Nota en español / Spanish note: El post se encuentra en español al final de todo (v1). Post is in spanish at the end (v1).
Hey guys, Vari here, an old veteran from pawnoscripting.com and zonerol.net (from 2009-2013 lapse)
I'm a spanish speaker so the post will be in spanish at the end as well.
I'm here to talk about have a RP project running in 2024. Is this interesting for anyone? Let me know in the comments.
Prepare yourself for a large post, probably updated through time from now on.
1. Who am I?
As I said, a SAMP veteran. You can call me Vari.
I am 28 years old and I have 14 years in programming. I started back in 2010 with Pawn and, today, I'm a professional. I work with Javascript (React.js and Node.js) mainly. I also do some graphic design with Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma and I work a bit w Premiere Pro.
One of my dreams was always to have a great SAMP Roleplay community, both spanish/english speaken (two cloned servers).
2. Why this project?
It all started modding the original GTA SA with around 20 mods, including V Graphics. This was an amazing experience for me, and I thought that we could enjoy these graphics in SAMP... sad notice is that we can't. We could only create a client-installer to install DirectX 2.0 and that's it I guess.
Apart from graphics, I think this project as a big one, a serious one, like all my projects. I started thinking on this cause I saw plenty of players playing last night, both in Spanish and English servers... so I say to myself: why not? I have all the tools needed; knowledge, time (not too much) and money. I only need a team. But wait, very good news are at the end of this tunnel.
My idea is to have an active community in both cloned servers (english/spanish). I want to be able to get into the server at anytime and see, at least, 50-60 people connected and going around LS. I think the idea is not too crazy :) there are a lot of people waiting for a good server!
3. Good and bad things
One of the most important things today is that I don't have too much time. I mean, time to spend programming for SAMP, or moderating forums/communities. For this problem I have one solution and this is: we need a team. And I'm going to start talking as us, cause we need to start feeling the sense of community here, where each one of us create the necessary atmosphere to play and aport a bit of something. Players, moderators, mappers, scripters, designers. These maybe are the bad things, but still, hold on, I have the big power-bomb despite being alone for now.
The biggest good thing in all of these is that I have all the job done. I don't have time today, but I had it twelve years ago when I created Zonerol.net, one of the most interesting projects of my life. And I have it right now, and it works. With this, we have 80-85% of the IG job done.
4. Zonerol Gamemode
Zonerol was big part of my life, despite it lived for less than a year. I learned how to program thank to this, and thank to that I have a very good life today.
Zonerol is a big RP project, did it from scratch, from an empty file, by two young boys called Vari (I) and Bruno (one of my best friends).
Zonerol may have some bug as all systems in the world, but we loved to do fine-tunning and be perfectionist in everything, so I can assure you that Zonerol is more than enough for everyone who want to spend a good time roleplaying with friends. The job did by us is incredible and full of things to start playing soon!
Want to know about this gamemode in detail? Check this album full of screenshots and keep reading until the end! (or go to point 7)
5. New ways of roleplaying / Rethink the roleplay
I think that we all need to have a refresh of what roleplaying is in SAMP today, or at least what we want to do with this project. Thing is that more than ten years have passed and everything change through time. Is indispensable to rethink the wheel a little bit here. Why? cause we all want to have fun quickly IG, and don't waste time doing stupid things. Maybe some of us don't have too much time to play every week, so we want to assure you that you will have fun every time you get into the server, even if it's your first time, or if you are the leader of LCN.
One thing that I can say and it comes to my mind right now is: forums are very nice (I love them) but we can't force the players to enroll a forum or a web-panel to postulate to factions or that kind of things... as I said before, we want to spend time having fun quickly, and forums are nice but will NOT be mandatory for important processes like the one I said (enroll a faction). Of course, the leader of each faction will have a bit more of responsibility over his board / his faction members. Server will be all text based, we could have Discord rooms to keep us AFK / Playing, but IG will be text 100%.
6. Open source or private?
What is better? Do we need to keep the gamemode private and create a team, or do we need to upload it to GitHub and create a community, where a principal team will approve / decline Pull Requests? Let me know your thoughts! In anycase, we need to create a serious team.
7. Zonerol (Big description)
And the big fish is here, Zonerol. A gamemode based in LS mainly.
Zonerol is a very complete gamemode, full of things to see and enjoy. You can start watching this album full of screenshots, mostly headquarters and maps.
But you have it everything: a system to create accounts IG (and they will be created in a MySQL database), an introduction tutorial, not too long but a bit boring, where it explains quickly some concepts. You can go to LSPD and you will be able to rent a bike and start your journey quickly. We inject some money in the server as start-point and money evolves IG alone as players do transactions, a very interesting system (but old and probably useless today). You will see a lot of amazing maps and systems in the screenshots above.
Factions in this gamemode are 12:
Government, LSPD, Hospital, Taxi/Buses, Bodyguards, Car/Mechanical Workshop, Hot Wheels, CNN (Journalists), LCN, YKZ, Traffickers, Licenses Center. I think some of them are useless, we need an important update here.
