Hi Dark, Yeah, basically what I'm thinking of doing is using a stats system similar to an RPG game were each wrestler has basic stats like agility, strength, endurance, luck, whatever that determines how much of a beating he or she can stand before they can be pinned or submit to a submission hold or how much of a beating they can dish out to an an aposing wrestler. Something like strength is pretty self-explanitory. How much strength a wrestler has will help him/her pull off body slams, suplexes, and any other takedown that requires upper body strength. Somebody like Hulk Hogan obviously has a high strength rating as he has a proven record of slamming big monsters like Andre the Giant, King Kong Bundy, and Big Show. Guys wwith weight well over 400 pounds plus. However, not everyone has that high a strength rating and somebody like Jim Duggan might not be able to pull off a body takedown like a slam and will have to resort to agility and use somethinglike a single leg takedown or double leg takedown to try and use the wrestler's weight against him to drop him/her to the matt.In other words use moves like leg takedowns and arm drags that work against the person you are wrestling because the heavier he/she is the easier his/her weight will count against them. So this stats system will definitely add a strategy element to your game.
Then, each wrestler will have a skill set. There are a handful of basic skills such as arial, brawling, dirty, submission, technical, etc that will determine what kinds of moves your wrestler can do. For example, If your wrestler is a face, a good guy, his dirty skill rating will either be 0 or very low. Meaning if you try a dirty move you might end up getting disqualified from a match, because face wrestlers aren't suppose to cheet. However, if you are playing a heel, a bad guy, he might have a high dirty skill rating and can get away with chokes, eye pokes, face rakes, or using a foreign object as a weapon when the reff's attention is focussed on the manager or somewhere else but the match. That's cheating, but that's usually how heel wrestlers play. They play dirty and mean. However, in the main you'll want to select a skill set of legal moves you can use often. Someone like "Macho Man" Randy Savage is an arial fighter. His trademark skills are areial type moves like flying elbos, knees off the second rope, flying dropkicks, are legendary in the WWE. So if you were playing Randy Savage his highest skills would be in the arial/high flying moves. Of course, they are high risk moves because if the aponent isn't stunned before you try a move like that those moves can backfire by landing on the matt face first with nobody home, land on a guys raised knees, or get caught in mid air and body slammed to the matt for your effort. That's exactly what happened in Wendi Richter's title match with Lani Kai. For example, in the now legendary 1985 Wrestlemania match between women's champion, Lani Kai, and challenger, Wendi Richter, Lani Kai made a huge tactical mistake in the ring. She thought Wendi Richter was stunned, so she climbed to the top rope, and tried to pull off her trademark move, the flying splash, and it backfired. While in mid air Wendi Richter caught Lani, and used her own momentum to turn her flying splash into a huge powerslam to the mat. While she was stunned Wendi Richter pinned Lani Kai and won the WWF Women's championship for the second time. So that's an example of how a high risk arial move can go horrably wrong in the heat of action before you know what hit you. As I said before this game will definitely require stratagey. You have to learn how to play to your wrestler's advantages, skills, without ending up like poor Miss Lani Kai in the process. If you are playing an arial fighter you might want to have a secondary skill like brawling just to beat down the aponent, wear them out, before trying any kind of high risk arial moves. Cheers! On 4/18/11, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: > Hi tom. > > well if technically a single wrestler is easier that makes sense, and I > admit I'd like the idea of the career mode being from the perspective of a > wrstler I create. > > However, there might be a compromise. For instance, instead of letting the > user create custom moves for their wrestler, let them choose only from the > number of moves already in game (if your creating so many wrestlers, this > should give lots of choice). > > ditto for Ai if the ai is based on basic probabilities and stats, --- either > that or as I said one must fall did, create a number of ai styles someone > could choose for a custom wrestler, for instance if I remember my wwf > correctly, sergeant slaughter most often fought very aggressively and with > use of submission holds like the cammel clutch, where as someone like texus > tornado relied more on fast movement and agility, with lots of ground based > attack maneuvers like the irish whip and his own tornado move. > > If a player wanted a custom wrestler who fought like sergeant slaughter, > they could select ai type aggressive submission, where as if they wanted a > fast wrestler like texus tornado they could select the ground based agile > style. > > if this goes beyond technical considderations or what you'd like in the > game, fair enough, though i'm stil glad you'll be letting us create at least > our own main character as the case goes either way. > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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