MMORPG Game Mechanics

Mechanics

Travel

Means of travel

Traveling anywhere can be done on foot, but is not always favourable. Oggs play the role of a transport for the Bura.

Fast travel

Fast travel can be done if a route to an area has already been discovered but only with the help of the Mara

Combat

Camera mechanics

Both action camera and tab-locked.

Combat pace

Realistic, pronounced animations. Some encounters require more skill and some can be steamrolled using stats check.

Special attacks

Bura - In progress

Mara - In progress

Mounted attacks - In progress

Damage calculation

Complex damage calculation based on armor, level, skills and resists.

Unlockable moves

High level in the corresponding combat skill unlocks new moves.

Building

This paragraph corresponds to buildings that can be initiated by a playable character.

For buildings of settlements please visit (IN PROGRESS)

Playable characters can build the following structures:

Basic structures

• Doesn’t need any building skill
• Can be constructed on your land or in the wilderness
• These structures have high decay rate
• Crafting and placement is instant

Structures in this category:

• Tent
  • A respawn & resting point
• Campfire
  • Cooking
  • Heating and comfort
• Basic (lvl2)  workbench
  • Allows creation of basic (lvl1) tools
• Storage chest
• MORE TO COME

Intermediate structures

• Requires some skill of construction
• Requires a lvl 1 workbench
• Can be constructed on your land or in your camp

Structures in this category:

• lvl 2 workbench
• Cooking station
• Forge
• Altar
• MORE TO COME

Advanced structures

• Requires high skill of construction and sometimes intelligence
• Requires a lvl2 workbench
• Requires a blueprint

Blueprints

• Highly skilled construction workers can create blueprints
• Upon creation there is randomness involved to determine the quality of the blueprint based on the skills
• Blueprints require a LVL 2 workbench to be craftable

Decay & Upkeep

• All buildings can decay and require materials for upkeep
• Higher level structures decay slower
• Structures decay faster in the wilderness

Trading

General

Trading can be facilitated between:

• Players
• Businesses
• Villages
• Tribes

What can be traded:

• Resources
  • Currency
  • Materials
  • Items
• Land deeds
• Shares of businesses
• Territorial control
  • Forests
  • Ore deposits

If Gyris tokens are present in a trade, they are taxed

Open2Trade

You can enable Open2Trade mode, which will create a visual effect above your character, signaling others you are open to trade. The visual effect can include the materials they want to buy or sell.

Inter-village trading

Steps:

1. A village sends a trade request to another by using a messenger
2. Another village accepts
3. Both are responsible to organize transfer of goods or services
   • Rider(s)  -  (can be done manually or by AI )
   • Transport(s)
4. Trade is finished once both parties have delivered the goods successfully

Charisma

IN PROGRESS

Makes sense to bring advantage during trade

Farming

Plantables:

• Food crops
• Trees/bushes (?)
• Flowers
  • for decorations
  • for Rituals
  • for the ladies of course
• Recreational
  • Cannabis plant alternative
  • Psilocybin mushrooms alternative

Tending

• Fertilizing
• Watering
• MORE TO COME

Speed of growth

• Trees: 1-12 Months ( depending on the type )
• Crops: 1 - 6 weeks  ( depending on the type )
• Flowers: 2-30 days  ( depending on the type )

Harvest

• Some plantables can bring harvest
• RNG involved, luck affected by certain skills
• MORE TO COME

Crafting

IN PROGRESS

Lock-in /Automatable Actions

Playable characters can be locked in doing certain actions

Such actions include but are not limited to:

• Tending to crops
• Participating in construction
• Participating in campaigns
• Working as an NPC

Communication

Inter-player communication

“I saw a major shift when Warcraft killed the region channels in chat. These local chats not only segmented chat (so that conversations could actually happen without being a fire hydrant of random text), they also contributed to a sense of community. You could be passing through a region, see someone call for help with a quest, and easily pop over to help them.

This simple social dynamic vanished once you were chatting to people all over the world.”