.Government is a bit useless I guess.
.LSPD is amazing, it has an incredible interior mapping (watch the album!) and plenty of commands to play!
.Hospital is a faction with not too much sense but I have in mind a nice rework to make it enjoyable! Read the next point.
.Taxi/Buses is another faction highly useless if we stop and re-think the way players mostly travels the entire map; they always drive themselves. Some cases, not too much, we need a taxi at the beggining problably, why not to make it a job instead? good idea! if there are no taxis available, we can always rent a bike.
.Bodyguards are a good faction, with a very nice map and commands.
.Car/Mechcanics are one of the best factions, they always have work in a server where the vehicle damage is saved. Also, they sells tools to steal cars. We can rework this faction a little bit to add more interesting things around steal / buy / sell cars illegaly through this faction and Hot Wheels.
.Hot Wheels are the one that sells cars in Grotti mainly, they can also steal cars (member level 0, thief) and resell them legally. A very good faction that can work along Car/Mechanics and create very good roles between illegal / legal factions.
.CNN another incredible faction, full of stuff to do reports and play in group! Their job is so useful for the life of the game, cause they are always in the most important scenario covering the most important ropleplays for all the players in the server. They can do radio globally, and also global reports in vans and helicopters. CNN is fuc**** insane!!
.LCN is of course one of the best factions, but is not too useful since they don't have an specific role to cover IG. Maybe they could work with Traffickers to sell guns and drugs, that will be a good deal but we need to rework a little bit the factions and the guns/drugs system. Don't remember well if we had black market or something else. They are located close to Grotti, in the hills.
.YKZ same as before but they are in the opposite part of the map (close to Grove Street over the route to Las Venturas)
.Traffikers they are able to create guns based on materials created before, and cultivate / harvest marihuana (and create other drugs I guess) to sell it later. I don't remember what drugs makes to the player IG (apart from the crazy camera) but I have an interesting rework for these all. See next point.
. License Center a nice faction but useless today, we can rework this to create a mini-game to obtain all the licenses needed. We have licenses for: cars, boats, guns and I think for fishing.
Jobs in this gamemode are 5:
Thief, Street Sweeper, Fisher, Truck Driver and Boxer.
.Thief: Don't remember but I think you can get close to someone and steal money from it from time to time to not abuse this functionality.
.Street Sweeper: You need to clean the city in some checkpoints, its a bit boring since they are not too much but its OK to start.
.Fisher: Don't remember but I think you can fish and sell the fishes in some stores around LS.
.Truck Driver: Don't remember at all lol
.Boxer: ?? xD
Some interesting stuff:
.Car system: I know you can buy / sell cars trough Hot Wheels faction, but you can also use your car as storage to store weapons, armor, drugs and I think even more than that. If I remember well, cars have 5 slots. Cars are loaded from MySQL, so I don't have a way to show this feature right now since I don't setted up the database the time that I took the screenshots (during pandemic). We'll need to review and check the whole system and make all the necessary tests (like add/remove cars and so on, we had always issues with IDs and so on I remember xD). Cars for buy / sell are loaded from MySQL BEFORE (idk) static vehicles (like faction vehicles) to not alter IDs and stuff I guess. Of course you can close/open your car, tunning it in the Car workshop I guess (but I don't remember if changes made to the car are saved in SQL after a server restart), Refuel the vehicle in Gas Stations and more (like steal them and sell it to Hot Wheels with certain tools). A very nice and complete system. This is extended to boats.
.On-sell property system: One of the best, if not the biggest / best one. We loaded the houses through MySQL as well and they have coords for the external doors, internal doors, storage like the vehicles (for weapons, fishes, drugs, etc) and I think you can also cook your fishes to eat it and restore life. You can also rent the house to others BUT I don't remember well about this feature lol. We'll need to review this system as well in deep and make necessary changes, we'll also need to create a quick command like /createonsellproperty to create houses IG quickly in each door lol. Houses has the ability to have a garage as well, to park the car inside.
.On-sell business system: Same as before but to have business, a good one but I think we need to rework it to generate a system that can create profits eventually and a more interesting engagement. I think mafia can extort these businesses.
.Guns system: you can carry your weapon in your back, throw it to the floor and take it again, and more.
.More systems like drug system, cellphone (calls and sms), etc.
I still need to set up the server again and make an in-deep walkthrough through it. This time with all the MySQL stuff running (cars, boats, houses and businesses)
.Language system: Learn chinese, italian, portuguese and german, to speak in private in front of others. This system needs a fresh rework in LS (I think university is located in San Fierro)
8. What we need to do: corrections and systems
.Section under development (I'm writing it, be patient!)
Server is full spanish (100%) so we need to copy the gamemode and translate everything to english, but that is not hard to do, it only takes time.
First of all, we need to put old Zonerol in GitHub as v1, running OK with everything and adapted to OpenMP.
