars. In NinjaWars 2, characters will have pictures in their profile to represent their ninja. Standard accounts will have the default avatar, but the you can purchase new avatars through the site for anywhere between $2 - $5, depending on the price the artist puts on it. We are asking artists to submit their work and supply their own price, which we will split with them 50/50. So you will find unique artwork carefully crafted by dedicated artists, not stolen clipart or screen shots.
That's pretty much it for paid features on the list right now. We are trying to design features that won't unbalance game play, we don't want paying players to be the best just because they can afford to donate. We want to keep the playing field level while still giving paying players something worthwhile. To that end, we graciously accept your suggestions.
--Woof
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Post by Armon on Jan 13, 2005 16:46:45 GMT -5
Me my friends and my girl friend had some ideas for Ninja wars 2. Here is the list of the ideas:
1.People would be able to send money and items to others.
2.Weapons may have cool skills.
3.People can own homes and may be able to store items and gold in homes.
4.People may be able to marry.
5.New items such as tools,weapons,armor,rings and NPC pets.
6.New kinds of work.
7.Banks might be nice too see.
That's it for now but but we'll get back to you when we think of more. I'd like to know if there is any way we can help you. thanks for working so hard so we can have fun.
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Post by camilo on Jan 13, 2005 23:53:51 GMT -5
ummm... elaborate those ideas...it all sounds good...but lets say for example the bank...would u get interest? could money suddenly dissapear?..u know...stuff like that..
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Post by Armon on Jan 16, 2005 22:47:03 GMT -5
We think that would be cool! But I think it's all up to u guys since I can't help you guys. So what did you think about the other ideas? We all want to know what you think! Oh and is there any other way we can help? We all love ninja stuff so if we could help that would be good. Thanks from all of us.
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Post by Beagle on Jan 17, 2005 4:27:27 GMT -5
1.People would be able to send money and items to others. You can currently give items to other players, but not gold. We are looking at ways to provide everyone with enough freedom to do normal things while making having multiple accounts less valuable. We don't want someone with more than one account to abuse this type of transfer system, but your desire for this feature is noted. This can be taken 2 ways. 1) Weapons allow you to access skills like "sword slash". or 2) This special Vampire Blade gives you access to the kill "Steal Soul" which drains health from an opponent and gives it to you. The first one we've been considering, the second we hadn't thought of but it would be incredibly interesting, thanks for the idea. We don't feel that individual player housing is really that important or efficient. However, we do want to have housing for players in the form of clan halls. You won't be able to use it all the time, but when you need it, hopefully your clan will let you stay there. Also, by storing items in the armory and gold in the vault, your clan will provide for you if you serve them well. Having families, lineages, and marriages is a very cool idea. I would love to see this idea in many games, but it may not make it into the first release of NW2 since we're already so far behind schedule. But it may be part of an update later on. Pets aren't really our bag. Rings, amulets, and necklaces, however, are great ideas. Weapons and armor have been discussed extensively and you can see some of the public discussion in this forum. We wanted this, too. Right now, another option we've decided upon is the ability to work for your clan, guarding it. There may be other work options as well, just for flavor purposes. There's been a lot of discussion about a bank, and we haven't come to a solid conclusion yet. However, we do know that a bank should have sliding minimum deposits to help keep money out there for other players to gain in combat. We have to decide if the bank should be universal, or you have to belong to a clan to use one, or if there should be no bank at all because it would take away all the money available. Still working on this one. Thank you all for your ideas and comments. We truly appreciate it. As for things you can do to help, if you love Ninjas so much, post us some links to great sites about Ninjas so we can learn even more about the fascinating culture and fantasy behind them. Thanks for playing NinjaWars! --Woof
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Post by Armon on Jan 17, 2005 14:33:41 GMT -5
I know of alot of books............But we have not found that many websites that are any good for ninja info . Me and my girlfriend will keep looking for sites, But here are some books you guys may what to look at. 1.The Ninja and their Secret Fighting Art by Steven K. Hayes (Any ninja book by this man is good ninja info!) 2.Deadly Weapons of the Koga Ninja by Yamashiro Butokukai (Good for cool weapons & gear used by ninjas.) 3.Essence Of Ninjutsu The Nine Traditions by Dr. Masaaki Hatsumi (All around a good book for ninjas!) That should be alot of info to start with so we'll get back to you on the websites. Thanks from the Shadow Foxs.
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Post by Beagle on Jan 19, 2005 17:20:51 GMT -5
Hey, thanks for the books! They'll be great for putting some of the finishing touches on NW2.
--Woof
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Post by Armon on Jan 20, 2005 16:20:25 GMT -5
Is there a way we could help with the lay out of the game or some thing eles? Like be come a members or some thing? We need more to do so I can bring more people to the game. The'll play when NW2 comes out so if I can help it move faster that would be cool.
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Post by Beagle on Jan 21, 2005 12:11:11 GMT -5
I think the best thing you can do to help is to browse through this forum and let us know what you think of the ideas that are here. Keep us informed as to what features you like and don't like and why. We need to hear from you to make sure we're developing along the right path.
