or DOR (DarkOrbit Remix) was an offline DO clone which came out in series years ago and it was like a fever, literally everyone who played this game loved it. Although it wasn't continued and with time people stopped playing, developing and it has been forgotten. But recently I've seen some encouragements from people who liked it and want to keep it alive, some people are wondering to build from scratch, others already began.
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It is a complicated project, as it takes time, and it has never been monetised to compensate. So i'd like to point some features which may help you out if you're interested about building your own clone but you don't want to invest much time without something in return.
So if you ever run into doubts, you don't know what to work on, you don't know what to implement, you don't know if it's worth your time... Let me give you a list of suggestions to help you develop your offline clone or simply DOR based game
Before anything, let me point that personally i do not like the idea of making an very OLD version of DO, simple because despite being ugly (yet nostalgic), there isn't much space for development, implementations and updates.
First, something that may chain people into your game, as it is really good, people could play it for hours, days, weeks, depending on your efforts and their will power [how the nostalgy emotion chains, how hard would someone be looking for upcoming news...].
Complete game play
- All stantard maps available
-- x-1, x-2, x-3, x-4, x-5, x-6, x-7, x-8 / 4-1, 4-2, 4-3, 4-4, 4-5
- All the respective NPCs and their bosses
- Clean and pretty Assets visual (In special: Ships and their designs, NPCs, Homebase, Drones and their designs)
- Smooth Ship movement
- Smooth Drone movement
- All basic Galaxy Gates
-- Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, Zeta, Kappa and Kronos
- Extra Energy
- Quests
-- Normal Quest
-- Boss Quest
-- Special Quest
-- Daily Quest
-- Weekly Quest (For really advanced Clones if one day become existent)
- Every essential equipment
-- Credit Laser/Generator
-- Uridium Laser/Generator
-- Galaxy Gate Laser
-- Drone Formation
-- Uridium Designs and their respective bonuses and skills
-- Rocket Launcher
- Every essential Ammo
-- Laser ammo: x1, x2, x3, x4, RSB-75 (x6) and SAB
-- Rocket ammo: PLT-2020/2021/3030, PLD, DCR, ECO, UBR, SAR. HLST
-- Mines
- Boosters
- Every basic Ship
- Every basic ammo available at the shop
- Special ammo available through quests and Galaxy Gates
- Rank table
- Bots (Players) flying through the maps
- Multiple bots with diferent equipment (Weak, Intermediary, Strong, UFE)
- Basic bots mechanics
-- Move, Lock/Attack NPC, Fly to safety when being attacked, Attack back, Ammo/Tool usage for PvE and for "EvP".
- Bots grind rank
- Bonus Boxes
- Resources and Cargo Boxes
- Refinement
- Trading (Homebase)
- Realtime time count
- Double Configuration
- Pilot Sheet
- AUTOMATIC GAMESAVE
It would be enough to make a "Complete" DOR so far. Now to make it more challenging, and even monetise if it is what you desire.
DLC (Additional Content) Free or Paid
Map DLC
- More maps
-- Pirate maps
-- Blacklight maps
-- LoW map
-- Can be splited into multiple DLCs
Quest DLC
- More quests
- Special quests
Challenge DLC
- Challenge Quests
-- Rewards player with a specific title
Event DLC
- Spaceball (With bots)
- TDM (With bots)
Improved Bots DLC
- Bot now Hunt
- Bots smarter AI
Group DLC
- Player now can Invite blue bots
- Improved Bot AI for group activity
Improved Pirate Maps DLC
- Palladium fields
- Demaner
Clan DLC
- Some bots gets clan tags
- Player can now create and manage clan
- Player can no set a limited number of diplomacy
Player Profile DLC
- Possibility to change nickname
- Possibility to change company
Special Designs DLC
- Country Designs
- Football Designs
- Company Designs (Vanquisher, Sovereign, Peacemaker)
- Champion Designs
-- All of them available through quests, shop, galaxy gates, special events, etc. Respective bonuses aswell.
-- Can be splited into multiple DLCs
Cosmetics DLC
- Blue, Red, Pink, Blacklight, Prometheus, etc Spectrum/Diminisher/Sentinel,Solace,Venom
-- Can be splited into multiple DLCs
Special Ships DLC
- Aegis, Citadel, Spearhead
- Pusat
- Surgeon
- Etc
-- Can be splited into multiple DLCs
P.E.T DLC
- Adds PET into the store
- Adds the possibility to allow Bots to fly with PET
Equipment DLC
- LF4-Paritydrill, Magmadrill and Hyperplasmoid
- Prometheus
- Spartans (Drone Design)
- Hermes (Drone Design)
- Demon (Drone Design)
-- Can be splited into multiple DLCs
Galaxy Gate DLC
- Lambda
- Kuiper
- Hades
-- Can be splited into multiple DLCs
If you've always been an enemy of P2W and you do not feel comfortable from keeping people away from your works only because they're costly, you can simply split between early access (When people who paid can enjoy the content earlier) and late public dlcs (After certain time, the content become free for everyone to enjoy), think about it.
It is important to notice that having your own Site or Platform to share announcements and updates is almost a must. If you keep using Epvp then don't forget the backlink.
We once used to work together as a community to achieve the best path. In memory of the good old times in EPVP DO section, if you have any idea to share or any criticism, please share with us your thoughts. Also if you're a developer and you're interested about making your own game, please share with us your reaction
I know also that there are tons of developers on discord who doesn't even know about EPVP, so if you could share this with them, it could eventually even help yourself aswell.
Let me know i you'd like to see suggestions about NPCs per map, NPCs rewards, Quest rewards, descriptions and objectives and more.
