The Combat Zone & Body Lotto
So here's an idea that just came up my mind while I was taking a look at the posts in the Fan Art section of the Forum.
The picture that interested me is this one:
What I thought of was the following: What if Night City had an actual Body (Limb) lottery in the game, that would be broadcasted on radio? A lottery where someone can win actual body parts from fallen warriors in the Combat Zone (And only from there). Now my idea is, that when you visit the Combat Zone and die in there, you will get revived at the hospital, but there's a certain possibility that someone wins a limb of yours. Of course this would only regard artificial enhancements and upper body augmentations - no real body parts and no legs, be they cyber or not (We don't want to crawl or hop out of the hospital after all). But someone might win your cyber arm or your brain implants or something like that. E.g., you'd be totally lost WITHOUT that translation implant CDPRED talked about a few months ago. You'd want that back!
And the lottery could also involve your weapons. Imagine you own a nice gun and suddenly it's gone!
Now my actual idea is the additional gameplay that emerges from this. With a little tracking device you could track down the winner to get your stuff back, one way or another. The higher your own level is, the higher the chance that you actually loose one of your implants (That keeps you on the edge while in the Combat Zone even if you are Pro, you know you loose your stuff if you die). And the higher your level, the higher the probability that your stuff was won by someone who won't give them back just like that and won't go down easily.
And, there's another gameplay element: You can participate in the lottery yourself for a few weekly credits and actually win stuff too. The possibility shouldn't be too high, we don't want to win loads of stuff all too fast, after all. And of course, if you win someone's body parts, the person might track YOU down and confront you in the middle of the street.
I know it collides a bit with the permanent death-idea of NPCs and enemies, (AKA you are the only being that keeps coming back from the dead, like in GTA) but I still like it.
Thoughts?
So here's an idea that just came up my mind while I was taking a look at the posts in the Fan Art section of the Forum.
The picture that interested me is this one:
What I thought of was the following: What if Night City had an actual Body (Limb) lottery in the game, that would be broadcasted on radio? A lottery where someone can win actual body parts from fallen warriors in the Combat Zone (And only from there). Now my idea is, that when you visit the Combat Zone and die in there, you will get revived at the hospital, but there's a certain possibility that someone wins a limb of yours. Of course this would only regard artificial enhancements and upper body augmentations - no real body parts and no legs, be they cyber or not (We don't want to crawl or hop out of the hospital after all). But someone might win your cyber arm or your brain implants or something like that. E.g., you'd be totally lost WITHOUT that translation implant CDPRED talked about a few months ago. You'd want that back!
And the lottery could also involve your weapons. Imagine you own a nice gun and suddenly it's gone!
Now my actual idea is the additional gameplay that emerges from this. With a little tracking device you could track down the winner to get your stuff back, one way or another. The higher your own level is, the higher the chance that you actually loose one of your implants (That keeps you on the edge while in the Combat Zone even if you are Pro, you know you loose your stuff if you die). And the higher your level, the higher the probability that your stuff was won by someone who won't give them back just like that and won't go down easily.
And, there's another gameplay element: You can participate in the lottery yourself for a few weekly credits and actually win stuff too. The possibility shouldn't be too high, we don't want to win loads of stuff all too fast, after all. And of course, if you win someone's body parts, the person might track YOU down and confront you in the middle of the street.
I know it collides a bit with the permanent death-idea of NPCs and enemies, (AKA you are the only being that keeps coming back from the dead, like in GTA) but I still like it.
Thoughts?