I have this idea of rethink the roleplay in mind and this comes with a lot of useful ideas. Mainly, the idea to make that everything in the game has to have a sense. If not, we are playing for "nothing". For example, take drugs in this server is useless if I remember well, because you only got a crazy camera and colours for a while. But... what if drugs can "heal" you? like 5 grams of marihuana for 100% of health. This makes the roleplaying so much interesting since you will want to carry drugs to heal yourself sometimes (roleplaying it, of course, not taking marihuana in the middle of gun shots lol).
This way, other stuff can be related to this idea of playing around the player life. For example, what if you can eat a burguer for 5$ and that heals you 5%? what if I take a combo for 15-20 usd and that heals me 15-20%? Sounds interesting... at first sight at least.
9. What can I do?
Nowadays, as I said, I don't have too much time. But as you can see, I can put almost 80% of the server code working and adapted to OpenMP. Apart from that, I can put some money to keep the server hosted on AWS and a website/forum. I also know how to administrate the forum and how to make graphic design so I can spend some time over that, but that's it. I'll need a lead scripter and, probably, one or two helpers plus. I can take the lead deciding with the lead scripter which reworks to do and maybe giving a hand to them. I'll also need designers, at least one or two. Same for mappers, but we can have 0 mappers for now, thank God we have a lot of mapping from old times, did it by myself and the community.
I can't spend time programming for this project, that's the bad one, but I did it ten years ago and thank to that we have an exclusive gamemode never released to the community to start playing very soon!! So we only need to create a teams and put hands on!
10. Join the team / community!
Even if you are not a scripter, mapper or whatever, only a person that want to share your life experiences / samp experiences and be part of a community, you are welcome and we neeed you! because every person, every comment from now on, every active player will have an impact in a community born.
Help me and we can create a very good one together! Let me your comment here and we can start talking.
Post en español por Chat-GPT (v1)
¡Hola chicos! Soy Vari, un veterano de pawnoscripting.com y zonerol.net (del 2009 al 2013). Hablo español, así que al final del post también estará en español. Estoy aquí para hablar sobre un proyecto de RP que quiero lanzar en 2024. ¿A alguien le interesa? Déjenme saber en los comentarios.
Prepárense para un post largo, que probablemente se actualizará con el tiempo.
Hey guys, Vari here, an old veteran from pawnoscripting.com and zonerol.net (from 2009-2013 lapse)
I'm a spanish speaker so the post will be in spanish at the end as well.
I'm here to talk about have a RP project running in 2024. Is this interesting for anyone? Let me know in the comments.
Prepare yourself for a large post, probably updated through time from now on.
1. Who am I?
As I said, a SAMP veteran. You can call me Vari.
I am 28 years old and I have 14 years in programming. I started back in 2010 with Pawn and, today, I'm a professional. I work with Javascript (React.js and Node.js) mainly. I also do some graphic design with Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma and I work a bit w Premiere Pro.
One of my dreams was always to have a great SAMP Roleplay community, both spanish/english speaken (two cloned servers).
2. Why this project?
It all started modding the original GTA SA with around 20 mods, including V Graphics. This was an amazing experience for me, and I thought that we could enjoy these graphics in SAMP... sad notice is that we can't. We could only create a client-installer to install DirectX 2.0 and that's it I guess.
Apart from graphics, I think this project as a big one, a serious one, like all my projects. I started thinking on this cause I saw plenty of players playing last night, both in Spanish and English servers... so I say to myself: why not? I have all the tools needed; knowledge, time (not too much) and money. I only need a team. But wait, very good news are at the end of this tunnel.
My idea is to have an active community in both cloned servers (english/spanish). I want to be able to get into the server at anytime and see, at least, 50-60 people connected and going around LS. I think the idea is not too crazy :) there are a lot of people waiting for a good server!
3. Good and bad things
One of the most important things today is that I don't have too much time. I mean, time to spend programming for SAMP, or moderating forums/communities. For this problem I have one solution and this is: we need a team. And I'm going to start talking as us, cause we need to start feeling the sense of community here, where each one of us create the necessary atmosphere to play and aport a bit of something. Players, moderators, mappers, scripters, designers. These maybe are the bad things, but still, hold on, I have the big power-bomb despite being alone for now.
The biggest good thing in all of these is that I have all the job done. I don't have time today, but I had it twelve years ago when I created Zonerol.net, one of the most interesting projects of my life. And I have it right now, and it works. With this, we have 80-85% of the IG job done.
4. Zonerol Gamemode
Zonerol was big part of my life, despite it lived for less than a year. I learned how to program thank to this, and thank to that I have a very good life today.
Zonerol is a big RP project, did it from scratch, from an empty file, by two young boys called Vari (I) and Bruno (one of my best friends).
Zonerol may have some bug as all systems in the world, but we loved to do fine-tunning and be perfectionist in everything, so I can assure you that Zonerol is more than enough for everyone who want to spend a good time roleplaying with friends. The job did by us is incredible and full of things to start playing soon!
