I've seen many MUDs with a deity systemd (I think there is a patch for one on the FTP site), and it got me to thinking. The systems generaly have some sort of favor system, in which character's gain favor by killing, sacrificing, or other things that their god looks favorably upon. Then, when the character has enough favor, he can supplicae his god for boons (recall, holy symbol, resurection). These gods, however are always just a part of the code, and have no real life. My idea is a group of player-deities competing for worshipers. These deities would gain a number of points each day (lets call them god-points) for each worshiper they have. However, whenever a worshiper uses his favor for a boon, it costs his deity god-points. The gods would be able to set the amount of favor granted for various things, and the favor cost of boons. Thus, the deities would have to stay competative to gain worshipers, but also keep their prices high enough that they aren't using too many god-points granting favors to mortals. The reason deities would want these god-points would be that they can use immortal commands (at, goto, etc.) but at a god-point cost. It could also be possible that if one accumulates enough god-points one can become a builder or coder. This system gives deities very little level of trust (they can't screw up your MUD at all really) and so this could be part of the progression past 30th level. If you're 30th level there could be a quest to find the holy grail (or some such nonsense) which would promote you to being a deity. Note that builder's and other meta-game immortals would not have worshipers and the like. It would be possible for deities to directly intervene with players, if they are on-line...possibly a prayer command which tells your deity a message the next time they get online. You could ask your deity for a invis spell and he will cast it on you for a certain favor cost, etc. Blaize ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | | Newbie List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/circle-newbies/ | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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