Short answer: no
Long answer: yes
Okay, guys. I need a little bit of guidance on where to take to his game I want to make. It is a simple game about evolution. I feel the meta is too crowded by the same game formats and copies of games that already exist, so why not something else for a change?
It is inspired by Spore, SALRE, and TF2. Players will be able to get different body parts and each of those will have different advantages and disadvantages, such as a long neck that significantly reduces your speed but also allows you to reach to treetops for food.
I will post some updates here as I go about making the game. I dunno where I am going with it, really.
The Info About the Poll
Here is what the selections mean.
Option 1: In this possibility, there would be 2 roles a player can choose to be when they (re)enter the game. Either being a predator, or being prey.
This can make a meta more stable, but that may actually be detrimental in a game about evolution. Also everyone would want to be predators.
Option 2: This is a wider version of the option above. It means that the predator and prey will break down into carnivore, scavenger, grazer, browser, omnivore, frugivore etc.
This can make for more varied gameplay, but with the 100 player hardcap and cross niche pressure such as predation, I am afraid most will converge into a few of them overral.
Option 3: Would remove alot of frustration from my back. Especially the prey.
But I have firsthand experience with what happens when there are only predators in a habitat. They will compete ruthlessly until there is eventually one, cosmopolitian species left on the map. Which, while within reason as evolution is blind, is booooriiiing.
Option 4: Just ditching any responsibility. Essntially going through he same path as Spore did. Whittled down until it its not what it is.
No meta to build, since there is no ecosystem. But will most likely be booooriiiing.
Option 5: Just do it TF2 style. Add larts with different statistics, with up and downs. Since a part, with having both ups and downs, will certainly be better in some situation then others, and worse in something else.
Such as hooves. Something like +25% speed and -10% stamina reduction, but -50% swimming and autmatically useless for grasping and tree climbing. This part will suit a grazer living in a prairie, but it will be useless to a monkey analogue.