You start he game, And get on the ship. A nice woman ask's you '' well you'll need a weapon wont you?'' You select from a list of types of weapons , Guns, melee weapons, and Throwing weapons. Well i'm gonna go into detail, Say you pick guns. you pick type of gun, then you pick attachments (basic ones of course). And you pick camo/color. Next is melee weapon, ill say kathana. You pick the cameo/design (maybe a aura), Next the handle type. And your done! Now we get to throwing weapons. Pick the throwing bombs. You throw bombs....(of course) you pick color/design Thats it! -Max
Hmm choosing a starting weapon is a pretty good idea, but I don't think you should get one of each. I would probably see if there was any sort of flamethrower and if not then I would resort to a laser gun.
I think you'll be starting out with a very basic weapon anyway... If the game just gives you all these options right at the start, it'll encourage players to restart thinking that they chose the wrong weapon. It's best to ease the player into the different weapon types carefully so they have a chance to experience and learn what stats do what, and what is important in the long run.
Oh, how about instead of a nice woman, you just pick a gun up while fleeing your home world and start with that? maybe there can be several options but picking up one means the others are picked up by NPC's or something? It'll add an edge of danger to stopping to think over each one too long? Or maybe you can see a few people using guns (to demonstrate how they each work) and then you have time to pick one up and run?
One basic weapon, not "Okay I want a gun." "What kind?" >pistols rifles shotguns machineguns laserguns plasmaguns... Er, I'll take a pistol." "What attachments?" >Attachments that the player is not yet clear on what they do. What is a basic gun anyway? Is a rifle more or less advanced than a laser pistol? The problem here is that the player will get too many choices too early. Even if you gave them the option of customizing -one- gun, that is still a bit iffy since they haven't had any time to see what does what. Just let the player discover their arsenal on the go, that way they can also test it right out and not feel cheated because they realized that they don't like the choices they made. Getting something you dont know anything about is better than having to choose between two things that you dont know anything about.
you SERIOSLY don't understand. basic weapons are sub machine guns, pistol, basic melee weapon's are swords dagger's and clubs. basic tossing weapons are semtex, throwing blades,flash bombs (for enemies that cant stand light.) Also... it tells you what they do, stop makeing acusions ( spelling error....) for things i havnt yet explained.
Look, the only way I can really contribute is by being the dissonant note, making sure that people don't get too carried away with their ideas. Anyway, how about explaining your idea entirely in the first post if you are implying you haven't explained something "yet"? Or maybe you didn't think of it until now? Another thing that I don't agree with: The ship is supposed to be (from what I remember) desolate when you first get there. Probably have to have another way of giving the weapon if its even needed.
You are actually missing Ymedron's point because you are too blinded in thinking that your own is correct, she's saying too many choices too early would lead to people continuously restarting to make a new character to get new stuff because they think they didn't make the right choice. You see this a lot with RPG games in particular, which place too much of character creation before you even know how the game works.
I can see the benefits of this, choosing the weapon that best suits your playstyle at the start. Let's say we only give 3 weapons at the start - a rusty bolt action sniper rifle, rusty sub machine gun and a rusty grenade launcher. I don't think anyone would restart the game just to get a crappy weapon, even if you did find that weapon you first picked to be the wrong choice, you could just loot another weapon type easily.
It would be better if you only got one kind of weapon, and you had to do a quest for it so they don't just give you a weapon. maybe find a few basic materials needed to make that certain weapon, just something you would find on the ship like; metal, or wood.
Nope. Do not want. Just give me whatever, I like to test guns as I get them. That's why I'm such a fan of Borderlands. You never know what you get and that leads for some crazy arsenal combinations.
Do you mean like this? http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?threads/disarranging-reconstructing-weapons.10977/ because i dont understand what you speak about.
