Dev work is steadily progressing on our side

I have recruited two partners in crime

A lot of stuff can't be shown until the layouts are done but I have been doing some theorycrafting on a new possible feature

if the Orbstarter campaign does well, a Monster Dungeon may be added to Gacha National Park

with the catch that it's different every time you go in

in short

in-universe roguelike dungeon

oh my sheet amazing

the generator is still a work in progress, there'd potentially be a place for submitting enemies from different canons

to add to the dungeon

it'd be a posting hook and possibly a job equivalent - get a couple combat abilities, start doing raids for cash

(no orbs though)

anyway there's two topics I'm trying to brainstorm 1

1: Shit to do in Gacha City

Necessary to keep people posting steadily

Jobs will be a thing, although I need to think of some good slightly-weird ones

and school, for younger characters - I'm envisioning a random mishmash of 90s Sitcom High School and Anime School

then eventually the Gacha National Park Dungeon

but I feel like we still need shit to Do

2: Event Worlds

the main sort of large-scale Events, temporary extra locales that the characters can visit in search of orbs and shit

There'll be one for each of the main NPCs, and the general anticipated theme is goofy parody/legally-distinct homages to various video games and genres

in which the laws of reality shift to become weirder and more video-gamey

plus also Collab Worlds but that's on the back burner for now

As one last aside,

TENTATIVE:

June 1st: Game infoposts locked in for launch

Call for sample regains for the tDM

June 10th: TDM and Reserves up

June 20th: Applications open

July 1st: Game Start

double chance of 5-star regains in the first app cycle :U

If people can offer some random brainstormy ideas, that could be a big help

two words: evo mats

what about them

occasionally have to grind for mats which in theory make themselves stronger

but for like 95% of the characters just makes their costume sparklier

all of the mats make literally no sense as to why they'd make you stronger

Here's a proof-of-concept hacky version of the dungeon generator to play with

'Grind for mats' could be sort of like a scavenger hunt activity

I like the idea of whichever event worlds are active having an influence on the hub world

Creating weird combos

hmm!

Event world one: Magical Girls fighting monsters by moonlight to protect their homes with the power of love!

Event world two: In the grim darkness of the distant future there is only war and the laughter of hateful gods

Hubworld: /is seriously weird right now

I don't even know what that would look like

You could have monthly quests, like Emp's task board

But battle brother Logarius of the iron battalion has unlocked the power of the love love hero prism wand

monthly quests are going to be a thing, in a slightly different from than that

maybe a less extreme version of that

the world combinations thing

where worlds don't encroach on Gacha City but it does get visitors

Event World Slimeplanet shows up, and suddenly there are bouncing slimes all over the city

covering everything in slime

Avengers Academy basically sticks all their Event stuff on the periphery of campus but it still has an effect on the main campus map

Covering it in snow or filling it with HYDRA goons to fight or whatever

catch them and fuse them to discover slightly different colors of slimes

And of course that's a builder game so you have to plonk down event buildings but I mean aside from that

I like the idea of there being a pool of rejected monsters from breeding games like fantasy forest

All these unwanted non-rares

unwanted non-rares are already a big plot point

Maybe there's a shelter to volunteer at

on account of that's what the main NPCs are

That's why I like the idea of them also setting up a kind of rescue org for the less sapient unlucky draws

know who the real pariahs of the gacha universe are?

those special monsters that you can just fuse into a guy for 100,000 EXP but are otherwise useless

their expected lifespan is measured in seconds

here's a third open question:

What are some RPs that you felt had particularly light or demanding AC levels

and what were the requirements like

10 comments is the lowest I've ever seen, although needing those to be in a limited number of threads can make it tricky

Most I've put up with is 30 comments but I regularly make double with that with two characters so