Speaking of new RPI Mu**'s

I've been tossing around the idea of compiling simple DIKU and opening a sandbox-type RPI. Where everybody creates a character that has a background as being a demigod. Very difficult to kill but not impossible. The game would be very PK driven but not many PKs would actually occur because killing another demigod would be very difficult.

Each character would have the capability to use OLC (online creation) in their home realms to basically build their own areas. You could invite others to your realm and they could teleport in. This is where you are very powerful and could possibly kill another demigod, so it would be a huge trust thing to go into another persons realm or to fight them in their home realms.

God Wars 2 is very similar to this idea but GW2 is completely PK driven with no RP and no IC/OOC. I would really love to see a GW2 theme as an RPI.

Anyway just an idea as I was daydreaming at work. Staring at code for 4 hours will do that to you.

I'm still hashing most of my ideas out. A few issues I have with the concept so far.

-Progression needs to be decided. I really wouldn't want players just entering the game powerful, but I also wouldn't want them entering the game weak and getting ganked by more powerful players. I'm thinking maybe the main city would actually be a "peace" realm where the gods cannot attack one another but can train their powers. Or it could just be a city that is watched over by an all powerful god.

-I would want permdeath to really have meaning. How do you do that when you're an all powerful deity?

-The main focus of the game would be giving complete control and power over to players. Hence giving them OLC (online creation) so they can basically form their own home world. I think a lot of my concepts come from GW2 already as I played there for a bit and loved the way KaVir implemented a lot of his stuff, the big deal breaker was no RP, no story really to go along with all those great feature and code.

Any word of this Delerak?

That is a cool idea, but players will rebel against having to start every PC in training. Just think of how long it takes the average Arm noob to start griping about having to start all over at novice with every PC. Usually there, the argument is "My background says I'm a badass, so I should be a badass." Making every PC have a noobish background avoids that argument, but it will just annoy players more by forcing them to play a certain type of PC.

Not trying to stir up shit, just saying, you will probably want to think up alternative chargen options for more experienced players, because they will inevitably demand it. I like the advantage that it would have of concentrating players in an interactive environment right from the start, but that comes at the price of player freedom.

Well it's the setting more than anything. Want to play outside of the academy? Fine but you better have a damn good reason. EVERYBODY goes thru that place. So you would basically have it in your background but not going thru it is just going to make you miss out on the main objective of the game. Sandbox like. People couldn't suicide their PCs and such. You'd come out trained and ready to tackle the problems of the future.