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Yes.  A long title for a post that will cover some things that can make it easier for a game to be played.

HP system - when it goes to 0 you go to a page that says you died.  Limit one so the game won't crash if someone made two and both died at the same time.

Variable Caps. - Lowest possible to Highest possible.  Goes with HP system. 

Multiplacation Effects - Instead of the basic adding and subtracting you can multiply and divide.

Percentage Effects - Like multiplacion effects except you can put in -10% or +23%.  No multiplacation or division is aloud for this.  If you have this you probably won't need the multiplacation or division effects.  This sets it up as itself. 

Battle System - Check out Kaddar's Thread - Nice Site, Suggestions.

Alex, tell me what you think of these.  The percentage one is an origanal.  You can find the other 4 in basic RPG and battle games.

These center around Varibles and right now they can be updated with kaddar's post.  Adding -100% to 200% is anywhere between *0 to *2. 

With Ranges for varibles you could make it like adding -100%,0%, or 200%.  Implementing that would allow me to make a small game called Double or Nothing. 

Good ideas for sure. First, consider that there haven't been any games that have taken advantage of the new variables just yet. I'm reluctant to invest more time in new "new" features when the new features aren't quite utilized. I'd be encouraged if someone were to make a big game, Lodi's Quest or Wal*Mart style.  I know march said something was in the works with him ...

The "HP System" you describe is already slated for development - March suggested it a while ago. You can attach an event to a variable; if that variable goes within a particular range, you will automatically be taken to a page. Yo uwoud set you HP Var to go to YOU DIED if it goes < 0.

Note that one can achieve percentage effects with multiplication. -10% would be multiplied by 0.90. +23% would be multiplied by 1.23. But, this is not on the "list" for now.

As far as a battle system, it's hard to say what we'll do. That was discussed a *long* time ago when we talked about when making the site initially. What I'd like to see long before a battle system is some random variable changes.

Good point, integers are easiest.

I can see implementing the randomness, multiplication, and "division" all at once. As for randomness, I'm leaning towards dice-style changes -- 1d6, 3d20, etc. Do those make sense to you?

What I'm thinking is ..........

VARIABLE NAME             CHANGE TYPE              CHANGE VALUE
 SCORE                                  [Add]                                      124
  HITPOINTS                         [Subtract]                            242424
 BLAHBLAH                          [Multiply]                                  3
 BLXHBLAH                          [Divide]                                     4
 XXASDF                               [Percentage]                             22
 ASDFF                                   [Reset]                                    0
 GOOOOV                             [Random]                              5d9

The CHANGE TYPE would be a drop down list. The idea with putting in subtract is b/c it avoids the question "how do I subtract from a variable".  Ditto for the mult/div/percentage. Random would be dice.

Trust me, I'd love to program it too ;-). Unfortuantely I've been busy with a client's project ...  free hobby programming can't really compete with programming that gets me cash ....

Yep. My day job involves programming mortgage software. What is really annoying is they block this site on the firewall, so I'm stuck checking it only at home.

My other website (TheDailyWTF.com) gets about 100x as much traffic as this site.

I have two ads on that site, a fixed ad and a google ad, which probably will bring in around $2,000 this year. This covers the hosting cost for the webserver (which this site piggy backs on).

The ads that i have on that site bring in more money than the ads that would run on this site (i get ads for programing tools that cost $5,000).  But lets be generous and say I'd get 1/50th the revenue. That's like $40. And not even worth my time to create an ad acount, put the HTML on the page, etc.

So now you see why I'm totally uninterested in ads. If you're feeling generous, just take a trip to my other site and do a click or two on the ads. But don't say I told you to do that ;-)