Want to know about this gamemode in detail? Check this album full of screenshots and keep reading until the end! (or go to point 7)
5. New ways of roleplaying / Rethink the roleplay
I think that we all need to have a refresh of what roleplaying is in SAMP today, or at least what we want to do with this project. Thing is that more than ten years have passed and everything change through time. Is indispensable to rethink the wheel a little bit here. Why? cause we all want to have fun quickly IG, and don't waste time doing stupid things. Maybe some of us don't have too much time to play every week, so we want to assure you that you will have fun every time you get into the server, even if it's your first time, or if you are the leader of LCN.
One thing that I can say and it comes to my mind right now is: forums are very nice (I love them) but we can't force the players to enroll a forum or a web-panel to postulate to factions or that kind of things... as I said before, we want to spend time having fun quickly, and forums are nice but will NOT be mandatory for important processes like the one I said (enroll a faction). Of course, the leader of each faction will have a bit more of responsibility over his board / his faction members. Server will be all text based, we could have Discord rooms to keep us AFK / Playing, but IG will be text 100%.
6. Open source or private?
What is better? Do we need to keep the gamemode private and create a team, or do we need to upload it to GitHub and create a community, where a principal team will approve / decline Pull Requests? Let me know your thoughts! In anycase, we need to create a serious team.
7. Zonerol (Big description)
And the big fish is here, Zonerol. A gamemode based in LS mainly.
Zonerol is a very complete gamemode, full of things to see and enjoy. You can start watching this album full of screenshots, mostly headquarters and maps.
But you have it everything: a system to create accounts IG (and they will be created in a MySQL database), an introduction tutorial, not too long but a bit boring, where it explains quickly some concepts. You can go to LSPD and you will be able to rent a bike and start your journey quickly. We inject some money in the server as start-point and money evolves IG alone as players do transactions, a very interesting system (but old and probably useless today). You will see a lot of amazing maps and systems in the screenshots above.
Factions in this gamemode are 12:
Government, LSPD, Hospital, Taxi/Buses, Bodyguards, Car/Mechanical Workshop, Hot Wheels, CNN (Journalists), LCN, YKZ, Traffickers, Licenses Center. I think some of them are useless, we need an important update here.
.Government is a bit useless I guess.
.LSPD is amazing, it has an incredible interior mapping (watch the album!) and plenty of commands to play!
.Hospital is a faction with not too much sense but I have in mind a nice rework to make it enjoyable! Read the next point.
.Taxi/Buses is another faction highly useless if we stop and re-think the way players mostly travels the entire map; they always drive themselves. Some cases, not too much, we need a taxi at the beggining problably, why not to make it a job instead? good idea! if there are no taxis available, we can always rent a bike.
.Bodyguards are a good faction, with a very nice map and commands.
.Car/Mechcanics are one of the best factions, they always have work in a server where the vehicle damage is saved. Also, they sells tools to steal cars. We can rework this faction a little bit to add more interesting things around steal / buy / sell cars illegaly through this faction and Hot Wheels.
.Hot Wheels are the one that sells cars in Grotti mainly, they can also steal cars (member level 0, thief) and resell them legally. A very good faction that can work along Car/Mechanics and create very good roles between illegal / legal factions.
.CNN another incredible faction, full of stuff to do reports and play in group! Their job is so useful for the life of the game, cause they are always in the most important scenario covering the most important ropleplays for all the players in the server. They can do radio globally, and also global reports in vans and helicopters. CNN is fuc**** insane!!
.LCN is of course one of the best factions, but is not too useful since they don't have an specific role to cover IG. Maybe they could work with Traffickers to sell guns and drugs, that will be a good deal but we need to rework a little bit the factions and the guns/drugs system. Don't remember well if we had black market or something else. They are located close to Grotti, in the hills.
.YKZ same as before but they are in the opposite part of the map (close to Grove Street over the route to Las Venturas)
.Traffikers they are able to create guns based on materials created before, and cultivate / harvest marihuana (and create other drugs I guess) to sell it later. I don't remember what drugs makes to the player IG (apart from the crazy camera) but I have an interesting rework for these all. See next point.
. License Center a nice faction but useless today, we can rework this to create a mini-game to obtain all the licenses needed. We have licenses for: cars, boats, guns and I think for fishing.
Jobs in this gamemode are 5:
Thief, Street Sweeper, Fisher, Truck Driver and Boxer.
.Thief: Don't remember but I think you can get close to someone and steal money from it from time to time to not abuse this functionality.
.Street Sweeper: You need to clean the city in some checkpoints, its a bit boring since they are not too much but its OK to start.
.Fisher: Don't remember but I think you can fish and sell the fishes in some stores around LS.
