If BYOND were a monopoly board, where would the games fall?

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Jan 26 2009, 11:15 am
After a long hiatus from coding on BYOND, I recently decided that I should try to get back into it and design a game, or emulate one. In the end I think I have decided on Monopoly, it would be fun to have an updated, functional version of this board game classic.

Following in the board game's footsteps, I realized that if something like this were to be succesful that a version comprised of BYOND properties would be a fun variation to include. My question is, what would be the best way to split that games, and which ones would be the best to include?

If you are familiar with a Monopoly Board then you will know that there are 22 "normal" properties, 4 "railway" properties, and two "Utility" properties. This is how I was thinking of breaking them down, in order of price:

First 2 Properties - Dragonball Z Fangames, using 2 examples of Fangames in BYOND's past that have broken borders.

Next 3 Properties - Naruto Fangames, using 3 examples of Naruto Fangames that have broken borders.

I have placed the two most popular anime genres in the "Slum" section of the board, as they would be the cheapest to purchase as sources for these games types are easilhy accesible on BYOND.

Next 3 Properties - Various Anime Fangames (I wanted to try and avoid this, but finding "acceptable" games is hard.) For this area, I am thinking of 3 completely different anime games that are examples of decent programming. IE. Death Note Online.

Following 3 Properties - Strategy Games, this is simple enough. There are quite a few good examples of strategy games on BYOND.

The second "row" on a Monopoly Board usually represents Middle-Class properties, on the BYOND Board this is represented by these choices. Although I love Strategy Games, they have some of the lowest player bases on BYOND.

The third "row":

First 3 properties - BYOND Action Games, games that accurately represent the genre of action.

Following 3 Properties - Original BYOND Games, games that are not based on anything that have had large player bases.

These properties seem apropriate for the "middle class" of Monopoly.

Fourth "row":

First 3 properties - I'm not quite sure yet, hence the asking. Possibly RPGs?

Last 2 - These are supposed to represent the most expensive properties. I was thinking the two most influential games in BYOND history, if those are even easy to figure out.

So yeah, thats the basic idea. If people are interested in helping with the design and the such, all help is appreciated.
Jan 26 2009, 3:18 pm
MLAAS, HRH, Incursion, etc. Were pretty important BYOND games, if I do say so myself.
Jan 26 2009, 7:28 pm
In response to Ter13
Ter13 wrote:
MLAAS, HRH, Incursion, etc. Were pretty important BYOND games, if I do say so myself.

Agreed, though my favorite BYOND game is Typing Program of Everlasting Bloodshed and Death.
Jan 26 2009, 8:56 pm
In response to Giiji
Wheres the chat programs? Chatters, Chatty, Chat, Converse, and wiz_chat all settled as homes for the chat community over the years.

A majority of popular games on BYOND were brainstormed in these very chat giants!
Jan 27 2009, 8:46 am
In response to Evi of au
I was thinking of chat games at the utilities of the BYOND Monopoly Board, either that or the railroads.
Jan 27 2009, 12:30 pm (Edited on Jan 27 2009, 12:54 pm)
I insist that the absolute cheapest property be Elation.DBZrelegr8. Relegr8 was, at one point, the highest ranked game on BYOND, and enjoyed a sizable player (can you call them players?) base. To this day, it remains an influence on many BYOND projects. It was prominent, original, influential, still accessible, and cheap!

Also, libraries would make great properties or railroads. Deadron.XML would be a good property, as would LummoxJR.DMIfonts.

As for the most expensive games, Gakumerasara.FinalFantasyOnline certainly deserves the spot normally taken by Park Place. At any given time FFO has between 25 to 65 players online, taken from a pool of a couple hundred active players and many more casual players. Though its player count is surpassed by some other BYOND games, no other BYOND game matches FFO in terms of presentation. When playing FFO, you forget that you're playing a BYOND game. FFO is also a very long lived project, to the extent that I cannot think of another game which has been continuously active and updated besides LummoxJR.Incursion (which deserves a spot at least in the green section). As I post this, the game is experiencing one of the scheduled reboot crashes (which keep the game stable by crashing it at regular intervals) while 38 people have added their names to the hub's waiting lists.

You're selling Strategy Short, by the way. There are several great games that I would place no lower than the red section, such as Flick.ManoAMano and BenG.Breakthrough. If you want to keep the groups together by genre, then I'd make the yellow section strategy, headed by Incursion, then Mano A Mano, then AceBloke.Wargames. (Though I like Breakthrough more than the other three, I can't argue that it is more prominent or influential).

~~ Sackomamma