Citizen the Game

Going Open Source?

2008-02-18T02:44:00.000-08:00

That's the question that's been on my mind. I'd like to see this go somewhere but I've found my plate quite full. I barely even have time to procrastinate.

The Return of Citizen

2007-07-07T11:06:00.000-07:00

Well, I've decided to revive this mess. The first thing I've been contemplating is switching players and objects to multi-tile icons. I've had some success messing around with it (while creating a AC:WW style fruit bearing tree). I've gotta work on some issues with how my weird perspective will look multi-tiled.

Update: Report Crime!!

2007-01-06T00:08:00.000-08:00

Citizen's may now report a crime at the police station (labeled CPD). Soon, players will be given an alloted amount of time to go to court and make a plea. Players who attempt to avoid making a plea will have a warrant issued for their arrest. Citizen cops will recieve a monetary bonus for handcuffing suspects with warrants based on the severity of the alleged crime.

The trial system will be fair, but will account for the occassional guilty person going free and innocents being convicted. Crimes can have a monetary penalty as well as a sentence.

The progress on the court system isn't ready yet, but it is coming together I promise.

I will also need to overhaul the jail set-up. I'll give convicts more things to do while they're in. I may perhaps even allow for a way to make an escape. Of course fugitives could and would be severely punished if caught

Idea Submissions from Demon27933

2007-01-03T11:41:00.000-08:00

Title: Some new ideas Author: Demon27933
Message:

1. Cat and dog npcs a pet shelter a pet store to but them food and necessary stuff.
2.Grocerie stores
3.alley ways
4.garbage cans and dumpsters
5(this goes with dumpsters) days of the week event tell u what day it is like monday tuesday wednesday. and every monday thursday and sunday the garbage trucks will come and empty them (this will affect with after you eat your candy bar it becomes a wrapper in your invertory and u can throw it away same with cans there should be a option to say crush can and throw away. to have this to work you gotta be enar a garbage can to throw and trash away.

If i come with any new ideas i'll post them.

~Jon~ P.S. try and make these work they'll be good features to the game.

6.street lights that go on when its midnight and turn off when dawn ro suns comes back this will make the actually event of night time to come and it becomes dark and street lights give off like only 5 blocks of light and doesnt cover all to make it look like its dark. also policemen should be able to have and wield a weapon also have its trusty flash light to go in the alley ways to catch drug dealers.

Byond Directory Icons, Evil Buses, Color & Google Forum Ads!

2006-12-06T06:22:00.000-08:00

I've added a small and large icon for the game's listing in the byond directory. Perhaps that'll bring in some more play-testers.

I will continue to focus on coding for property acquisition, the voting system and player customizing.

I've added some color (as per Mayor Delamore's request) to the chat system. There's a bug that cause the bus to chase whoever "waits for bus" at the bus stop instead of just approaching and stopping. I've disable the bus spawn, though "waiting for the bus" will still take you to one of two large empty fields and then back downtown. The apartment rent code is almost working right.

I've also added google ads to the in-game forum. Nothing like the possibility of making a dent in my debt to encourage me to really work on Citizen.

Time Issues Ironed Out

2006-12-03T21:52:00.000-08:00

So, I've figured out why Kunark's Calender library was crashing. Just needed to update the Byond DreamMaker client. A bug persists that offsets the year to nearly 500 years in the future. I'll toy with that problem another night.

And apologies for the serious downtime on the server. Should be smoother sailing from here...

[EDIT] I have figured out what was offsetting the time so much. The game speed was set to 72 times faster than normal.

Weekend Update

2006-03-05T21:25:00.000-08:00

The results of the first election seem to have been successful with no indications of tampering.

Delamore - 16
Ariii - 16
Phoenix Man - 11
Megablaze - 7
Glider101 - 3

The city will be governed by a 5 member city council, the head of which will serve as Mayor. This initial council will help me establish how long terms should last, as well as potential uses of city income once I have a tax system to generate funds.

I've updated code on the lottery to make it more realistic. I've sorted existing commands into three verb panels. I've also made headway on coding i.d. cards.

My main foci going forward will be to build a motel & a school, get the tax code up, create abilities & duties for the city council and finally to get the kinks in my building code worked out.

Lotto System Issue

2006-03-05T15:17:00.000-08:00

The winning 5 Minute Lotto ticket worth $1226 was sold to...
Krogoth-rockstar!! Congratulations!!
The winning 5 Minute Lotto ticket worth $1361 was sold to...
Krogoth-rockstar!! Congratulations!!
The winning 5 Minute Lotto ticket worth $1502 was sold to...
Krogoth-rockstar!! Congratulations!!
The winning 5 Minute Lotto ticket worth $1638 was sold to...
Krogoth-rockstar!! Congratulations!!

Mmm... Stable Host

2006-03-03T23:30:00.000-08:00

After two full days, Citizen has not crashed. I'd forgotten what it's like to have a dependable operating system.

The game is still quite unplayable. Pre-alpha you could say and still quite skeletal. It will take a while to flesh it out enough to be really enjoyable but I have received some compliments as well as great feedback. I hope to get some coding done between Saturday and Sunday night.

I'm most proud of having a working day/night cycle. Daylight lasts from 7am to 7pm U.S. EST (GMT-5). I'm least proud of the icons for the people.

Urgent Issues

1. There are players who'd played in earlier alpha testing complaining of login issues. Still looking at this problem.

2. Players capable of spamming via several methods. Simple to fix.

3. Icons

4. Taxes

5. Introduction and Help menu

Citizen is Back!

2006-03-01T16:56:00.000-08:00

Now that it has a stable machine to run on, I've resumed developement of my free mmorpg, Citizen. Check it out.

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