Hello fellow modding community of halo custom edition. As you may know by the clearly stated "glowstick" to the left of me, directly above a chicken which appears to be squatting, my name/alias is glowstick. Why is my name 'glowstick', you might ask. Well, primarily it is because i have an unusual fetish involving swinging glowsticks attached to shoelaces, known as glowstringing, but i also have this name as it allows for my identity to be hidden from those who have other particular fetishes which i will not discuss. Anyway, I believe i have introduced myself enough to be of some considerable value in the modding community.

I have come here with a very snappy and intriguiging idea of a life roleplay. As you may already be aware of, life roleplays are becoming increasingly popular throughout halo custom edition. However, many 'roleplayers' clearly do not have the mental capacity to enter a life roleplay without bursting out the common phrase 'I OWN THE LONGSWORD!!' or 'I OWN THE AIRBASE!' when in reality, believe it or not, people are not simply supplied with a large military base from the distant future. I have recently discovered the clear problem behind this, besides the general age-group of the halo community. The problem appears to be the map availability. Everybody is clearly using rpg beta 6.2 and rpg beta 6 to accomplish life roleplays, however these maps always result in some bored person, with their alias spelled wrong, carpet bombing our gun shops or car dealerships to oblivion.

What we may need is our (hopefully) friendly modding community to attempt to develop a life roleplay map. The life roleplay should have specific restrictions such as no flying vehicles (some vehicles could be taken into consideration, that is for you to discuss) and an acceptable environment in which people can successfully create jobs, such as farming, gun dealing, taxi driving and car dealing. The environment must be open and allow for the halo community to behave in a sensible way (that is: not supplying a HYTAC every corner of the map).

Also, as i was discussing Nick's upcoming map to him, i heard him state that it was possible to add a 'point-system' to the particular map. This gave me the idea that the inclusion of a point system in this specific life roleplay map would be a brilliant idea. It could allow for an economy and for people to realistically earn money without the ongoing hassle over whether that person owns $400000000 dollars or not.

I apologise if this is a particularly bad idea, but i hope that the modding community will atleast consider my idea, and not abuse me for my horrible imagination and lack of intelligence. I am not accusing you of being the problem for any of the bad life roleplays which are growing in today's halo society. Instead i believe you are the solution. Thankyou for reading my rather brief idea, i hope you enjoyed reading.
Edited by glowstick on Oct 25, 2010 at 02:26 AM

Hey bud. If Roleplayers would be willing to move to Open Sauce in the near future I would be happy to provide a Roleplay map with a fairly working points system.

That is, I can provide the features, and possibly a crappily modelled map with those features.

It doesn't sound like a bad idea but thats just personally. Life RPs are getting fairly common around Halo CE but there are already city maps out there like for example:

1. city 2002
http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=3313

2.Vertigo City original beta v4.5
http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=2054

I mean Mombasa maps are being used at the moment and for the meantime while someone or yourself can come up with a newer and more fitting map i say promote the ones that are already here. They might even give you ideas you haven't thought of yet for a more suitable and dedicated life RP map.

Thankyou for your reply. I do agree with you to some extent ricola reaper. The problem i see here is still the availability for players to run off and steal a motorbike then go on a crazed shootout before being yelled at.

i just wished there were more maps with realism in it for life roleplays. I myself have successfully organised a life roleplay with currency (everybody started with $5000) and i organised who does what (alot like communism or dictation, i know, but it was only for organisational purposes and to keep the full experience going throughout the game). we had specific restrictions like the airbae being out of civilian hands because of it primarily being existant for military purposes. We had taxi driver, banker, car dealer, gun dealer, drug dealer, police force and a hospital. other people were hired to do jobs for the car dealer such as bring in more vehicles etc.

i would like a map where all of these jobs can be available but without the hassle of forcing everybody out of a vehicle, or telling them that they can't infact own the prowler. I know i may seem strict when it comes to life roleplay but i believe roleplays are purely successful on whether it was well organised or not.

i have been banned from joe's life roleplay, probably because he can't comprehend the definition of organisation. But i would like more server's to become available, and i will try suggest the maps which you have displayed to the halo community. So thankyou for offering your opinion.

I'm sorry to say that if there are vehicles in the map then somebody is going to act stupid somewhere so trying to avoid kicking them out every few minutes or so is going to be nearly impossible.

There is always going to be some aspect of a map that people will want to go to and you need to come up with an idea of whether you want to make that place centralized or not. Say make a town hall, it would be detailed, people would want to go there because of the detail and all around open area inside of the building, and it suits the Life RP because its easy to get to, and you can assign jobs from there.
Edited by ricola_reaper on Oct 25, 2010 at 01:11 PM

ODST nick is currently working on this.

This kind of reminds me of the half life RP's you would select a job before playing and go around getting money to buy stuff, like a house, and the Server would rember your hash or something and save all your data to that server. If we can accomplish this im sure CE would be on the top 10 most played game again.

There's a way to save player's hashes, but the problem is getting a player number based on their hash...

maybe an app built into the server istself? kind of like how Sean's stat tracker works he was testing. it would show the rank of people in the server.

Exactly, but it would be an add-on, and specific to only 1.09 because there's just no way to stop people from cheating the system if they are all using the same cd key hashes.

but isnt everyone's hash different?

Not if they are using a certain 10 keys and playing on 1.00

so see we would have to make it a 1.09/.08 server function only.

Exactly.

i have been banned from joe's life roleplay, probably because he can't comprehend the definition of organisation. But i would like more server's to become available, and i will try suggest the maps which you have displayed to the halo community. So thankyou for offering your opinion.


My:Response: actually you have bbeen unbanned for a month plus i am actually veary orgnised and you were a great banker but ive never seen you back try rejoingi sometimw


And yes nick is working on a LIFE RPG MAP itl be soon so if your reading this glowstick com to the server and ull see.
and also i am working on it with him
Edited by TES_joe on Nov 28, 2010 at 02:09 AM