My first post here/An awesome idea that struck me

[ricoeab]

Hey guys I've been a lurker here for a while. I've been a huge fan of Avatar since season two. I think it is not only one of the best if not the best cartoon on tv and one of the best shows on tv.

It also got me interested into martial arts. Im currently studying praying mantis kung fu here in California. Its kind of similar to firebending in that its a northern chinese kung fu style.

I love this site and forum, i think its a great place to have mature discussions about Avatar.

Anyways enough background on me. The last couple of days I was thinking I had an awesome idea about avatar. Maybe if im lucky Mike or Bryan will see this or maybe Pooldude could pass it along

I don't know if anyone ever thought of this but I have a couple of ideas to play around with for an AVATAR MMORPG for maybe the computer. I call it the "The Land of Avatar" or Avatar" The Four Nations" I just was wondering if you guys think that its a good idea and would be a really popular way to get more people into Avatar. I have played a couple of mmo's especially world of warcraft (though i dont anymore). I think its an awesome market for the avatar property. I'll get to that.

This post is gonna be kind of long but here goes.

Here's the background, all of this is hypothetical. Obviously im an average joe and i have no idea what happens for the rest of the season 3/story. I could be totally wrong but anyways here goes.

---Aang defeats the Ozai and Zuko becomes firelord with Iroh as an advisor( if he survives and zuko vice versa) , bringing an era of peace. All of the nations rebuild, mend old friendships and all is right with the world. Also even though everyone thought all of the airbenders were wiped out they weren't. Being that they are airbenders they were able to evade and hide out from the firenation not all of them but a substantial amount, this way after Aang dies someone could teach the next avatar airbending.

The world is existing in peace but where there is good, there is also evil (the whole balance theme of avatar). After the war there are supporters of Azula and Ozai, that are plotting. Also I want there to be more corrupt Dai Li for the Earth Kingdom and im trying to think up an idea for evil water benders haha, for the other nations. Also I have an idea for an Order of the black lotus that is kind of like an antithesis for the Order of the white Lotus. Where the white lotus is for peace and justice, the black is for chaos and destruction.

There are so many locales in the Avatar world, that the gameworld itself would be huge. You would get to travel most if not all of it. For example places like....
-Northern Water Tribe
-Ba Sing Se
-Si wong desert
-Gaoling (Toph's hometown)
-Roku's island
- the Airtemples
-Lake Laogai, thats just a very small set of examples but just to give you an idea

TRANSPORTATION-Only airbenders will get skybison so im trying to think of other forms of travel for the other nations like ostrich-horses for land, and public ferries for water travel. Also you can travel where you want at the start of the game but if you get to far out of your level range something will alert the player and you will want to head back to your level zone, i want to make the land streamlined like world of warcraft.

START-When you start the game you make your character and get to pick your nation, you will get 8 character slots to make male and female characters from each nation. After you pick your nation you get to pick your name and class. Your class determines your stats. there will be armor and equipment found in the game that raises your stats.

NAME- Can be randomly generated to go with the flavor of your nation, or pick your own but will have to be approved so theres no "AAAANgs or Zuuuukkkos" they will be npc's in the game

So far all I have for CLASSES is- 1.(nation) bender
2.warrior/figher (no bending powers kind of like sokka and soldiers for ek, wt, and fn. Also women in the EK can be Kyoshi warriors. ----I dont know if i like this, im guessing everyone is gonna want to be a bender. If you got anymore ideas let me know maybe we can send this to Mike and Bryan.

All characters will start in a small town away from the capital city (Airbenders start in a temple (gonna be hard to implement having a city and leveling area in the same vicinity but they will probably have to travel to the nearest coast of a mainland to start questing, and will get there bison and a whistle early.

LEVELING- I havent decided yet on experience. I think I like the idea of exp only through quests, but grinding can be kind of fun.

When you get enough experience you level up. For benders they will have to go back to their Master/Sifu, and they can learn new bending techniques that are more effective, also their stats will go up. Warriors can go to the barracks of there city and learn new fighting techniques.

QUESTING- In all of the areas throughout the world there will be NPC's one of them will be the Avatar. whether its Aang or the next one from the water tribe (like i said i have no clue whats gonna happen) but it will be an npc, b/c letting one person play as the avatar would be unfair and overpowered. But i have some ideas for him to travel the world and give some quests. Some npc's will work in shops others will give quests. There will be a lot of npcs in the world.

You get your quests from npc's. They will be anything from fetching quests, to killing a certain named creature to killing a bunch of smaller ones. Also traveling to a certain land can get you exp. Also theere will exp from "lore"
"LORE"- also gives exp. this is from reading books or scrolls and gives backstory on the lands and people in the Avatar's world. Some scrolls are also for bending techniques like the one found in "The Waterbending Scroll".

