How to fix WildWest

I want to state that myself and many other players have played since the beginning and I have talked to newer player along with them. I think this would really help Wild West become Brawls glory again. First off, our goal for a server is to make it fun and interesting. Not try our best to make it how we imagined it or how it was mean't to be and stick to it. Yes that would make sense and ended up happening anyway, but the player base went down anyway. So this is how I think the server would get a lot more players.


PvP attracts the player! Not Processing!!!

At the moment the majority of players time is processing. That is just... no... Why is a servers main activity encourage being afk? That is ridiculous. We should be encouraging risk and PvPing. Players need to spend time hunting other players and getting into gun fights.

First we need to fix three things. Economy, PvP, In game Roles.
So let's start with the easiest of the three, the PvP

PvP is pretty simple since it is just shoot and drink medicine on occasion. Simple and fast. So Let's look at the standard gear for it.

Diamond armor - 32.7k Per set
Yea... no that is too much. You make around 30k every 30 minutes processing. Which if you don't put much thought into it seems like a lot... BUT there are issues. Not talking about traveling time. Just general interruptions. Sheriffs, other players, or just accidentally walking out of range. Increase that time to 45 minutes. So within 45 minutes doing nothing but sitting still, You still can't afford the best gear yet and you aren't still guaranteed to succeed. Oh yea, that isn't including weapons. So let's get into those too.

So the most standard gear for weapons are the Model and T-G.

Model - 6k
T-G - 13k

Together that is 19k on top of that 33k. Yet you can't PvP yet. You still need ammo, around a stack for each gun is the minimum. Adding another 3k to the price. That equals out to around 55,000 G per PvP set. So that is only two trips right? Well how much time do you need to sit still not doing anything to get this gear? Pretty close to and hour and a half. How long will you keep this gear?? Let's see!

If you get into a fight with another Diamond guy. The odds of you winning are normally against you unless you got the full set. So both players will have spent 60k on the gear including the potions. T-G's can kill you with one shot due to a glitch so that is 2 seconds. The Model can kill you in 3-4 good placed hits. That is 6 seconds. That seems very short. Of course there is the time of you healing and not dying right off the bat. Most fights last 3-7 minutes. That isn't long enough...

How do we fix this? By lowering the amount of PvP gear cost so we spend less time standing still doing nothing. If diamond armor was around 10k a set again and weapons and ammo cost around 13k together.
You are spending 23k a full set. That is per trip! Still standing still for 45 minutes or so, but that must be worth it right? No... the numbers I am using are from Wild Grass. The most profitable drug in Wild West. That is not what we should be assuming all players use. If you want players to get punished and go to prison for doing that, then assume we mine. How much do you make from mining? 10k and hour. That isn't really realistic. Mining is supposed to be safer but yet I see players die more from mining that from drugs? Why are mining camps PvP enabled? Aren't they supposed to be safer? You are in a trapped cave basically and have to run past an enemy if they come for you. Sooo why is it considered safer?

I say we try to balance the amount of time standing still vs. Time PvPing. We don't want it to be even just to where we don't have to stand still for hours to actually start playing the game.



Now the Most contradicting subject. Sheriffs!

One thing about sheriffs is that they need their Prot I iron armor back. People complained that they were OP because they kept coming back and would either kill or arrest you before you could finish processing. So to fix it you removed the enchantment. Why? Why make it harder for sheriffs? Instead make it balance. Just add a new rule for sheriffs, hey if you die at a rebel base, you can not go back for such time or it is considered camping.

Also handcuffs. There needs to be a timer on these. While handcuffing someone they can't move or deal damage just as if they were already cuffed, but instead of just right clicking once, you have to hold it down for 3 seconds. It promoted more stealth and caution. While encouraging a gun fight if needed.

Now for killing sheriffs, all we get is a useless head. There needs to be a reward for killing them.


Now for the worst part of the thread... Economy... oh gosh... winter is coming...


ECONOMY

Wild West needs an average income. Something that will provide a decent amount so players can play without worrying about not being able to actually PLAY the server. So I decided to come up with a way to decide prices for gear. There should be a Base line income. What in the server has a decent income?
These are how to make money from least to most.
You should assume that most players will try for the last two or three.

Mining
Tobacco
Shrooms
Poppy
Coco
Wild Grass

So if we can safely assume that the base line is either poppy or Coco is the average income. Poppy cost 14G at the moment and if you process a normal run, you are getting pretty close to 10,000 in almost the same time as Wild Grass. That is only two methods down! So we should assume that players make 10,000 an hour on the server period, right? No... remember interruptions! I think it would be safe to assume that most players can safely make 8,000 an hour on average.

So let's try to fit that into prices. You want to make us do two trips to earn Op gear? Here you go!


8,000 = Full OP gear!?

Honestly with how much rent is and how much people spend on horses now a days. That is actually pretty good! Now let's knock some little issues out of the way.

Eil! the most richest player on the server has over 4 Million G's!! So 8,000 is pretty much nothing to him. Well that is true but he would be one of the few players to be able to afford the 550,000 house! Seeing as there is very few of them, he could easily afford it and keep it for a while. That means a lot of storage and a lot of diamond armor being throw into PvP. Meaning more fun and it will be a loop! That is the general idea.

Note only 8 players have over 1 millions G's so it really isn't an issue.


Now for my server ideas!


Random Boxes - Random Boxes are dropped by Sheriffs and Players. These Boxes have Wild West Premium horses and Insane Gear (Protection Diamond). So to open these you go and buy a Server wide opener. When a player buys the Opener, anyone who wants to open these Random boxes may do so at this time, but each player can only open two per Opener. (I hope this is compliant XD)


Renting horses - Players should be able to rent empty horses to another player for X amount of time. This will promote a bit more money transferring and give a little tastes of those Premium horses to newer players.

Another role would be interesting but I myself don't like this idea a lot of the players seem to like the idea of it. A bounty hunter of sorts. This role should be something you can achieve by going to the bank and accepting the role for X hours or so. You can not harm non Rogue players and sheriffs are not allowed to arrest you. Heads are worth x10 more when you sell them. (When you kill a player as Bounty Hunter you get his head and instead of it being a normal head it will say Ex: "ChickenPutty's Head - TheMafias". Only you can sell that head and only will it be x10 if you kill them as a bounty hunter.

So yea... I hop this helped



NOTE: I don't expect a whole set of PvP gear to cost 8k. That was just to throw some realistic numbers around. I really expect a full set to be closer to 20k

 

PvP is the main part of the game. All I need to say is only way to make money minus conductors are in PvP areas. You are going to get into a fight no matter what due to Bandits and Drug lords.

 

As long as someone likes the way it is.