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Tue, 02 May 2006 22:17

kropotkin

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Well first of all. NO Jagged Alliance title ever offered this 'total freedom' nonsense. In JA1, 99% of all items in the country were pre-determined. No shops, and missions guided the player to key locations. JA:DG had the first merchant that added a bit of variety. Then JA2 was very similar to JA1, there was a definite order the first few cities had to be conquered, but not all of them were really necessary.

As to UC, it is quite definitely the worst mod I've ever seen for any game. It was done without any respect to how the game actually works and completely unbalanced it, besides destroying the storyline. The best solution to the whole 'progress question' was probably in Wildfire. But, we've all seen the whiners who found they couldn't take the airport first thing and started cheating again, with the 'liberators patch' and whatever else.

One possible solution would be coding in much stronger level scaling. Powerful full-size weapons will only show up when so and so many cities are conquered and the gang has reached at least charlevel X. Campaign designer will have to make an estimation as to the total bodycount or experience gain and balance character progress speed accordingly. "Mission-based" or not, stronger structuring can be introduced in many ways.

I know that there's a sizable minority who will always play the game "mod-squad style" with cheat sectors full of extra equipment and maxed-out mercs, but in the Jagged Alliance case thats really like pouring ketchup over a five-star dinner.

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		quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: the scorpion on Fri, 28 April 2006 20:20
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: the scorpion on Tue, 02 May 2006 07:15
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: Shrike on Tue, 02 May 2006 19:54
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: kropotkin on Tue, 02 May 2006 22:17
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: the scorpion on Tue, 02 May 2006 23:34
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: Shrike on Wed, 03 May 2006 02:30
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: JohnnyK3886 on Wed, 03 May 2006 04:34
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: Shrike on Wed, 03 May 2006 09:24
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: the scorpion on Thu, 04 May 2006 00:14
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: kropotkin on Fri, 05 May 2006 01:21
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: AZAZEL on Sat, 06 May 2006 23:33
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: the scorpion on Mon, 08 May 2006 06:26
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: LegacyOfApathy on Mon, 08 May 2006 22:37
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: DaethWalker on Tue, 09 May 2006 12:35
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: JohnnyK3886 on Wed, 10 May 2006 08:11
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: AZAZEL on Wed, 10 May 2006 09:44
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: the scorpion on Wed, 10 May 2006 17:13
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: AZAZEL on Wed, 10 May 2006 20:13
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: Harper on Wed, 10 May 2006 20:48
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: the scorpion on Wed, 10 May 2006 20:50
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: Shrike on Thu, 11 May 2006 06:43
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: the scorpion on Sat, 13 May 2006 22:33
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: Kaiden on Thu, 22 June 2006 10:27
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: the scorpion on Fri, 23 June 2006 05:28
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: Kaiden on Fri, 23 June 2006 09:09
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: the scorpion on Fri, 23 June 2006 19:28
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: Kaiden on Sat, 24 June 2006 11:46
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: the scorpion on Sun, 25 June 2006 03:01
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: Kaiden on Sun, 25 June 2006 05:06
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: the scorpion on Sun, 25 June 2006 06:02
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: kropotkin on Mon, 26 June 2006 02:19
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: Kaiden on Tue, 27 June 2006 09:56
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: the scorpion on Thu, 29 June 2006 09:35
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: Kaiden on Fri, 30 June 2006 12:45
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: AZAZEL on Fri, 30 June 2006 16:52
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: the scorpion on Fri, 30 June 2006 19:12
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		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: Burzmali on Mon, 31 March 2008 13:14
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: Starwalker on Mon, 31 March 2008 16:03
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: the scorpion on Mon, 31 March 2008 18:25
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: Starwalker on Tue, 01 April 2008 12:38
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: herb on Tue, 08 April 2008 11:22
		Re: quasi-missionbased campaigns. Concepts and general discussion By: the scorpion on Wed, 09 April 2008 21:38

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