Mega Man RPG Prototype Game Development

Brorman is kind of right - right now you can only have one of any robot in your game, so if you wanted to trade with someone and you got a duplicate robot, it would just overwrite your current one (or vice versa). I guess I could think about allowing multiple copies of a robot, but that would require a lot of big code-changes and I'm not sure if it's worth it.

That being said... maybe there are other thing we could trade or "gift" to other players? Maybe battle points? Maybe items? Maybe something else in the future? I do like the idea of having some kind of connection to the other players and some kind of economy so I'll absolutely think about it (it would be really nice to help your friends, as you said) but for right now I'm not sure how/if it would work. :S

I say make an overall limit for the number of robots a player can have (say...33? It's the current max anyhow).

I think you've said before that you want to incorporate a shop in the prototype later on. I'm thinking it should sell items, special power-ups that can only be bought (not dropped by enemies), alternate character color schemes and other little secrets. To buy items you pay with your battle points (if possible).

Speaking of items, are we ever going to see the coveted 1-UP make an appearance in the game? If a bot goes down in battle it would be interesting to see a teammate/opponent make a comeback.

Thanks again for all your suggestions guys, they will definitely be taken into consideration. :)

@MegabossMan : I have to add a few more mechanics to the game before Ballade's second form can make an appearance, but I'd like his second form to function like other second forms in the original series in that he "transforms" once you deplete his Life Energy to zero. There's a slim chance I'll make it work as an ability instead - maybe transforming back-and-forth between forms each time you use it and maybe each one excels in a certain stat or something? Kind of like a (reversible) Mega Evolution in Pokemon? We'll see...

@MMX100 : Yes, I definitely still want to add the shop and if not Battle Points then Bolts/Screws will be the currency of choice. I think alternate costumes would be fun, as would a few more types of items and obviously support robots and shop-only abilities. That being said, there are already 8 different items available in the prototype including the 1-UP, it's just that it's a pretty rare drop that can usually be found on event stages (like the rival missions or the final destination stages). It (and the other super-rare item) appear very infrequently, but they ARE in the game. :)

what are the 8 items?

@Mega Man: Energy Pellet (20% life), Weapon Pellet (20% Weapon Energy), Energy Capsule (40% life), Weapon Capsule (40% WE), Energy Tank (full life), Weapon Tank (full WE), Yashichi (full life/WE) and Extra Life (revives a fallen robot with full life/WE). Can be obtained from the fallen enemies. Use in battle, 'Items' section. Every item can be used on the 1 robot, you can select that robot manually.

*This Post has parts that include the game. Read the website part of my suggestion here (read this part first, as the website part adds onto this).*

I Was thinking, what if we, the fans, could create our own sprites skins for the game?

Basically, an extra skin could be applied onto our robot masters, and wouldn't do anything special besides changing the appearance of the Robot Master. For instance, people can decide whether to use the ORIGINAL Metal Man sprites, or we could use the V2/V3 Metal Man sprites.

Of course, the sprites would need to be examined by Adrian and his staff before letting it be an official skin, but it would be nice to see extra skins for those who don't really like how some robot masters look.

More (Or at least more functional) reasons to play as each player character.

I understand that right now, we don't have any choice as to who tackles what mission, but as I understand it, the finalized version of the game will give us that choice. The three Doctors share their Robot armies (They can be passed back and forth) as well as their weapons technologies (One can give a Robot a Player-specific weapon, then pass them to another Player, and they will keep that weapon—my Roll was once equipped with the Wily Buster & Disco Buster on the Light team). Presently, the only real thing to compel you to put [x Robot] on [y Player] are the meager stat bonuses: Robots with their aligned Player receive a flat 25% stat bonus (Light's being Defense, Wily's being Attack, and Cossack's being Speed), and Robots away from their aligned Player get a bonus to their EXP, much in the same way traded Pokemon do.

Is this really enough incentive to play the Robots with a certain Player? Not from my perspective, it isn't.

Possible Solutions:
> Make it so that at least some (If not more than some) abilities can only be used when the Robot is with a certain Player (e.g., Mega Man can only use Super Adaptor when with Dr. Light).
> Add some form of abilities used by the Player themselves (e.g., Light might summon Eddie to give an item to the active Robot, which they use immediately).
> Make Robot/Ability transfers less painless. (Admittedly not the best option)

Excellent ideas and I will absolutely consider them all. I love the skinning idea and we could take it in all kinds of fun directions for sure. Maybe that's how we'll get all these other fan characters in that people keep requesting? :P

And about the player purposes, I completely understand where you're coming from. I'm constantly trying to think of new ways to differentiate their campaigns while still allowing for a lot of flexibility and I think you've given me some fabulous ideas.

Another possibility I've been mulling over (maybe in addition to what you've mentioned) is having player-specific post-game robot masters. Right now all the post-game ones show up randomly regardless of campaign, but I think it might be fun if (like Pokémon) Jewel Man only appeared in Light's campaign and Crystal Man only in Cossack's etc. etc. Because all the other robots will eventually be unlockable in a way tied to encountering them in battle, I think that might be a fun reason to play them all.

Also note that each campaign has different starting levels for the mission, so depending on the level of robot you're trying to train it might be more helpful to use Light's campaign with its lower levels of Cossack's with it's super-high ones. But yeah, I really like your ideas and I think player abilities might be pretty cool. :)

First off, Pharaoh Shot sounds to me like the same thing as the Player Busters, except it does less damage and doesn't boost your stats. Even considering the super effective feature, it seems bland.

Secondly, there's some types that don't seem to have a lot going for them. For example, the number of Nature-cored robots and Nature-type abilities is...very small, even considering the RMs/abilities that haven't been made. What you could do here is:
a.) Make more abilities, possibly even separate from the RM Level-up system (the way you would unlock this could be anything; certain # of BP, buying it at a store, password-exclusive, etc.)
b.) Make RM cores more diversified (i.e Nature/Missile HORNETMAN COUGH COUGH). This would give the Nature RMs the ability to equip more, well, abilities, and not be stuck with loading on all nature abilities. Unfortunately, that would also open up RMs with an already high number of compatible abilities to EVEN MORE, so that may not work out :/.

I find Pharoah shot to be a very powerful move myself.


Doing the second thing would help the game more diverse, but like you said some robots would get SO many moves. The game is in prototype though so who knows what could happen. Adrian will have an answer soon(probably) Fun fact: The stardroids were going to be dual_type.

Personally, I feel like a shop would be a good idea. Like, enemies/robot masters could drop bolts, and you could use those bolts for stuff like energy capsules, weapon energy, 1-Ups, pretty much anything you could find in the average Mega Man 7-10 shop.

Also skins could be bought at the shop, and maybe some special robot masters that are event exclusive? (Because everyone loves holiday events and limited-time stuff)

For Christmas, we could get shotgun ice for Ice core robots!

Color Ball (Color Man/Wacko Man's Weapon) for Easter maybe?

Dark Hold for Halloween perhaps? You know we need to start a thread about this.......

Done. http://rpg.megamanpoweredup.net/community/general/311/holiday-weapons/