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Virus and Chip Catalog
Topic Started: Apr 5 2010, 07:43 PM (331 Views)
Maxwell Moonlai
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Basically, every virus and every chip should be recorded somewhere on the board for easy access. In the case of viruses, it will explain what they do, where they are found, and what chips they drop. For chips it is what they do and what viruses drop them.

For viruses they will be cataloged by area first, the areas being in alphabetical order. Then, within the area, the viruses will be cataloged in alphabetical order.

For chips, they just need to be in alphabetical order. Since it says what viruses drop them and the virus catalog is by area, that will indicate what area the chips come from.

The virus form should look something like this:

Name: Name of virus
*Level: Determined by area
HP: hitpoints of virus, to keep things simple, it should usually be equal to the damage
Element: Element of virus
Damage: How much damage its attack does
Keywords: What keywords apply to its attack
Attack Description: A description of what its attack does
Dodges: How many dodges the virus has per turn
Chip Dropped: What chip it drops

Name:
Level:
HP:
Element:
Appearance:
Damage:
Keywords:
Attack Description:
Dodges:
Chip Dropped:

And for chips, it should look like this:

Name: Name of chip
Appearance: What it looks like when used
Element: Element of chip
Damage: How much damage it does
CV: How much cv the chip costs
Keywords: What keywords apply to it
Description: A description of what it does
Dropped From: What virus(es) drop it

Name:
Appearance:
Element:
Damage:
CV:
Keywords:
Description:
Dropped From:


*The level of a virus determines how much zenny you receive at the end of the battle if you do not receive a chip. The level is determined by what area the virus is found in. Naturally a virus in the undernet should be a higher level than a virus in ACDCnet. The sum of the levels of every virus you encounter in that battle is the zenny earned.

This catalog is triple-purposed. First of all it makes things much easier for a mod to determine what viruses a player should encounter and what they should earn for winning that battle. Second of all, if the viruses you encounter and the potential chip or zenny you earn are standardized, then there isn't a problem with rewards not being consistent. Finally, this standardization will allow for players to mod each others virus hunts, which will decrease the work load for mods.

Edited by Maxwell Moonlai, Apr 12 2010, 02:33 PM.
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deiexmachinis
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Someone might want to contact Gio. I know for a fact that for the longest time we were doing some sort of chip/virus list. This is all the way back to V.2 when I was a mod.
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Maxwell Moonlai
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I think there may have been one for v3 too, i dont remember for sure
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Norivia
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That eh... never actually got any ground, as I recall. It's kind of a big undertaking, for one. Maybe the best way to do it is to have anyone submit a virus to the catalog, for review by a mod? The benefit would be to them, I would think. For example, if only viruses in the catalog showed up, but there were only mettaurs in the catalog, there'd be a bit more incentive to fill out a form so you can, hopefully soon, get that delicious m-cannon or what-have-you. Same goes for chips, though we'd have to make entries for all the starter-folder ones before we instituted any kinds of rules like that.
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Maxwell Moonlai
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I don't think it would necessarily be that hard, if you just do a little bit at a time.

We would definitely start with the starter chips because those are already designed and available. As for viruses, we would probably start with some common ACDC viruses since that is where everyone will start, and we would catalog any chips related to those viruses that aren't in the starter folders.

If we just sorta do it as we go it really wouldn't be all that hard, it just seems like a lot because there are so many viruses and so many chips.

But ya, i agree that everyone who thinks they can should be involved in this.
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deiexmachinis
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Alternatively, people who submit can get zenny rewards or something. Preferably if they're new and not part of our old-school generation. xD
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