On our side, we'll try to post up some more of our current design so you can all comment on it. I'll get on that.
--Woof
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Post by murmkuma on Jul 13, 2005 16:19:57 GMT -5
hey beagle, I'm an artist buddy, one who happens to LOVE drawing ninja, if you provide me with some sort of a list of what kinda ninja you wanna see-look: typical ninja, style: anime-American, cute cartooney, colour schemes, poses, what not, and a place to submit i would be more than happy to send you some stuff.
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Post by Beagle on Jul 13, 2005 19:45:44 GMT -5
Murmkuma, I posted a bunch of information on paid features in another thread in General I think it was. Anyway, how would you feel about submitting your avatars for a price and letting people buy them from you, and we'll take a percentage of the cost.
We think that system would get us some really great avatars, and keep people pretty happy in general. If you do really great work, you could make some good money, and all of the image storage and bandwidth and facilitation of the transactions would get paid for when we take some of price of the sale.
How does that sit with you?
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Post by murmkuma on Jul 14, 2005 17:24:21 GMT -5
;D ;That sits very well with me my friend, like I say, where do I submit? beagle@ninjawars.net ? As for price, do you have a structure in place, as per price per picture? I have no problem with percentage sharring. I have many Images scattered about, if you guys have particulars that would really facilitate the process. Jai is quite the artist himself, in fact he myself and another friend of ours are working on a comic book... there could be a veritable fountain of art at your disposal here. Characters, backrounds logos, you name it bud, we have the art connex in our city. also, what format and size do you want them?
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Post by Beagle on Jul 14, 2005 20:10:51 GMT -5
All of that in good time my friend.
We'll figure out the logistics as the time gets closer. Make sure I have your email address. Don't submit things to my email, but go ahead and email me so I have your email address.
We'll develop a web tool for uploading, and we'll develop size and dimensions standards as well.
Also, maybe we can figure out a way to advertise for your comic book as well. Get in touch on email.
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Post by murmkuma on Jul 16, 2005 12:22:52 GMT -5
;Droger roger good buddy! ;D Hope you Dig my and Jai's art. you can click on my web link in my profile to see 1 crappy image, no shading or effects, it was a test.
By the way thanks dude!!!
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Post by jai on Aug 30, 2005 20:44:19 GMT -5
Hey Beagle...Just a suggestion. Playing a lot of maple story(which is free) and I see the beta testers get hats(mark of the beta). What a great idea for your game, don't you think? Some sort of bonus for the veteran ninja. We will have to pay to get features right? Why not let the guys who stuck around get an item or sword even that no other has? Just a thought B.
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Post by zurcker on Sept 5, 2005 19:54:30 GMT -5
yes, veteran emails!!!!, just store our emails, like 1st 20 pages, then u can give us a cool armour, that u cant sell or trade. either u keep it, or throw it out. ;D ;D
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Post by Beagle on Sept 6, 2005 6:11:12 GMT -5
In previous threads I've made my intentions known that pretty much all the current players will receive some kind of reward for being loyal to the game. I haven't figured out all the details yet, but you have nothing to worry about. We won't forget about our players. We don't intend to make games for anyone but our players. It's in the works, all in good time.
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Post by SMILES on Sept 10, 2005 19:30:36 GMT -5
umm, u should email them about the NW2 release so they'll comeback and get their reward
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Post by Beagle on Sept 11, 2005 15:39:34 GMT -5
Also, in the ToDo list.
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Post by Beagle on May 9, 2006 22:15:22 GMT -5
This thread modified for clarification
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Post by siren on May 10, 2006 14:01:10 GMT -5
hey haven't posted in a while, but I do think that recognition factor is a great idea and gives a sense of community for a lot of loyal players, it creates a sense of pride/respect as well so you aren't just thrown in and casted aside like someone else in the game and marked Uber N00b3rz
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Post by Dashing Devil on Jul 3, 2006 13:33:30 GMT -5
I've been thinking... you were talking about other ways of working and earning money. How about a job as bodyguard, but for other players. Imagine someone thinks he/she will be killed, than you can hire another NWplayer (of course it's better to hire someone of a higher lvl then you) for a certain price an hour and an amount of hours, say 10 gold per hour for 10 hours = 100 gold. If he/she doesn't gets attacked it's easy money, but if he/she DOES get's attacked, the attacker would first have to kill the bodyguard! It's a risk for both that makes the job interesting. Your thoughts?
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Post by Beagle on Jul 3, 2006 18:07:06 GMT -5
there are currently thoughts that involve that idea but require an interesting modification to the combat engine. Can't really say more than that, but you might see a body guard-like feature after a few rounds.
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Post by Gigo on Jul 4, 2006 22:08:16 GMT -5
Just my two canadian cents:
I like all the ideas except the marriage one. While having a long line of 'family history' may be interesting to think about, WE ARE NINJAS (in the game). Ninjas do not have publically arranged marriages with happy family histories.
I'm sorry that I didn't put that very well, but I'm sure you get the gist of what I'm saying.
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Post by murmkuma on Jul 7, 2006 11:45:26 GMT -5
i think the option is a good to have as there is a known family in ninja wars.
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