.Truck Driver: Don't remember at all lol
.Boxer: ?? xD
Some interesting stuff:
.Car system: I know you can buy / sell cars trough Hot Wheels faction, but you can also use your car as storage to store weapons, armor, drugs and I think even more than that. If I remember well, cars have 5 slots. Cars are loaded from MySQL, so I don't have a way to show this feature right now since I don't setted up the database the time that I took the screenshots (during pandemic). We'll need to review and check the whole system and make all the necessary tests (like add/remove cars and so on, we had always issues with IDs and so on I remember xD). Cars for buy / sell are loaded from MySQL BEFORE (idk) static vehicles (like faction vehicles) to not alter IDs and stuff I guess. Of course you can close/open your car, tunning it in the Car workshop I guess (but I don't remember if changes made to the car are saved in SQL after a server restart), Refuel the vehicle in Gas Stations and more (like steal them and sell it to Hot Wheels with certain tools). A very nice and complete system. This is extended to boats.
.On-sell property system: One of the best, if not the biggest / best one. We loaded the houses through MySQL as well and they have coords for the external doors, internal doors, storage like the vehicles (for weapons, fishes, drugs, etc) and I think you can also cook your fishes to eat it and restore life. You can also rent the house to others BUT I don't remember well about this feature lol. We'll need to review this system as well in deep and make necessary changes, we'll also need to create a quick command like /createonsellproperty to create houses IG quickly in each door lol. Houses has the ability to have a garage as well, to park the car inside.
.On-sell business system: Same as before but to have business, a good one but I think we need to rework it to generate a system that can create profits eventually and a more interesting engagement. I think mafia can extort these businesses.
.Guns system: you can carry your weapon in your back, throw it to the floor and take it again, and more.
.More systems like drug system, cellphone (calls and sms), etc.
I still need to set up the server again and make an in-deep walkthrough through it. This time with all the MySQL stuff running (cars, boats, houses and businesses)
.Language system: Learn chinese, italian, portuguese and german, to speak in private in front of others. This system needs a fresh rework in LS (I think university is located in San Fierro)
8. What we need to do: corrections and systems
.Section under development (I'm writing it, be patient!)
Server is full spanish (100%) so we need to copy the gamemode and translate everything to english, but that is not hard to do, it only takes time.
First of all, we need to put old Zonerol in GitHub as v1, running OK with everything and adapted to OpenMP.
I have this idea of rethink the roleplay in mind and this comes with a lot of useful ideas. Mainly, the idea to make that everything in the game has to have a sense. If not, we are playing for "nothing". For example, take drugs in this server is useless if I remember well, because you only got a crazy camera and colours for a while. But... what if drugs can "heal" you? like 5 grams of marihuana for 100% of health. This makes the roleplaying so much interesting since you will want to carry drugs to heal yourself sometimes (roleplaying it, of course, not taking marihuana in the middle of gun shots lol).
This way, other stuff can be related to this idea of playing around the player life. For example, what if you can eat a burguer for 5$ and that heals you 5%? what if I take a combo for 15-20 usd and that heals me 15-20%? Sounds interesting... at first sight at least.
9. What can I do?
Nowadays, as I said, I don't have too much time. But as you can see, I can put almost 80% of the server code working and adapted to OpenMP. Apart from that, I can put some money to keep the server hosted on AWS and a website/forum. I also know how to administrate the forum and how to make graphic design so I can spend some time over that, but that's it. I'll need a lead scripter and, probably, one or two helpers plus. I can take the lead deciding with the lead scripter which reworks to do and maybe giving a hand to them. I'll also need designers, at least one or two. Same for mappers, but we can have 0 mappers for now, thank God we have a lot of mapping from old times, did it by myself and the community.
I can't spend time programming for this project, that's the bad one, but I did it ten years ago and thank to that we have an exclusive gamemode never released to the community to start playing very soon!! So we only need to create a teams and put hands on!
10. Join the team / community!
Even if you are not a scripter, mapper or whatever, only a person that want to share your life experiences / samp experiences and be part of a community, you are welcome and we neeed you! because every person, every comment from now on, every active player will have an impact in a community born.
Help me and we can create a very good one together! Let me your comment here and we can start talking.
Post en español por Chat-GPT (v1)
¡Hola chicos! Soy Vari, un veterano de pawnoscripting.com y zonerol.net (del 2009 al 2013). Hablo español, así que al final del post también estará en español. Estoy aquí para hablar sobre un proyecto de RP que quiero lanzar en 2024. ¿A alguien le interesa? Déjenme saber en los comentarios.
Prepárense para un post largo, que probablemente se actualizará con el tiempo.
- ¿Quién soy? Como dije, soy un veterano de SAMP. Pueden llamarme Vari. Tengo 28 años y llevo 14 años en la programación. Empecé en 2010 con Pawn y, hoy en día, soy profesional. Trabajo principalmente con Javascript (React.js y Node.js). También hago algo de diseño gráfico con Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma y trabajo un poco con Premiere Pro. Uno de mis sueños siempre fue tener una gran comunidad de SAMP Roleplay, tanto en español como en inglés (dos servidores clonados).