Voice chat

Proximity only

Text chat

• Within village/settlement
• Messengers to other settlements

State of the character

Developing skills

Doing any action that corresponds to a certain skill will slowly make you better at those actions and improve your skills. I.e. stat grinding

Examples:

• Keep hunting and skinning animals to become one of the most efficient hunters who can get high quality fur and a lot of meat
• Keep running and you’ll have better cardio than others
• Punch a tree to condition your knuckles and sheen

Gaming attributes:

Bura

• Strength
• Wisdom
• Resilience
• Intelligence
• Dexterity
• Charisma

Oggs

• Strength
• Agility
• Resilience
• Endurance
• Synergy

Mara

• Intelligence
• Resilience
• Wisdom
• Diffusion
• Instinct
• Curiosity

Skills/Mastery

Armed combat

• Defensive melee
• Offensive melee
• Mounted melee combat
• Mounted ranged combat
• Throwing weapons
• Ranged weapons

Unarmed combat

• Punching
• Kicking
• Wrestling

Movement

• Sprinting
• Climbing
• Swimming
• Jumping
• Sneaking

Construction

• Architecture
• Builder
• Manual labour

Crafting

• Armor
• Weapons
• Jewellery
• Clothing
• Construction materials
• Poison
• Consumables

Cooking

• Survival
• Comfort
• Gourmet

Gathering

• Berries
• Mushrooms
• Fruits
• Woodchopping
• Mining
• Skinning animals

Farming

• Planting
• Harvesting
• Growing
• Digging

Sports

• Rafting
• Mountain Boarding
• MORE TO COME

Animals

• Ogg Riding
• Animal farming
• Breeding
• Capturing and Taming

Secondary status: ( experimental idea )

• Morale
• Sanity
• Fitness
• Energy
• Cleanness (?)

Primary Status:

• Health
• Mana alternative
• Stamina

Resists

• Armor
• Magic re
• Fire re

Modifiers

IN PROGRESS

Modifiers, or buffs and debuffs are states of being which changes some of your stats either for the positive or for the negative.

Excercised

• Your fitness stat increases by X number
• You morale stat increases

Upkeep ( experimental idea )alternative

Characters need to be fed and excercised regularly so their state and skills don’t become dull.

Character progression

IN PROGRESS

• Levels
• Skill increase
• Careers
• Export & NPC

The world

World map

IN PROGRESS

Weather, seasons and day/night cycle

Seasons

Seasons change every 45-60 days

Day/Night cycle

Day - 1.5 Hrs

Night - 30 Min

Weather events ( experimental idea )

• Thunderstorm
• Earthquake
• Asteroid
• Tornado
• Tsunami
• Cyclone
• Avalanche

Random events

While traveling, there’s a chance to encounter random events:

• Traveling merchant
• A random quest
• High risk & high reward mob camp

Points of significance

Some areas can give bonuses if meditated there.

Hand-painted areas

IDEA: Handcrafted views and sceneries to make people stop and appreciate the environment + take a screenshot

Resources

IN PROGRESS

Mines / ore nodes etc…

Settlements

Population

Each bura and mara to be settled somewhere needs to have a bed. Land of houses/villages/colonies could increase by number of used beds.

Upgrades / Expansion

Once certain buildings have been built

Inter-village competition

Stronger villages and the ones that made better choices will be rewarded

• Expansion
• Trading & Wealth
• Control on local resources

Buildings

• All of the buildings can be owned by either a person , settlement,  business  or an organization.
• All of the buildings provide inventory space.
• Buildings may be a closed or open space.
  • Open spaces are accessible without changing an instance
  • Closed spaces are a different instance. Interior and people inside are only visible once one is inside the structure.
• Buildings may have  private or public access.

Tavern

It can:

• Provide accommodation
• Sell food, drinks
• Can provide entertainment

Hall

• Can provide accomodation
• Suitable place for a government of the settlement

Shop

• Requires a stand or a building
• Sell items from the inventory of the shop.
• Inventory can be filled by directly providing items or purchasing them from other vendors.

Base

IN PROGRESS

Farm

• Can provide accommodation
• Always comes with farming land
• Can sell raw items and farm products

House

• Provides accommodation

Church

IN PROGRESS

Economy

Legal entities

Person

A playable character of Gyris. Can be either a free2play character or an NFT.

Business

• Business can be created/owned  by a  persons , settlement or an organization.
• Business can receive investments and have shares.
• Some businesses might require a designated building while others don’t need one.
• Business can transition from Draft mode to Active if they satisfy their business requirements.
• In draft mode, business can only manage it’s members, shares and raise investment.

Type of Business can be choosen from the following list:

• A shop
• A tavern
• A traveling caravan
  • Doesn’t need a designated building
  • Can sell goods
  • Can provide escort

Organization

Groups of people can unite together to form an organization.

