Community GridWide Game

Hi Everyone,

I'd like to create a grid-wide game based on SL weaponry and the game of Assassin.

For example what Assassin is like, check here:

http://www.cs.arizona.edu/acm/assassin/assassin.html

The SL weaponry will speak some open protocol to make the game interesting. The goal will be to shoot at people and be scored in some manner. Extra bonus points for getting Lindens and annoying forum trolls.

The idea is that SL weapons will need to be approved, because, obviously you can create some pretty unfair items.


Once approved, they can be sold as approved (we'll need some kind of trademark or something). After items have been approved, minor modifications may be required in order to make them fair.

The older items will no longer be approved but the new ones will be OK.

Items will approved by a community rather than any particular individuals or groups. I was thinking something along the lines of whoever has the highest 5 scores in the last fortnight gets to vote on item approval and item modifications.

If you want the power you need to prove that you're worthy.

As an extra (but not required!), if you are a player in the group you can also participate PvP style where you're allowed to attack each other with Push weapons, cages, etc etc without fear of abuse reports. I asked Philip if he thought this would be OK, he said sure.. give it a shot.


If anyone is interested in playing or discussing such a protocol for this game, or, heck knows of someone already doing a community based game, please post below.

Note, I realise others have tried to make their own version of this. I am looking for something different, I think, something not controlled by any particular group or individual but rather controlled by the community .. preferably the players in the game.

Oddly enough, Blaze, I was just thinking about something similar to this.

I'm up for it as long as we all dress like Anthony Edwards in Gotcha!

That's a great idea... approved clothing as well

One thing that does occur to me tho, is that all weapons would have to be priced at the same amount, or at least under some amount. No weapon more than 2000 or something.

Otherwise, you could bribe the guys in the top five with free powerful weapons and then price them very very high, so nobody could get into the top five.

Panda, looks like your image got anti-leeched.

Actually, what might be kinda cool is if a percentage of all the profits on the weapons goes to people in the top five.

This will not only reward them, but will also motivate them to approve weapons in such a way that people want to buy different weapons for different situations, rather than one uber weapon that does all.

assuming these wouldn't be pushguns and just something scripted to say "You just blew the head off of so-and-so!" when you shoot them and add points to your score, it sounds like it would be fun

No, they would not be push weapons.

However, non approved weapons could be used in PvP mode, but they wouldn't count towards your score.

Sounds like fun. I have store space in Behrii if you need a shop to sell them from (that's pretty much empty)

I wouldn't mind it too much. But we'd have to tamp down a solid zero-griefing policy.

Sounds great, Burke.

My idea right now, in order to secure it, we'd have to sell via centralized account and then split the revenue towards other accounts. I can't think of another way to guarantee that people don't create abusive weapons which use the protocol.

I think SLExchange has revenue splitting functionality.

I wonder if Merwan would like to run the account in escrow for us all...

I'm bored enough and have a couple virgin alts, I could do it, but i'm busy beating RMAV into submission.

I wouldn't mind making protocol'd weapons for the game.

Sounds like fun. Some kind of small team (maybe 5 members) aspect could enhance it. Either way, nice idea.

I would love to play this, and I would be willing to host a vendor of said items in my store.

If you are talking a paintball type of thing it sounds good to me.
Almost every single thing about your proposal is currently against the TOS though, so good luck with that.

I have for a long time thought that LL should really revise their weapons policy. They use pictures of folks using guns in their own advertisements and the sandboxes are practically "free shooting" zones, yet they are technically banned totally in game except for Jessie?

This is disingenuous at best.

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You can script guns that only affect similar gun wielders. That is a total opt-in system that I think is well within ToS.

Better still, you can combine this with Cubey's (sarcastic) Idea of having Mugger Linden go around taking L$ from players to act as a money sink and have "wounded" players pay to Governer Linden instead of taking "damage" Kill two birds with one stone!

Is there some way that you could use Cubeys combat system? No mess, no pushes, no chance of AR's. Incorporate it into a necklace or ring or whatever, so you can be 'killed' at any time by surprise.

plus then we would have a large number of vehicles already to go with the system......

Yeah, if cubey wants to take the lead on this that'd be cool.

However, he has to relinquish control which I think is the most important aspect of this project. I have no desire, and probably neighter do most independent people, to have some individual or arbitrary clique decides what gets approved and what doesn't.