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[Discussion] Let's talk about GunBound

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Kimmy, Jul 19, 2018.

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    For those that don't know, before I came to the MapleStory scene I have played a multiplayer game called 'GunBound' for over 8 years in total. The same story applies for phnxphnx , who is our network Administrator since the start of MapleLegends.

    GunBound for those that don't know; is a multiplayer room-based PvP game very similar to worms. You shoot each other every turn with different kind of mobiles, weapons, items and maps.

    GunBound was at its peak back in 2002~2005 before MapleStory arrived into the scene. GunBound itself did stay a very popular game until the developers introduced pay2win items at a much worse level than Neckson did. Slowly and painfully the game lost more and more popularity and is now played by less than 500 people in 2018.

    Recently, I've been a bit nostalgic for this game, since I haven't played it for over 4 years besides a game or two, and even then the available servers are empty.

    Before MapleLegends became a thing and before I started playing MapleStory again I had a project up with phnxphnx which hosts the old version of GunBound.

    This project was since discontinued because we had a hard time building up a community that were not made up from people speaking only Spanish, as well as some unrelated issues.

    With the project eating dust for 4 years and counting, we are *lowkey* considering re-opening it as a sub-game. What is a sub-game? Its a game you can play when you want take a small break. Tired of grinding for 8 hours? Play a few games of GunBound. Want to battle it out with your friends? Play a few games. The main management and development will be kept for MapleLegends, since GunBound barely needs any management.

    GunBound is also only 95~mb in size, so it requires absolutely nothing to be run on your PC.

    The main question however; is if there's any community interest, which is why this topic was made.

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    TL;DR version
    - Considering running a GunBound server as sub-game ('Taking a break' for today game)
    - Development and focus stays on MapleLegends. Our network admin (phnxphnx) has much more knowledge about GunBound, and he doesn't develop anything related to MapleStory/MapleLegends besides network stuff, which means setting up GunBound reduces zero time from developing MapleLegends.
    - No concerns for additional server costs
    - The game version will be very last version of Thor's Hammer right before World Champion (2005 GunBound)
    - Original Old School GunBound rankings
    - Original 16 mobiles
    - Avatar backgrounds are available, making us the only server having them on the 'Thor's Hammer' version
    - The emulator/source is completely written by phnxphnx in 2013 by almost himself
    - Absolutely no modern GunBound pay2win garbage
    - Should be MAC compatible

    Concept ideas
    - Login ID's will be linked with Maple and GunBound. Register one and you can play both
    - Donating at either MapleLegends or GunBound will give you 'Cash' at both services
    - Voting for Legends giving a reward for both services, meaning even if someone were just to play GunBound he/she would still support our Legends' GTOP.

    Let us know what you think or leave your general thoughts. We are also interested to know your ideas on how we can integrate the community for both games.
     
    Last edited: Jul 21, 2018
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    I'm interested in briefly playing a couple of games for the novelty and nostalgia.
    If I did play, I'd probably play the bunge games and succ people in with JD's Graviton Surge.

    I hope there's the same quality of hacking prevention that MapleLegends has.
    It gets real old getting nuked for 800+ damage by soul-targetting spider balls.
     
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    Sounds like a win win
    might even bring in people who want to play classic gunbound onto maplelegends as a result
     
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    Never played it, let alone even heard of it, but it looks similar to Jagex's Arcanists that they're letting die, so I'd be down to try it out.
     
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    Yes, YES, YES. KIMMY I LOVE YOU, I TAKE BACK EVERYTHING BAD I HAVE EVER SAID ABOUT YOU ALLOWING HP WASHING.

    I have played Gunbound quite a bit in my days, and I know a thing or two about it. Being able to play Gunbound as a break from MapleLegends would be a great thing. We have a community big enough to make it work.
    There were other Gunbound private servers (such a Gunbound Classic, which is now a ghost town), and this can work amazing.
    My only tip would be to have both an option to play Gunbound in MapleLegends and another to play Gunbound as its own stand-alone game (Some people would love that).

    150M-200M is beans size. Maybe it could also be adapted to play on mobile? Am I being too greedy here, am I not?
     
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    WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT US TO GIVE TO YOU, MY MAPLE LORD?!?!

    But I've honestly been wanting to actually play this game, despite being so bad when it was actually really popular. Maybe my grown old man paws would be able to adapt ^^ :pinkbean:
     
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    I love the idea, me and my friend love gunbound to death
    There's a problem though

    As there's another server nostalgic with custom stuff, it's become death and i realized one big problem of this

    Gunbound depends heavily on online players, because the other place has 50 people online and they're all highly skilled on the game making newcomers have a horrible time, and also finding open lobbies impossible.

    We have average of 400-500 players online ,if 100 of them were to play gunbound that would mean at least 10-25 lobbies would be available and not everyone will get to play and/or farm gold for avatars

    If you want to give it a shot as a beta version i sure would love to play but i do believe on that being a major issue.
     
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    I never heard of it but I want it just to destroy all of my alliance mates.

    Lately I can't look down on anyone because they're willing to put hard work and effort into what they do, but if I can just murder them in another game I'll feel better about my life choices. 10/10 would play.
     
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    The first thing that popped into my mind was the whole channel system where in certain channels the stats from items were turned off, so would there be two channels at the minimum?
    I don't recall if room access could be limited by ranks.

    I am all for it though because my friends and I did hop on GBClassic for the exact reason you mentioned-to take a break once in a while from other games.

    and what was everyone's favorite Mobile??
    I like JD/NAK/Boomer/Grub in that order. and op dragon/knight if you get lucky with random
     
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    Hi all - do remember that this is just a concept at this point of time. We are also aware about the community effects - so IF the idea is actually implemented, it is something that we plan to pay close attention to. So do share your thoughts on the game and ideas about community integration and building!
     
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    We'll most likely start with only 1 server that is avatar OFF, since avatar on was much less popular, and the stat balance from avatars were horrible.

    I main Boomer and else Random
     
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    Why does this game sound so familiar?
     
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    Because it's yet another game, just like MapleStory, from the days of old
     
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    I personally see the idea as something you should be playing with people within Legends, or other friends. Right now I am not expecting outside popularity besides maybe people from other servers wanting to play this game again as well... I hope they can behave if that happen ;)
     
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    Time to quit maplelegends for gunbound :^)
     
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    Can I HP wash in gunbound?
     
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    seems like u already made up ur mind, why not just do it? advertise it here a bit and it will be somewhat stable/active
     
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    adukas only battle please. no s1, only s2 and ss
     
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