Quote:Original post by TechnoGoth
Well basically you don't go on these dangerous missions yourself you send a remote drone instead. Drones cost money to build, equip and maintain. The equipment you give a drone determines what it can and can not do on a mission. So if a drone is destroyed during a mission you have no choice but to build a new one. So one of my concerns is that players might get a little upset if they just invested a million credits into building the most advanced drone money can buy, only to have it destroyed on a mission where the reward is only 10,000 credits.
As to how long a mission can take well I'm not sure I do think they will take maybe 5 to 30 minutes? I'll have to play test and find out.
I think you misrepresented your game in your first post. The first post made it sound like you were supposed to charge into the zombie warehouse. Then, the game would suck. The only strategy is to run in, expecting to die, but learn where the first couple zombies are. Then, you run in, kill those zombies, learn where the next couple are, die. Then, you run in, kill the first zombies, kill the second zombies, find where more zombies are, die. Then, you run in, get killed by the first zombies, die, uninstall game. Like those old Contra games.
Now, you're saying that the intention isn't to run right in, but to be sneaky. Here, you don't want to be seen. Here, you get maps and guard schedules. Here, you get all the things you would need to properly stealth your way to success. Now it sounds more stealth, less shooter.
As for the losing a drone thing. I have three thoughts, and I think the three together are better than one alone:
1) That's the risk. A more expensive, more gadgets drone probably has a better chance of succeeding, but is a more costly failure.
2) Make drones cheaper. Make it so they are fairly expendable, but you wouldn't want to lose many of them.
3) Don't let the player make the ultimate drone. Make him make trade offs. You can only install so many gadgets. This, with the previous one, means that you may need a significant investment because you may need to send more than one drone in to complete the mission.