10-19-2009, 02:40 PM
Quote:Maybe you could do a sort of chain of command type thing. The more people you're leading, the more power you have. If you're solo or at the bottom of the chain, you're at 100%. If you're a squad leader leading 5 other people, maybe you're at 200%. If you're a platoon leader leading 5 squads, maybe you're at 500%. Still need to work in some kind of permanence, though. If the hero dies you shouldn't be able to just promote a new squad leader and he instantly gets hero status...
But yeah, hero schemes fall apart if there's no barrier to everyone eventually becoming a hero. It's not bad to be a fodder amongst 100 other fodders and 5 heroes, but it sucks to be fodder amongst 5 other fodders and 100 heroes.
Well thats it right there. You get a guy like Hoof who organizes 30 of us to follow him around the battle grounds in Warhammer, and he's buffed with some hero abilities. These abilities start building up as his group gets bigger, its not instantaneous. He wants to get more and more powerful and we want him to live (he has massive AE heals, can protect us from enemy hero players whatever).
I like it.
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