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In "My little world"

I break away from gaming to try and explain what I want in a game.

John Petersen, Blogger

June 14, 2009

7 Min Read
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"My Little World"

Is a 3D 1st/3rd person world filled with elements of Hunting, Racing, Fishing, Mining, Dry land and Underwater exploration, Research and Development, Crafting and Flying.

 The Look and feel is Not anime/Not cartoony like Free Realms/ Not like WOW... More like a modern day Oblivion or a mix of Anarchy and Project Entropia mixed with FarCry.

It can have a cash shop, but a cash shop is not needed. The economy is self contained. Meaning that everything you need to catch the biggest fish, hunt the biggest animal, drive the fastest vehicles, fly the coolest air vehicles, search the deepest part of the ocean, research everything there is to know, craft the finest gear and clothing, mining the finest resources are all obtainable without the use of a cash shop.

This also means no subscriptions. It is either a F2P game, or an affordable one time game price... If there is a one time game price, I'd say something around $30 downloadable or $50 boxed.

That's 30 mil right off top, because it'll sell at least 1 mil copies right off the bat. "30 Million into a poverty stricken economy"

System specs:

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OS

Windows XP SP 2,Windows 2003 SP 2

Windows 2000 SP 4,Windows98 SE

CPU

Intel Pentium D 915(2.8Ghz),AMD Athlon64-X2 3800(2.0Ghz) more

Intel Pentium 4 2.4Ghz,AMD Sempron 2.0Ghz more

Memory

2GB more

512MB

Graphics

Geforce 6x00, Radeon x600 more256MB more

Geforce FX, Radeon 9600 more128MB more

Sound

AC '97 compatible

AC '97 compatible

Direct X

DirectX 9.0c version or higher

DirectX 9.0c version or higher

Hard Disk

6GB

6GB

It's a big big world... A world as big as Project Entropia...

Starting out is pretty simple, you will get to choose from one home in any one zone you choose and you will be given everything you need to start on the road to aquiring all the homes in the different zones with all the goodies.

For example: If you choose the log cabin home for fishing and hunting, you will be given the home, one gun or bow with a certain amount of ammo to start with, one fishing pole and some type of consumable bait... You will then hunt whatever you're gonna hunt and fish for whatever you're gonna fish for and sell what you can to NPC's or real people for ingame money (credits). Whatever you can't sell, you can possibly use for crafting or auctioning off. You can then use that money to buy whatever you wish. But your best best is to upgrade your equipment so you can get better prizes from better mobs.

Your not gonna catch a 100 lb catfish with 4lb test line on a crappie pole... But you can catch a whole lot of small fish to get ya started.

If you squander your money at the poker tables in one of the big cities or you simply overspend on that "gotta have" gun or Jeep, you'll have to find some other kind of bait to go fishing with, to make more money. I hear hotdogs are a good bait. But grubs are better, just harder to find. You might be able to find things laying around to craft your own bait such as a  bottle cap as a spoon or something.

Regardless of what you do with your money, there will always be a way to make it back... And there will always be a way to lose it.

To get to other cities, you must travel there from your initial choice of home environments. But then you'll still need the credits to buy a home in that particular city. And the credits to get the things you need  to get you going in the zone you want to be in.

For example: I have chosen the log cabin home for fishing and hunting and I have established myself there, and I am exploring out other forms of entertainment and credits such as racing.

I find the Racing city zone and now have to purchase everything I need to start racing in the racing zone.

 First thing I need is a house and a vehicle... I should have made enough fishing and hunting to afford a house and/or a vehicle in race town. Whereever you are there must be a place for the vehicle/s you are driving. No house= No place to store your vehicle. But you may be able to rent a vehicle.

If I can only afford a home, I have four choices. I can buy a car drive it back to my fishing/hunting home, and fish and hunt until I can afford a house to garage the racing vehicle in,

 Or I can buy the racing zone house and race the races in race town in my hunting fishing/vehicle, and possibly make enough money to buy a better racing vehicle.

 Or I can buy the home and then make the trip back and forth to the log cabin to hunt/fish up enough money to to buy a race car, then go back to my racing house with the race car and proceed making money at racing.

Or I can buy the home and rent a racing vehicle. The choice is mine.

 I might happen to find something of worth along the way, I might happen to find alot of things worth alot along the way. Such as off caliber bullets from my hunting guns, or arrows for a bow I never use. Might find tools. Who knows, you might find a pot of gold or a hopped up engine.

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There are cities, much like the ones found in the games Anarchy, Project Entropia, and Oblivion. You may buy a home in each of these cities, you may furnish and decorate each of these homes. Homes are also the storage facility for each of the different zone types. ( the reason I chose those types of cities is because they lag less in those games than other games). But besides that, they are really cool.

 If you are in your Hunting/fishing home you will have rooms and places in rooms for Hunting/Fishing gear, trophies, fish tanks, guns, vehicles, ammo. etc.

If you are at your Deep sea home where you explore the vast underwater depths for treasures and underwater caves that hold rich resources needed to craft other needed things in the world. Your Deep sea home will accommodate that with a Deep sea themed home on or in or under the water.

If you are at your racing home, that home will be themed on racing, you'll have a garage for your cars, rooms for storage and decoration. You can decorate, so there is a place to put your medals and trophies or whatever else.

If you are at your Mining home, it'll be in an area that is most suitable for mining. It'll have the same amount of rooms for storage, tools, and etc for mining. But the house will look like what it's there for... Mining. It could be a make shift house made from a cave.

Your aeronautics home will have a hangar, or be a hangar, a place like all the rest, just with a different theme.

Players can buy extra storage, pictures, furniture, tools etc to use and decorate their homes with. All with credits earned ingame.

Players may take an item from one home to another, if they can get it there. each item will have weight. So if you can't carry it there on your back, you gotta transport it with something that can carry it.

For example: If I want to carry 3 or 4 500 gallon fish tanks to my home where I race from my fishing/hunting home, I need to use a vehicle that can hold that much, a truck might do. But if I want to transport my bass boat to my ocean view  deepsea fishing home I need a vehicle that can transport that much weight in addition  to the boat trailer to carry the boat on. I might have to make several trips back and forth to get all the things I want from one house to another.

Or I can pay someone to deliver it for me. Either an NPC or another real player.

More to come later. Probably a little bit about the mechanics from each zone.

 

 

 

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