123886-suggestion-board-games

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Hello! 
 
 Not sure how hard it would be to program a number of seats and tables in capital cities with an assortment of board games, with no opposing AI, for 2-4 Players, maybe with an observer UI, Betting, a few achievements, and a Daily Quest to play a game?
 
I say this because it's long been a staple of sc-fi to have lowlife mercenaries gathered round a table playing cards and clever men on the bridges of starships contemplating chess sets. Maybe a few Old men playing Go or dominoes? These games have simple rules, and require simple art assets (Chua v Aurin Chess anyone?) and provide yet another wonderful type of cosmetic reward.
 
Custom pieces or Specialty skins for each game
 
A Datascape Chess set
Protostar Checkers
Chua "Shoots" and Ladders
Nexus Hold'Em
Some sort of Aurin Mahjong could be really pretty and I can't think of a good pun
Rock-Jack (Granok blackjack, clearly.)
Knucklebones (It's Craps.)
Freebot Hangman (He's always fine, robots can't choke.)
Exile Rummy
Cassian Othello
All Must (Basically Go, for Mordesh.)
  And probably Backgammon, Parcheesi, Sorry, Gin, Bullshit!, and Connect 4. I think all those games are in the public domain. Most of them have been around for a very long time. Their mechanics are tested and approved fun, why not include them so we have something to relax in all these bars you built and gamble with other assorted space personages should we choose to properly sleaze up.
Maybe stick a few in some of the sanctuary "shared" quest hubs that way if someone beats you, you can follow him outside and murder him. Well... Try to!Neat.	
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			I absolutely love this idea tbh...	
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			You are trying to make it so I never log out of the game . . .	
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A nice idea for an enterprising Addon author.
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			A nice idea for an enterprising Addon author.	
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I already have my hands full, thank you :P
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			What are the odds that the second a card game addon is developed, five roleplayers have casinos built and operational in a week?	
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			I'm surprised we don't have casinos already with housing and such, you'd figure some crazy guy would have built a casino house and done something with rolls. See far too many of these in other games as is though.	
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the more you add the options of "cosmetics" the more you open possibilities in an mmo.
 
i like the idea. but don't make it too complex.
an easy dice game that you could play in a pop up menu between 2-3-4 toons or something like that.	
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the more you add the options of "cosmetics" the more you open possibilities in an mmo.
 
i like the idea. but don't make it too complex.
an easy dice game that you could play in a pop up menu between 2-3-4 toons or something like that.
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This would be a personal favorit of mine. Checkers, Mancala, Chess, anything. No AI to be programmed into it just the option of 1vs1 plus expectators. I know I would love that. I do understand that programming priorities go elsewhere.
 
Being able to bet in Nexus in anything other than combate would be great.
 
Oh, and an spectator arena for 1vs1 por 2vs2 PvP would be great.	
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Personally, I love this idea, and I love it so much I pitched this exact idea over 5 years ago...  However, this requires a ton of UI work, and our UI team is super busy.  So I wouldn't look for it anytime soon.  (Of course my liking the idea doesn't mean it will ever happen...)
 
Gambling however is another issue.  It's illegal in some parts of the world, and in some states.  Even gambling with "fake" currency.  Particularly when minors can play.  The fact that we have a CREDD system that lets you spend real money to get in game currency complicates it further.  So gambling in any form is probably right out.
 
Of course any UI modders out there could write games like this up quite easily.  It wouldn't have the same in world connection as if we put them in as world objects, but it could still be quite fun.  And I would like to encourage y'all to do that. :)	
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How hard would it be for you guys to just put tables in places we could use for it if someone makes an addon?
 I'm talking about setbuilding as a form of addon-support. I recently heard you were looking for ideas for improving capital cities. Perhaps Just a few rooms with NPC vendor waiters/waitresses roaming around, and the appearance of a casino/Club/Secret Chua lab/Granok Bunker? Since you closed the RP server, I'm sure the RP community would revel in having a bunch of interesting looking sets with the bit roles filled by NPCs (Make them respond to emotes?) and would love to put on plays for the populace at large they now share space with. I mean I have no idea how far out capital cities update is.	
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