Organization may:

• Have Headquarters
  • A tavern
  • A Hall
  • A base
  • A house
  • A farm
• Have treasury
• Have private quests
• Own businesses
• Have different types of hierarchy
• Have shares

May Be of following types:

• Religious
• Military
• Humanitarian
• Recreational
• Commerce

Government

For Community to workshop

P2P Contract Jobs

General

• Players are able to to create jobs
• All of the jobs are required to have a reward
• Jobs have a required reward and a completion period/deadline
• Jobs can be created at or found at the settlement’s Job Board

The Jobs list

Mailman

• One can a request parcel to be delivered to either a person, settlement , business or an organization.
• A parcel can contain: letter(s), items/goods or currency.
• All deliveries are made by players.
• Fixed payment
• The job is available for anyone to accept. The first completion only gets the reward.

Construction work

Two types:

• Blueprint creation
• Physical work - manual labour

How it works:

• A person or an organization will be contracted to help build a construction or a building
• Adds experience to construction skills of everyone involved
• Physical workers will get “excercised” modifier
• The creator of the blueprint needs to have high intelligence for better construction quality
• Hourly pay + bonus at finish.

Farm work

• A person or an organization will be contracted to help with farm work.
• Hourly pay + bonus at harvest

Finder

• A contractor will pay a fixed reward for a specific item(s)

Guarding / Escort / Companionship

• Hourly pay + for damage taken + dealt
• Optional split the loot  job option can be specified in the contract

• Whoever takes the job puts 20% of the X amount as collateral
• If guard dies first, he gets to keep 50% of the collaterall
• If guard dies second he loses all collaterall

Others

• Gardening
• Bounty hunting

Items of the game

Materials

Materials are used in crafting, construction and as a fuel.

• Wood
  • Obtained by chopping down trees
  • Used as fuel for fire
  • Used in construction
• Stick
  • Obtained by:
    • Chopping trees
    • Breaking branches from a tree
    • Cutting bushes

• Long stick
  • Obtained by:
    • Breaking branch off a tree
    • Chopping down a tree
    • Can be used as a hitting weapon
• Rock
  • Obtained by:
    • Dismantling stone
    • Mining Stone
    • Find on the ground
  • Can be used as a hitting weapon
  • Can be used as a throwing weapon

• Stone
  • Obtained by:
    • Mining Stone
  • Can be used as a throwing weapon if Strength > 95

• Fiber
  • Obtained by:
    • Cutting down plants
• Flint
  • Obtained by:
    • Finding it near water
• Animal fat
  • Obtained by:
    • Skinning Animals
  • Can be used as fuel
• Leather
  • Obtained by:
    • Skinning Animals/Creatures
• Bone
  • Obtained by:
    • Taken from a animal carcass

MORE TO COME

Consumables

• Food
• Potions
• MORE TO COME

Activatables

• Traps
• Blueprints
• MORE TO COME

Wearables

IN PROGRESS

Weapons

IN PROGRESS

Tools

IN PROGRESS

Immediate Actions

Efficacy

Mastery * Attributes * State = Efficacy

Item actions

• Consumable - Eat
• Food - Cook
• Blueprint - build
• Sharp object - Cut something
• Equipable -Equip
• Poison - Apply
• Item - combine
• Item - place

Structure actions

• Construction site - Work
• Chair - Sit
• Bed - Lay
• Workshop - Open adv. Crafting
• Research table - Researching
• Campfire / Cooking station  - open menu
• Bed / Bedroll / Tent - Sleep
• Wall - Attach item
• Torch - ignite / put out
• Playable - play

Plants

• Harvest
• Water
• Fertilize
• Dig out
• Clone
• Crossbreed

Environmental actions

• Wallike surface  - Climb
• Walllike surface - Attach item
• Ground - Make campfire
• Ground - Dig
• Ground - Transform into farming land

Gathering actions

• Well - gather water
• Body of water - gather water
• Ore deposit - Mine
• Tree - Chop down
• Tree - Break off a branch
• Bush - Cut down
• Item - pick up
• Vegetation - harvest
• Carcass - Skin an animal
• Carcass - Gather Bones

P2P Actions

• Trade
• Create a contract
• Familiarize
• Affection

Independent actions

• Rest
• Emote
• Meditate