- ¿Por qué este proyecto? Todo comenzó modificando el GTA SA original con unos 20 mods, incluyendo V Graphics. Fue una experiencia increíble para mí, y pensé que podríamos disfrutar de estos gráficos en SAMP... la mala noticia es que no podemos. Solo podríamos crear un instalador de cliente para instalar DirectX 2.0 y eso es todo. Aparte de los gráficos, pienso en este proyecto como algo grande, serio, como todos mis proyectos. Empecé a pensar en esto porque vi muchos jugadores jugando anoche, tanto en servidores en español como en inglés... así que me dije: ¿por qué no? Tengo todas las herramientas necesarias: conocimiento, tiempo (no mucho) y dinero. Solo necesito un equipo. Pero esperen, hay muy buenas noticias al final de este túnel. Mi idea es tener una comunidad activa en ambos servidores clonados (inglés/español). Quiero poder entrar al servidor en cualquier momento y ver, al menos, 50-60 personas conectadas y rondando por LS. Creo que la idea no es tan loca :) ¡hay mucha gente esperando un buen servidor!
- Cosas buenas y malas Una de las cosas más importantes que no tengo mucho hoy en día es tiempo. Tiempo para dedicar a programar para SAMP, o para moderar foros/comunidades. Para este problema tengo una solución y es: necesitamos un equipo. Y voy a empezar a hablar como "nosotros", porque necesitamos empezar a sentir el sentido de comunidad aquí, donde cada uno de nosotros crea el ambiente necesario para jugar y aportar un poco de algo. Jugadores, moderadores, mappers, scripters, diseñadores. Estas quizás son las cosas malas, pero aún así, esperen, tengo el gran poder-bomba a pesar de estar solo por ahora. La mayor cosa buena en todo esto es que tengo todo el trabajo hecho. No tengo tiempo hoy, pero lo tuve hace doce años cuando creé Zonerol.net, uno de los proyectos más interesantes de mi vida. Y lo tengo ahora mismo, y funciona. Con esto, tenemos el 80-85% del trabajo IG hecho.
- Gamemode de Zonerol Zonerol fue una gran parte de mi vida, a pesar de que vivió menos de un año. Aprendí a programar gracias a esto, y gracias a eso tengo una muy buena vida hoy. Zonerol es un gran proyecto de RP, lo hice desde cero, desde un archivo vacío, por dos jóvenes llamados Vari (yo) y Bruno (uno de mis mejores amigos). Zonerol podría tener algunos bugs como todos los sistemas en el mundo, pero nos encantaba afinar y ser perfeccionistas en todo, así que puedo asegurarles que Zonerol es más que suficiente para cualquiera que quiera pasar un buen rato roleando con amigos. El trabajo realizado por nosotros es increíble y está lleno de cosas para empezar a jugar pronto. ¿Quieres saber más sobre este gamemode en detalle? ¡Revisa este álbum lleno de capturas de pantalla y sigue leyendo hasta el final! (o ve al punto 7)
- Nuevas formas de rolear / Repensar el roleplay Creo que todos necesitamos refrescar lo que es el roleo en SAMP hoy en día, o al menos lo que queremos hacer con este proyecto. La cosa es que han pasado más de diez años y todo cambia con el tiempo. Es indispensable repensar la rueda un poco aquí. ¿Por qué? porque todos queremos divertirnos rápidamente IG, y no perder tiempo haciendo cosas estúpidas. Tal vez algunos de nosotros no tenemos mucho tiempo para jugar cada semana, así que queremos asegurarles que se divertirán cada vez que entren al servidor, incluso si es su primera vez, o si son el líder de la LCN. Una cosa que puedo decir y que me viene a la mente ahora mismo es: los foros son muy buenos (me encantan) pero no podemos obligar a los jugadores a inscribirse en un foro para postularse a facciones o ese tipo de cosas... como dije antes, queremos pasar el tiempo divirtiéndonos rápidamente, y los foros son buenos pero NO serán obligatorios para procesos importantes como el que mencioné (postularse a una facción). Por supuesto, el líder de cada facción tendrá un poco más de responsabilidad sobre su tablero/sus miembros de facción. El servidor será todo basado en texto, podríamos tener salas de Discord para mantenernos AFK/Jugando, pero IG será texto 100%.
- ¿Código abierto o privado? ¿Qué es mejor? ¿Necesitamos mantener el gamemode privado y crear un equipo, o necesitamos subirlo a GitHub y crear una comunidad, donde un equipo principal apruebe/rechace Pull Requests? ¡Déjenme saber sus pensamientos! En cualquier caso, necesitamos crear un equipo serio.
