Minerva BETA 1... is GO!

You may have seen postings about Minerva... the game in SL well we are nearly ready for players to start playing but before we do we need some people to help (may pay) jazz it up (we're all scripters not builders or manual writers)

I'm going to paste what the manual has so far to (hopfully) get your waters flowing to what the game is about! Please drop a note here or IM Mister Ambassador (thats me) if you can help in anyway (except scripting thinking thats it finished !!!) YEEE HHHHHAAA

(SHOULD ALSO SAY IF YOU WISH TO VIST PLEASE DO BUT DON'T BUY ANYTHING YET, we're still populating the vendors!) If you do want to buy if you return your goods (mister ambassador) we will refund you!

**** BETA 1 - 5th August 2005

Welcome to Minerva.....

Minerva is a game using the endless possiblieties gien to us from Second Life! The object of the game is entirly up to the player, you may wish to become the richest player (minerva gold) or you may choose to have your own bakers shop selling bread for Linden Dollars! The choice is yours, but other people will effect the way you play the game.

First thing you need is a backpack, you'll find the backpack for sale at the blacksmiths shop at the top of the hill in the village of Minerva. Purchase your backpack and the please wear it! The backpack controls all the aspects of the game and although you may interact with the game without it you will not be able to do anything constructive.

Once you have your backpack the game is ready for you to play. You start off with a backpack that contains 1 peice of gold, 25 units of space, an attack and defence value of 1 and 25 life points. These values are your stats for the game, these can be increased or decreased with events through out the game. You lose one life point every 10 minutes due to natural causes and if it reaches 0 you will die and lose any items within you backpack.

Items are commodities that can be traded within the Minerva game. At present there are 24 items, these are broken up to 3 levels,
BASIC - these items can be found within the world and are mostly naturally occuring, i.e. fish!
ITEMS = these items require to be constructed in a "maker" using BASIC coomoditites. i.e. Bread - (you need grain to make bread)
PRODUCTS = these items also are constructed in a "maker" using ITEMS comoddities .i.e. Steel - ( you need Pig Iron and Limestone)

Basic items are found in locations through out SL! (search the find places for MINERVA)
Here is what we have so far (not within the isle of Minerva)

Cattle Ranch - You can find cattle here
Forest = You can find wood here
Limestone Mine - You can find Limestone here
Charcoal Mine - You can find Charcoal here.

Each of these locations you have to interact with an object to get points (usally touch), once you reach certain points you will get an ITEM commoditiy for free (if there is space in your backpack), to either sell to the shops or sell to other people playing Minerva. So if you fancy life as Charcoal miner you can just hang about the charcoal mine and work away, selling charcoal to other players (you will require to purchase a Minerva Sellor Ball) who may wish to trade or use the charcoal to make a ITEM or PRODUCT but who can't be bothered to mine! or to one of the many computer controled shops through out the game that also buy items direct from players backpacks!

Attacks and Weapons

Everyone starts with a 1 in attack and 1 in defence. This will allow you to attack another AV (who is wearing a backpack) and if you kill them you get all the items they have in their backpack (space in your backpack allowing). With a 1 in attack (assuming the other person has a 1 in defence) it may take many attacks to kill the defender, if they do not kill you). To speed things up you can purchase weapons. To start with there are a few weapons for sale in the weapon blacksmiths in the village of minerva. But these are very expensive, but you may wish to make your own weapons using commidties in your backpack! You will need to purchase a weapon maker and have the correct commodities to make the weapon you wish, once its made you will get it for free! You can then sell that weapon to other players (selling for L$ and/or Gold), hence becoming a weapons merchant! (if you have special weapons you wish to create the please IM Mister Ambassador with your request).

To initiate an attack against another AV then you need to click on the blue part of their backpack. This will assign you the tag of attacker and change your backpack to a Pirates skull and crossbones for a period of time (this period increases with every attack). So if you wish to play the game as a pirate then the more attacks you start the more time the pirate logo will be on your backpack and the more chance other players will run when they see you approach! It does not effect the game play at all, its just a warning to other players!

Once you have clicked on someone elses backpack an annoument will be shouted out tell everyone else a fight has started, some people may rush to aid the defender or may rush to just watch, or whats worse, let you fight away and then attack just as the other (or you) is close to death.

An animation will play depending on the result of the attack, also an annoucment of what damage has been caused. The life points will decrease and that is the end of the attack, if you wish to continue the attack (the defender is still allive) then click again to fight on! Be aware the battles are slightly biased towards the attacker! (if all things being equal) so its best to get your punch in first rather than wait to be attacked!

if one player reaches 0 life points they will die, their stats will remain the same (with the exception of SKILL!) but all commodities within the backpack will be transport to the AV who threw the killer attack! If the AV who wins has not enough space then the items will be lost for ever!

If you have no life points you need to head to either the fishing grounds to catch fish to eat (you'll not be able to make any as you have nothing in your backpack nor can you buy anything as you are classed as dead)! Eating fish (as well as bread or meat) increases your life points! You can not attack or be attacked if you are dead

Attacking other AV's is not allowed in the isle of Minerva or anywhere in the SIM of minerva. Now when we say not allowed there is nothing to stop you but if you break any of the rules of minerva then you may be called to trial in the guild court! If you attack anyone within the NW island (where you start) you risk being banned from the game completly (Mister Ambassador or Markie Macdonald have sole abratration in the NW village).

Interaction with other Players

Minerva is a game, and like all games, there are rules, and if rules are broken then you have to face the music! We ask everyone to enter into the game 100% but we understand there are people who will want to break the rules! Unlike the Lindens we have a judriary that will keep order. If you feel you are being griefed or you see someone breaking the rules then please take a picture and report (via IM) the who what where when to Mister Ambassador! He will try and sort the problem, if he feels the person has a case to answer then he will call on the other person to attend court! To start with the court will be formed of just Mister Ambassador but as the game moves on we hope the 4 guild leaders will meet to discuss the problem and pass on their judgement to Mister Ambassador to implement (from fine to life ban from Minerva), if the other person feels hard done by by the guild leaders he or she may appeal to Mister Ambassador. There is not appeal above Mister Ambassador!

Feel free to purchase anything and start playing. At the end of the beta period (2 weeks) if you return anything to Mister Ambassador you will get a rebate.

Please report any bugs to Mister Ambassador

Rules and manual are still getting added to as is the web site but latest versions can be found at the sign where you TP to minerva

http://www.sl-minerva.com

any questions please don't hesitate to contact Mister Ambassador

also keep an eye out for induction events.....


Cheers

This sounds pretty cool . I'll be sure to check it out next time im in world.