====== World of Guilds ======

===== Cost =====

  * Use patreon to fund the server cost
  * Paypal?
  * Have a page/website dedicated to how many people can play per the donations
  * If you are paying you get prioritization when trying to log on.
  * EVE does in game currency to pay for game time or the player can pay cash for game time
    * game time is encoded as a number letter code that can be sold to someone else

===== Pillars =====

  * Single/co-op story play through
  * Overworld - create your own story, i.e. eve online
    * questing, scavenging, farming, building, waring
  * Overworld - Something akin to animal crossing
  * Overworld - buy/sell/craft anything, closed loop economy
  * Standard MMORPG

===== Names =====

  * Guild quest is taken
  * World of guilds is open
  * guildabran is another option

===== Skills =====

  * general to specialized
  * If you craft something it gives you skills across the board in related crafting
  * But if you continue to craft that something it starts specializing your ability
  * but the general skill peaks for the other items.
  * Spirit Guide, to give you guidance through the game.

===== Attacks =====

  * weapons, spells, etc, are 1-weak, up to 5-strong
  * all attacks can be augmented.
  * Spells are cards, instead of scrolls.  Some art that represents the spell and the description text that tells you what it does.
  * target lock

===== Crafting =====

  * you can buy and sell anything in the game
  * you can craft anything in the game
  * need a closed loop economy
    * things can be created
    * things can be destroyed

===== Limitations =====
  * weight, you can only carry so much
  * but you can get a cart, wagon, caravan
  * you have limited storage.
  * storage, yourself, backpack, cart, wagon, caravan, house, bank
  * everything can be stolen but a bank will be the hardest to steel from
  * repair stuff

===== Activities =====

  * scavenge - search wreckage for stuff.  this wreckage could/should be dead players/npcs stuff.
  * attack npcs
  * traveling consumes energy. sleep, eat, restores
  * quests can be filled before getting a quest, for example. you run across a bandit, kill them, head to the nearest town and see a wanted poster for them
  * ctrl+b to bookmark location on a map...?
  * based on reputation - if low for a city, you can disguise and go un-noticed.

===== Town design =====

  * inner town is patrolled by knights that will keep bad people/animals away
  * outer town is farm/housing knights patrol but sometimes bad people/animals get in
  * just out of town is where bad people/animals may be higher is quantity.  i.e. they hang out to caught people coming a going.
  * also this is a transition zone of vegetation from farm to nature.
  * towns will have a flag denoting faction owners, any town can be owned by any faction, except strong holds
  * towns will be captured by occupying a town same as BF2 capture points

===== Land =====

  * [[https://www.redblobgames.com/maps/mapgen2/|Map Generator]]

===== Things to build =====

  * fence, stone wall, castle wall
  * backpack, kart, wagon, 
  * shed, shack, house, village(town home)
  * town hall, keep, castle
  * catapult, trebuchet, ballista
  * ladder, siege tower
  * small boat, boat, ship, war ship
  * mill(food), forge(smith), (clothing) 
    * these give a boost when crafting


===== Notes from eve =====

  * system is equivalent to town
  * each town has it's own auction house, which creates it's own market
  * traveling between towns cost resources, fuel, time, wear and tear, etc.
  * contracts, one player requests services of another player.
    * contract to request help, help can be from other players or NPCs
    * this help is for defense or faster mining/gathering/hunting/transport