- Zonerol (Gran descripción) Y aquí está el gran pez, Zonerol. Un gamemode basado principalmente en LS. Zonerol es un gamemode muy completo, lleno de cosas para ver y disfrutar. Puedes comenzar viendo este álbum lleno de capturas de pantalla, principalmente sedes y mapas. Pero tiene todo: un sistema para crear cuentas IG (y se crearán en una base de datos MySQL), un tutorial de introducción, no muy largo pero un poco aburrido, donde se explican rápidamente algunos conceptos. Puedes ir a LSPD y podrás alquilar una bicicleta y comenzar tu viaje rápidamente. Inyectamos algo de dinero en el servidor como punto de partida y el dinero evoluciona IG a medida que los jugadores realizan transacciones, un sistema muy interesante (pero viejo y probablemente inútil hoy en día). Verás muchos mapas y sistemas increíbles en las capturas de pantalla anteriores.
Las facciones en este gamemode son 12: Gobierno, LSPD, Hospital, Taxis/Autobuses, Guardaespaldas, Taller de Autos/Mecánicos, Hot Wheels, CNN (Periodistas), LCN, YKZ, Traficantes, Centro de Licencias.
Creo que algunas de ellas son inútiles, necesitamos una actualización importante aquí.
.Gobierno es un poco inútil, creo.
.LSPD es increíble, tiene un mapeo interior increíble (¡mira el álbum!) y muchos comandos para jugar.
.Hospital es una facción sin mucho sentido, pero tengo en mente una buena reestructuración para hacerla divertida. ¡Lee el siguiente punto!
.Taxis/Autobuses es otra facción muy inútil si nos detenemos a repensar la forma en que los jugadores se desplazan por el mapa; siempre conducen ellos mismos. En algunos casos, no muchos, necesitamos un taxi al principio, probablemente, ¿por qué no hacerlo un trabajo en su lugar? ¡buena idea! si no hay taxis disponibles, siempre podemos alquilar una bicicleta.
.Guardaespaldas es una buena facción, con un mapa y comandos muy buenos.
.Taller de Autos/Mecánicos es una de las mejores facciones, siempre tienen trabajo en un servidor donde se guarda el daño del vehículo. También venden herramientas para robar autos. Podemos reestructurar un poco esta facción para añadir más cosas interesantes en torno a robar/comprar/vender autos ilegalmente a través de esta facción y Hot Wheels.
.Hot Wheels es la que vende autos en Grotti principalmente, también pueden robar autos (miembro nivel 0, ladrón) y revenderlos legalmente. Una muy buena facción que puede trabajar junto con Taller de Autos/Mecánicos y crear roles muy buenos entre facciones ilegales/legales.
.CNN es otra facción increíble, llena de cosas para hacer reportes y jugar en grupo. Su trabajo es muy útil para la vida del juego, ya que siempre están en el escenario más importante cubriendo los roleplays más importantes para todos los jugadores en el servidor. Pueden hacer radio a nivel global, y también reportes globales en furgonetas y helicópteros. ¡CNN es increíble!
.LCN es, por supuesto, una de las mejores facciones, pero no es muy útil ya que no tienen un rol específico para cubrir IG. Tal vez podrían trabajar con los Traficantes para vender armas y drogas, eso sería un buen trato, pero necesitamos reestructurar un poco las facciones y el sistema de armas/drogas. No recuerdo bien si teníamos mercado negro o algo más. Están ubicados cerca de Grotti, en las colinas.
.YKZ igual que antes pero están en la parte opuesta del mapa (cerca de Grove Street en la ruta hacia Las Venturas).
.Traficantes pueden crear armas basadas en materiales creados antes, y cultivar/cosechar marihuana (y creo que otras drogas) para venderlas después. No recuerdo qué hacen las drogas al jugador IG (aparte de la cámara loca) pero tengo una interesante reestructuración para todo esto. Ve al siguiente punto.
.Centro de Licencias una facción agradable pero inútil hoy en día, podemos reestructurar esto para crear un mini-juego para obtener todas las licencias necesarias. Tenemos licencias para: autos, botes, armas y creo que para pesca.
Los trabajos en este gamemode son 5: Ladrón, Barrendero, Pescador, Camionero y Boxeador.
.Ladrón: No recuerdo pero creo que puedes acercarte a alguien y robarle dinero de vez en cuando para no abusar de esta funcionalidad.
.Barrendero: Necesitas limpiar la ciudad en algunos puntos de control, es un poco aburrido ya que no son muchos pero está bien para empezar.
.Pescador: No recuerdo pero creo que puedes pescar y vender los peces en algunas tiendas alrededor de LS.
.Camionero: No recuerdo para nada jaja.
.Boxeador: ?? xD
Algunas cosas interesantes:
.Sistema de autos: Sé que puedes comprar/vender autos a través de la facción Hot Wheels, pero también puedes usar tu auto como almacenamiento para guardar armas, armaduras, drogas y creo que más cosas. Si recuerdo bien, los autos tienen 5 slots. Los autos se cargan desde MySQL, así que no tengo forma de mostrar esta función ahora mismo ya que no configuré la base de datos el tiempo que tomé las capturas de pantalla (durante la pandemia). Necesitaremos revisar y comprobar todo este sistema y hacer todas las pruebas necesarias (como añadir/quitar autos y demás, siempre tenemos problemas con los IDs y eso, lo sé xD). Los autos para comprar/vender se cargan desde MySQL ANTES O DESPUÉS (no sé) de los vehículos estáticos (como los vehículos de facción) para no alterar los IDs y demás, supongo. Por supuesto, puedes cerrar/abrir tu auto, tunearlo en el taller de autos, creo (pero no recuerdo si los cambios hechos al auto se guardan en SQL después de un reinicio del servidor), repostar en las estaciones de gasolina y más (como robarlos y venderlos a Hot Wheels con ciertas herramientas). Un sistema muy bueno y completo. Esto se extiende a los botes.
