So reading about the suggestions from fugi and ideas thrown around in the topic "Ultimate Weapon" by Fugi and thinking about this:
How about a special Ultimate Augment Quest with a unique slot number?
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I had an idea about the ultimate augment, which i am referring to as UWUAm, basically combine CoD zombies with Starcraft2 and create an end of the world apocalypse minigame where you must do a quest while fending off thousands of constantly spawning zombies that get harder and harder to kill. Doing the quest and getting a certain amount of kills would get you the UWUAm and if you die or zone you restart the minigame from square one. YOU CAN STOP READING HERE UNLESS YOU WANT TO KNOW THE DETAILS=============================================================================
In starcraft, I felt the best part of the game was where one of the leaders of the "good" alien race came to the human commander and showed him a vision of the future where the "bad" alien race killed every last human and it was a final standoff protoss and zerg where you played protoss and the object was to survive and kill as many of them as possible. In the end of course you died no matter how good you are; 1. Because you have so many limitted resources to build/modify/repair, and 2. Every minute they increase in the amount of units and diversity of the units that are sent at you in waves. The most powerful units sent later and most effective diverse groups being sent well into it. The achievement was to kill more than 10,000 units before you die.
CoD Zombies, the only other game that I play aside from EZ, is centered around this idea completely. You start out with nothing but a pistol and have to kill to get points and buy better guns and buy doors to run away and survive all the while the zombies get stronger, faster, and numorous.
I was thinking of a way to incorporate this into the quest, for example if the zone were only accessable by a player with the UW, he couldnt bring his entire group in to help kill, but at the same time he can team up with other people with the UW in the zone. It could have a score count per run, like keep track of how many solo kills and there could be a leaderboard, but in order to get the UWUAm you would have to get a certain amount of solo kills as well as a time limit they must reach, and its more of a mini game that is begun by talking to an NPC and starting it. If they zone out or die they lose. You could also put in a side quest to be on top of the kills and time to achieve, like when they start the "game" they have to collect items that they give to an NPC to spawn the NPC that gives them the UWUAm, but in order to get one of the items, or markers, you have to have... Let's say 10,000 kills this run. Aside from that the NPCs with the other markers have to be found, like you have to kill 4 mobs in the correct order to get that marker, then while killing you find something to combine and turn it to a machine-like NPC to give you the marker you need, and after... Let's say 30 minutes... The NPC that gives you your UWUAm spawns and you can hail him to check you to see if you have all of the markers complete and the amount of kills needed. Obiously all done solo. If you are in a group, the original start NPC wouldnt start the timer for the augment NPC, so a group score could be achieved but the UWUAm can't be gotten an easier route than the intended solo route. The start NPC would also check you for the items used in the quest and delete them before you can start a new attempt so that you cant do part of the quest one time and the other part another time, it must all be done in one half hour run.
As far as the mobs to face go, it could be done by having zombie001 with X amount of health and X amount of damage, with X amound of speed, that when it is killed, spawns 2 zombie002 mobs with X+1 of all of its stats, then each of those when kills will spawn 2 with X+3 stats. After 10 minutes a superstat mob could appear and have to be killed, along with the items that need to be obtained. Spawns should appear at the edges of the zone but have 100% zone radius as their aggro radius. Some of the in betweens can have spawn points randomly throughout the zone, or even just the starting mobs spawn near zone edge but the rest spawn at points vlose to the player, so that they have a minute to get ready when they start.
A way to prevent someone from just waiting out the timer and killing really slowly to make sure they get it (like training the lower lvl zombies and killing one every so often at full health and waiting on their health to go up is to have a decay timer on the UWUAm npc that takes him out after 1 hour, so the quest has to be completed within a window of time.
Creating instakill bombs and things of that nature would be cool to look into too as something only being able to be used inside that zone.
I also apologize ahead of time for the length of this and any spelling/gramar mistakes, im on my iPad in my car typing this.
Comments and constructive critisism welcomed. Just an idea I would love to see incorporated into the server. A little end game player competition like this could be fun right?
