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.