.Sistema de propiedades en venta: Uno de los mejores, si no el más grande/mejor. Cargamos las casas a través de MySQL también y tienen coordenadas para las puertas externas, puertas internas, almacenamiento como los vehículos (para armas, peces, drogas, etc) y creo que también puedes cocinar tus peces para comerlos y restaurar vida. También puedes alquilar la casa a otros, PERO no recuerdo bien esta función jaja. Necesitaremos revisar este sistema en profundidad y hacer los cambios necesarios, también necesitaremos crear un comando rápido como /createonsellproperty para crear casas IG rápidamente en cada puerta jaja. Las casas pueden tener un garage para guardar el vehiculo.
.Sistema de negocios en venta: Igual que antes pero para tener negocios, un buen sistema pero creo que necesitamos reestructurarlo para generar un sistema que pueda crear beneficios eventualmente y un compromiso más interesante. Creo que la mafia puede extorsionar estos negocios.
.Sistema de armas: puedes llevar tu arma en la espalda, tirarla al suelo y recogerla de nuevo, y más.
.Más sistemas como el sistema de drogas, teléfono (llamadas y SMS), etc. Todavía necesito configurar el servidor de nuevo y hacer un recorrido en profundidad por él. Esta vez con todo el material de MySQL funcionando (autos, botes, casas y negocios).
.Sistema de idiomas: El nativo lo hablan todos, pero puedes aprender italiano, chino, portugues y alemán. Esto a fin de poder conversar secretamente en presencia de otros. Necesita un rework
- Qué necesitamos hacer: correcciones y sistemas
.Sección en desarrollo (¡la estoy escribiendo, sean pacientes!)
Primero que todo, necesitamos poner el viejo Zonerol en GitHub como v1, funcionando bien con todo y adaptado a OpenMP.
Tengo esta idea de repensar el roleplay en mente y esto viene con muchas ideas útiles. Principalmente, la idea de hacer que todo en el juego tenga un sentido. Si no, estamos jugando por "nada". Por ejemplo, tomar drogas en este servidor es inútil si recuerdo bien, porque solo obtienes una cámara loca y colores por un tiempo. Pero... ¿y si las drogas pueden "curarte"? como 5 gramos de marihuana por 100% de salud. Esto hace que el roleplay sea mucho más interesante ya que querrás llevar drogas para curarte a veces (roleando, por supuesto, no tomando marihuana en medio de los disparos jaja). De esta manera, otras cosas pueden estar relacionadas con esta idea de jugar en torno a la vida del jugador. Por ejemplo, ¿y si puedes comer una hamburguesa por 5$ y eso te cura un 5%? ¿y si tomo un combo por 15-20 USD y eso me cura un 15-20%? Suena interesante... al menos a primera vista.
- ¿Qué puedo hacer yo? Hoy en día, como dije, no tengo mucho tiempo. Pero como pueden ver, puedo poner casi el 80% del código del servidor funcionando y adaptado a OpenMP. Aparte de eso, puedo poner algo de dinero para mantener el servidor alojado en AWS y un sitio web/foro. También sé cómo administrar el foro y cómo hacer diseño gráfico, así que puedo dedicar algo de tiempo a eso, pero eso es todo. Necesitaré un scripter principal y, probablemente, uno o dos ayudantes más. Puedo tomar el liderazgo decidiendo con el scripter principal qué reestructuraciones hacer y tal vez dándoles una mano. También necesitaré diseñadores, al menos uno o dos. Lo mismo para mappers, pero podemos tener 0 mappers por ahora, gracias a Dios tenemos mucho mapeo de tiempos antiguos, hecho por mí y la comunidad. No puedo dedicar tiempo a programar para este proyecto, esa es la parte mala, pero lo hice hace diez años y gracias a eso tenemos un gamemode exclusivo nunca lanzado a la comunidad para empezar a jugar muy pronto!! Así que solo necesitamos crear un equipo y poner manos a la obra!
- ¡Únete al equipo / comunidad! ¡Incluso si no eres scripter, mapper o lo que sea, solo una persona que quiera compartir sus experiencias de vida / experiencias de SAMP y ser parte de una comunidad, eres bienvenido y te necesitamos! porque cada persona, cada comentario a partir de ahora, cada jugador activo tendrá un impacto en una comunidad naciente. ¡Ayúdame y podemos crear una muy buena juntos! Déjame tu comentario aquí y podemos empezar a hablar.
