[lojban] Re: Ranking system? (I'm a level X Lojbanist)

[Lindar <lindarthebard@yahoo.com>]

I'd just like to point out that this is an idea party. Feel free to
contribute your ideas and throw around concepts just for fun. I -
don't- want to make a 3D hack-n-slash or any kind of thing like that,
because I've played games like that (Slime Forest, anyone?) and they
SUCK. The goal is not to create the next WoW or EQ, the goal is to
find a way to use the very same weapons wielded by companies like
Blizzard, Phillip-Morris, NC-Soft, Gravity, Kraft, General Mills, and
any other evil company that ropes people in and holds them there for
life. The difference is that instead of people being mindless
consumers of neglect (WoW), cancer (Phillip-Morris), identity-crises
(NC-Soft), xenophilia (Gravity), cheese products (Kraft), or corn/
wheat pastes (General Mills), we have people that actually stick to
learning Lojban and enjoy it. Instead of doing something destructive,
people would be learning something constructive.

Some ideas I've heard so far (for activities):
Write a poem.
Write a short story.
Write a long story.
Spend time on IRC.
Blog.
Audio blog.
Video blog.

Ideas for rewards:
Collectible cards.
Short video segments of a plot-driven animation.
In-game monetary units.
Titles (think of forums).
Privileges (access to certain fora/channels for example).
Music.
Avatars.
Avatar decorations.

There are a lot of text-based/browser-based games out there (Kingdom
of Loathing is probably the absolute best example I can think of, and
in fact, I want to rip of its play style/mechanics), so maybe we can
make our own/model one after an existing game? Perhaps some kind of
RPG wherein players start in a non-jbo town wherein to get certain
things one must learn a certain amount of Lojban, and each successive
town requires more knowledge of Lojban. Combine this with the ideas in
the first post, suggestions I've listed above, any other ideas...

Perhaps the collectible cards are SRS flash cards, and a complete set
of one gismu and all places fits together like a puzzle piece, and on
the back is a portion of an art card. Each town has 10 ju'u gai gismu
cards, each gismu card has been 'shattered' into each of its places +
the gismu definition, each gismu + places, once memorised, reveals a
portion of an image on the back, all 10 complete cards reveals the
whole image. Each 10 cards together allows access to a dungeon wherein
one can gain a comic strip for a game-world-relevant story (perhaps
recalling the history of the world or some such), and every X number
of strips unlocks another challenge which gives the player the chance
to watch an animation that goes between comic strips.

Just ideas. =D

I'd like to see more concepts posted!

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