Originally posted by Sanqui
I'm actually sort of weirded out nobody expanded the RPG system in a meaningful way. You'd think with the amount of Acmlmboard forks and clones somebody would add some nifty stuff.
Like Xenesis said, this actually happened a few times:
- RPG Revelations (?), Tuvai's ooooold board: had a battle system and some other stuff, was eventually redone in TuvaiBB (their custom board), eventually died
- EDS Forums, which appears to have finally died, had a bunch of additional stuff like different classes, PvE battles, and sometimes even PvP I think, probably one of the more fleshed out ones
- Some others that got halfway there or added small stuff, and then got forgotten, broken, etc.
The fact that a lot of Acmlmboard history has been lost due to various people abusing security exploits hasn't helped.
There was also a start of an RPG battle system on the original Acmlm's Board; Acmlm was playing around with a C SDL application that would tie into it, but it didn't get too far beyond some basic concepts. If I remember correctly, he also has (had?) a image that would show scenes from an RPG-style world, updated every time it was loaded, and the characters / states were actually tracked and such. But I haven't seen that in a good decade, so who knows.
One other complication that nobody really talks about is that the RPG stats are
extremely dynamic. While in other RPGs you'll have flat numbers for each stat, even if they can go up/down sometimes, the ones in this system are generated in real time based off of a few factors. If you have enough EXP/levels, even a single post can change your stats by quite a bit... and at the same time, everyone tends to fall into the same base stats, since it's largely based on posts and time since registering. Plus the goofy multiplicative equipment.
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), and it might be a while before I actually get around to implementing it.
