Weather effects + Bosses
 

Going on a idea streak, so bear not bare with me.

The map needs a weather system. Weather effects can still be turned off to reduce the device lag, if your device is older. Since people are having trouble being able to figh the blob at swamp, this would be a great solution.

Rain, and The Baddy King

Randomly rain at: Graal City, Balamb, and Belle.

When the rain starts, it means that a boss of some sort is about to spawn at belle, after Graal City sign, or the place (which needs a name) before swamp.

Flashes of lightning will indicate that the boss has spawned in these locations.

Would be cool if the knights start to leave graal city to fight the boss (don't actually go fight it. They just take formation at the city sign.)

Fog and the Giant Blob at Swamp & Maybe a Giant Rat/Dullahan for Deadwood

Fog, mist starts at: Swamptown, and Deadwood (if they are going to keep it).

When the fog starts = boss is about to spawn.

The fog starts small, and when it suddenly gets very dense a Giant Blob/whatever they pick for deadwood will spawn.

Sandstorm at Destiny and the Scorpion/Giant Lizardon

Small sandstorm randomly starts picking up at Destiny, maybe Big City as well.

Sandstorm gets heavier, boss spawns.

Blizzard at Snowtown and The Giant Yeti/Snowman

Snow starts falling.

Snow + wind for snowstorm, and boss spawns.


Questions, comments, concerns?

Liking your "idea" streak! I'd like to see this happen but with the current amount of players it'd be to laggy and the server would crash a fair bit

This was mostly just for some cool weather effects to give more life to the map, people can disable if they want to. Plus the weather would indicate that a boss will spawn soon in that certain area.

From now on keep these posts in the Future Improvements section please x.x (already moved it for you)

http://www.graalians.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=26

:p sorry colin (Aguzo did it on purpose, because Aguzo is evil.)

Love the idea's you come up with tbh.

Thanks man, feedback like this gives me the reason to not be lazy, and try to speak up for new content. Even if staff might not add, it makes me not give up on the game's future.

This is great actually.

This would improve classic a hell load, but again - lag is the reason we can't have nice things.

I came up with a similar thread a while back that involved possible boss implementation - the replies are more interesting than the concepts I proposed: http://www.graalians.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19856

I agree with this to some extent due to the lag it may cause + scripting complications. That is why Graal Classic is subtly releasing these NPC's into the world, but on a much smaller scale. (examples include bandit leader and flaming blob)

The weather system is a good idea, but shouldn't serve as an indicator for boss spawns. It should remain aesthetic so that players with older devices are not left at a disadvantage. Off-topic, but what Graal Classic needs is a day & night system.

Half of the suggestions on here are dismissed because "it would cause too much lag" no matter how good they are :(

I like the idea
I would put the "giant rat" in railord or a giant bat or whatever There is so much idea we could get (a dullahan would be a bad one tough)

basically what i'm seeing is make more blobs (pk mobs = lag) and make useless weather (lag) which people would get tired of in like 1 hour. also the weather is only directing people to participate in the lag mob. so basically you are trying to blow up the server with an idea that would only make the noobs who actually participate in this blob-killing happy.

Everytime i read any of your posts, my mind just goes wtf.

The weather can be turned off for "lag", people won't get tired of random weather generation.... It gives the world life. Ever played minecraft? Zelda games have it as well.

Calling people "noobs" for participating in something that you don't is ridiculous. I don't participate in blob killing, but I would if blob lasted more time, and I didn't need a friend to pm me that the blob has spawned, nor would I have to wait at swamp for hours.

yes people do get tired of weather generation. i have played minecraft, whenever it starts raining i get pissed off and want it to stop.

i didn't say people are noobs for participating in blob killing, but the people who kill the blobs are all noobs.
EDITED THIS IN: go watch a blob die, everyone killing it is a noob, this is what i mean to make it easier to understand.

never go on an "idea spree" again please all of the pro players i talk to are just laughing at these threads lol

I really don't care if your friends laugh at my threads or anything. Making fun of others or their ideas is not going to help the game get any better. Kill a blob = nub? Right... You have the option to do whatever you want in the game. Try again.

Weather effects will just cause unnecessary lag to the server. Yeah, it may seem cool at first but once people start freezing and lagging they'll just turn it off. So really no point.

I wrote that post because I am allowed to express myself on the forums.
If I wanted to joke around with colin, I have that option. No need to be serious on every post.

As for the weather effects being unnecessary, of course they are. But still, it can be added, and if you don't have a newer device, then you still have the option to turn it off. People who have newer devices will just benefit from it. Would be wrong to make people who are spending money on better hardware limited, because of others.

I don't get how people will benefit from it. Oh and im on a 6+ and still freeze bro so wht are U tryin 2 say

Do you have tile animations on? I think that's what it's called. I have an air 2, so not sure if it might just be your device. Might not be optimized yet.

My tile animations off. I freeze more on my 6+ than my old 5s so idk.

I have an iPad Mini which was released in 2012 and it never freezes.

Definitely due to the iphone 6 not being fully optimized.

Here is a scoreboard of the ios devices.
https://browser.primatelabs.com/ios-benchmarks

You can see how the air 2 is a beast in the ios category, especially in multi-core. I have never frozen, and have all options on, even if were fully zoomed out, no lag. Only lag would be from the server, and sometimes my own connection.

a boss would put your gameplay in single player

In normal games yeah :0

You should ask him who these "pros" are, so if you happen to beat them in pk or spar you can accidentally hit ctrl+L :)

Don't worry about the "too cool for school" crowd they too cool for the forums too. That's why they're not here presenting us with all their great ideas.

Too school for cool m8.

These ideas are awesome, loving the npc interaction idea. The giant lizardon would have to obviously be just a giant lizard on all 4's so I'm also looking forward to that, maybe in the lizardon cave. The rain sounds awesome, Id love to see some weather effects besides clouds and snow in graal.