PHP Battle system for my RGP-MMO.

[HCProfessionals]

I need help coming up with a better combat system for my PHP RGP-MMO. Is anyone interested?

 

Right now it is basically offense vs. defense. Whichever is greater wins, but is honestly getting dull.

 

Total Offense = User Total Units + User Unit Upgrades + User Unit Bonuses.

 

Total Defense = Enemy Total Units + Enemy Unit Upgrades + Enemy Unit Bonuses.

[KevinM1]

I think you mean RPG....

 

I was making my own a little while ago.  Single player, so it wasn't a MMO, but the combat engine was the heart of it.  Here's the gist of it:

 

Both PlayerCharacters (PCs) and Enemies derived from a base Character class.

 

PCs could be one of three classes - melee DPS, hybrid/status effect class, ranged DPS/mage.

 

Characters had a list of Attacks, which were objects.  Every class had access to the basic attack.  Specialized attacks were class-dependent.  New attacks were gained every 3 character levels.  Note that 'Attack' was a generic class... some of them weren't attacks in actuality, but buffs/debuffs.

 

Attacks could also have status effects tied to them.  These effects would attach themselves to the targeted Character (on a successful hit) via the Observer pattern, and each effect had a duration.  They would detach themselves from the Character when the duration reached 0.

 

All of this class/attack/status effect data was saved as XML files so I could add new classes, attacks, and effects without having to hard code much into the system.  It was as simple as simply dropping a new XML file into the correct directory.  Enemies had their own, simpler XML files.

 

Combat itself was turn-based.  50/50 chance of the Enemy attacking first.  All of the rest of the attacks happened in sequence.

 

I forgot what math I used, but I made sure there was a sliding miss percentage based on the Character's level.  That way, good equipment wouldn't totally make one's level useless.

 

I never got around to finishing it, but I had the basics of the combat system working.  I stopped during the status effect design phase due to real life things.

[ignace]

Never thought of creating a GIT(hub) repo for it, Nightslyr?

[KevinM1]

Never thought of creating a GIT(hub) repo for it, Nightslyr?

 

I might do that.  I don't know if I'll ever get around to finishing it, so someone else may as well take my half-baked ideas and see what they can do.  It's an ASP.NET project, but aside from the hoops I had to jump through to successfully hook into its Page object's lifecycle (which was a PITA), and some LINQ to read in the data from the XML file, the majority is straight OOP code.  Anyone should be able to lift most of it with minimal translation.