Idea Info Name: Boarderline Chaos Index: Primary Category: Simulation Submitted: 12/1/2003 10:57:12 PM Written By: James Dryden

The game (actually two games) is a mix of a war stragety, city simulation, civilization stragety, fighting, exploration, adventure, and RPG. In a nut shell, it has a lot. There are two primary focuses of the game. One is in the view of the Kings of the world and the other are Heros. Kings are the archetechs of Civilization and anything that comes from it. Their goal is to advance their civiliation to its maximum limits and to quite posibly conquor the world. The other aspect is that of the Hero. Their goal is to aquire power, fame, and wealth by any means they see fit. The conflict of the game is when the Kings meet the Heros who have very different agendas. Boarderline chaos is two games on one world, each game effecting each other and creating an endless possibility of conflict and game play.
 

The King has the responsibility of a civilization. They set into place the policies of prosperity. They can choose to be peacefull and create a wonderfull utopia or militaristic and stragatize a way to defeat their enemies on the battle field. Insted of one map inwhich to conquor, there will be hundreds. There is no telling where a civilization will establish. Kings will have to manage food, comodities, trade, military, policy, economy, education, technology research, magical research, and almost anything a civilization has to deal with. There will be hundred of different building types and thousands of visuals to help design a unique kingdom. The things the King make directly create the world the Heros play in. The King's POV is a 3/4 view of the map in which they controll.
 

Heros are born into a random kingdom but can be free sprits that go where they please and do pretty much as they please. They aquire fame and fortune by fighting monsters, solving dungeons, and even toppling powerfull Kings. The POV Heros experience the world in is first person. This style focuses on the individual and thats why they are refered to as Heros. The POV helps with the fighting style that will be used for this game. It is an RPG in the sense of battleing monsters, hitpoits, exp and magic but does it like a 3d fighting game would. There are a multitude of fighting techniques avaliable for Heros and a huge variety of weapons (pretty much every weapon made by man). A unique armor system realistically portrays the difference between taking damage and your armor protecting you from it.
 Combine the two games and you get an ever evolving, unpredictable, fresh game every time you play. While a King is bussy preparing for an upcomming war with an enemy, that enemy may be making a deal with a group of Heros to give them the advantage. Being the King is a strategic and thinking game. The Hero is a fast and exciting battle machine. A King is a creator, a Hero is a destroyer. Having a good conflict is what makes any subject interesting. Heros prove to be the greatest advasarys to Kings and vice versa. The game is about the balance between the two and the sence of chaos created when the two exist togeather with only the laws of the game to govern them.
 
Features:

 1. Two types of game in one world. This creates an organic enviroment that is never static and ever changing. There is no set way of acheaving seperate goals and the players hold all the power.

 2. Intergrated fighting and RPG style playing. While the battles between Heros will seem like epic versions of Soul Calabur, battles between armies will seem like Dynasty Warriors, there is a base of hit points and experience. The tougher the opponents a hero faces, not only with their skill with the character increase, their character will also gain levels that increase their stats to incredible heights.

 3. Relistic and relivant damage calculations. Unlike most RPGs where the strength score and weapon are the only things that factor into creating damage, this game uses physics as a base. Strength can carry you only so far when swinging a sword. In reality it has no bareing on how fast you can swing it and we all know that mass times speed equal momentum. It is that momentum that determines how much force is applied to the target. The weapons sharpness and the skill of its user plays a huge part in dealing damage as well. Strength only tells you how much weight you can swing.

 4. Realistic armor protection. Again my problem with most RPGs will be fixed with this feature. Armor is a thing meant to divert force from your delicate flesh. When someone in full plate takes a beating with a sword there are two different damage types at work. One is the force damage, or the transfer of momentum from the sword to your body. This damage is the most difficult to protect yourself from because of the law of physics involved. The other is attribute damage, This damage is the cutting or piercing of ones flesh. It only takes a loss of less than 1% of the human body for it to die. That 1% can be a sliver of flesh or the slight piercing into an artery or heart. If a brick were to fall ten feet and hit you on the head on its flat surface, you would have a chance of surviving or possibly taking no damage at all, however if what fell on your head was an arrow with the same force or an axe head, you're dead. Armor is meant to absorb the force and to not harm the user at all and here it does that. Inted of a defence number, there is an armor rating for three seperate sections of the body, the upper, middle, and lower parts. Each piece of armor has it's own armor rating. Added togeather they provided a percentage of defence from damage. If the percentage is over 100% then there is no damage taken by its wearer. There is ofcorse the problem of armor taking damage its self and becoming less protective.

6. Creating a building in one interface, creates the same building in the other. A King builds a caste to hold his treasure, that same castle has a life in the world of the Hero, some where to explore, defend, or loot.

Edit 12/5/03

While this game seems to cover everything, its not necessarilly one game but rather two. The Kings play a game involving other Kings primarily, while Heros conversly deal with each other. It is a game designed to be multi player game online. While it would be great to have thousands of Kings and heros on at one time, such as Earth history has experienced, it may be overload for a computing system. A King can have a Hero or vice-versa and is expected and encouraged. My personal experience with most AI systems have been rather unrealistic and two dimentional. By reducing the need on computer controlled creatures/enemies keeps the game from becoming predictable (camp, spawn pops, fight, rest and wait for another pop). At most the AI will be used when heros combat soldiers or monsters during battle.