COMBAT TECHNIQUES/BENDING POWERS-
Each nation has there own bending style, hoping if this gets made they can get Sifu Kisu to do mocap.
Weapons- Warriors use weapons in battle, each nation has its own flavor of weapons. These aren't all of them just an idea.

Water Tribe- Clubs, fanged weapons from animals, spears

Earth Kingdom- Hammers, spears, swords, hookswords(jet), fans(kyoshi)

Firenation-broadswords(dual or single), spears,

Airnomads, can use their staff/glider

BENDING-Bending comes from chi, basically no chi= no bending. Chi can be restored by eating/drinking or relaxing/meditation, it will regenerate really fast to keep the action going though.

Each nations bending powers can be buffs, attacks, cool effects etc. Each bending style will do a certain kind of damage-
Fire Dmg
Air Dmg
Water Dmg
Earth Dmg, this can lead to strategic combinations when fighing certain enemy npc's on quests

Airbending- Airbending will be about evasion and attack they will have buffs to prevent them from getting hit, and can unleash huge airblasts.

Waterbending- Can attack with sharp water whips, tidal waves and are the ONLY healers in the game. Players can buy potions and such but they're not as effective as a waterbender.

Earthbending-them and the warriors are the tanks of the game. Can take damage pull up rocks for protection, have high health, and can dish out pretty good damage. can root enemies with quicksand.

Firebending- The damage dealers of the game, they do quick high damage attacks.

Thats about it so far this is all I have. But I think Avatar will make an awesome mmo let me know what you guys think. If anyone knows how i can send this to mike and bryan to see if there interested that would be most appreciated.

Thanks

[Horyo]

Only one issue: money and time. It takes quite a while to map out the programs and environment for such a sophisticated game to run with people constantly logging in. Mike and Bryan would have to find people in order to make the game, and have to get Nick to Agree, I believe.

While I love the idea, I just hope they put back Autumn Twilight, the SORPG for Avatar. I loved that game and I could imagine playing it again and again.

[ShizukaSakoi]

I think that thats great! Oh, I do have another way of travel for you though, like they had in Ba Sing Se, the earth trains. They could be good for long distances 9sort of) if you didnt have any other way of getting somewheres. And to keep the templesfrom getting to crowded, i think that their were certain temples for the monks/nuns. I do know that all airnomads werer born benders, that why they had the smallest population of the four nations. I think that your idea is a good opertunity for the Avatar merchandise, but they probably wouldnt market it.(though i would sooo go out and buy it^^)

[Horyo]

Well for wishful thinking I think that tehre should be a weather system or terrain system that promotes certain bending elements.

Even a day/night cycle to boost fire/water?

[ShizukaSakoi]

That would be really good, it would be a very complx game (obvioulsy) especially if it rained. The days could sort of go with a time zone thing, so that waterbenders could have the effect of the full moon.

[ricoeab]

yeah i dont know where to begin with this either, sending the ideas to game companies and such. But it would defnitely have to start with nickelodeon, and mike and bryan. I just think this is a good idea for an avatar game (compared to the other two crap ones that came out) that might get people interested in the property.

[ShizukaSakoi]

so the second one wasnt good either? I bought the first shortly after it came out...terrible. Havent played the second becouse i thought a repeat was liable to happen. the idea is really great though. You may want to get nick permission first, since avatar is kinda their thing...

[Kin~]

You may want to check this out and talk with the creator:
distanthorizons.proboards31.com/index.cgi?board=otherc&action=display&thread=1200555637

[ricoeab]

the second one was really short i heard (could be beaten in four hours). That mod is similar to my idea although thats like a strategy game, and mine is like wow or everquest. Its just an idea i had, i doubt i can do anything with it. But that idea about the day/night cycle is awesome too i didnt even think about that.

[ShizukaSakoi]

I think that it would be awesome if you could sort of travel throughout the world, kinda experience it how you wnat in a way(like you unlock certain areas @certain levels.) then you could see the bigger citeis(like BSS, or NWT, FN capital) when your in the higher levels. just a thought. Day and night cycles are a great idea, like it would be set on a certaintime for that world, then when you logged in (depending on if you were a water or fire bender) could possibly determine the amounf of streanght your bending has. Hey, Tourneys might be a good possibility too, against other members maybe???

[ricoeab]

Thanks for the support. On a much easier note, for the consoles they should make a fighting game, like the naruto ones, that would be a lot of fun too.

[ShizukaSakoi]

yeah, I just wish that they could put some better graphix into the avatar games....

[Horyo]

Though, what would we be fighting to grind?

Soldiers? Or wild animals?

[ShizukaSakoi]

Well, we could be fighting the Firenation still, theirs bound to be some who wouldnt want to take a single defeat, wars are about battles, surley the FN wouldnt want to give into the defeat, they would want to regain the territory in the EK that they gained over the 100 years of war.Just a thought...