An idea for Art Planet adventures.

Copied from my Sporum thread: (please vote) http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/39026.page

The Backstory: Me and a number of other creators use the adventure editor to create art (usually in the form of teraforming, sometimes using buildings). These adventures (if popular) can recieve a lot of comments.

The Problem: But due to the fact that they aren't real adventures little to no people play them which is required for them to be rated. They are also downrated quite a lot due to the fact that there is no real story; even if a small boss battle or something similar is added in.

The Proposal: Introduce a button in the editor which disallows the adventure from being played and instead allows it to be rated on the spore website.

I have thought it through and I'm sure that it can't be abused and that there is no way to bypass the system. Either only rate if they play it or nobody can play it and it can only be rated on spore.com.

I would be glad for all thoughts on this whether for or against, but please try to keep it constructive.

Some feedback and responses:

Mysteryem wrote:

CrazyShyness wrote:

I think this is an acceptable proposal. My support is granted, but wouldn't more people play them and instantly quit the adventure so they could have a playtime of 0 seconds and thus get a gold trophy? Wouldn't you get more plays then?

They are downrated a lot because there is no story, even the ones with small boss battles are still downrated.
But what I think you've missed is that people will recieve these in space stage. Which I have been told will probably be an instant downrate. But they then only get the plays and rates if they are played. Little to none will actually play them if they have a locked captain because the main drive to play adventures for most people is to get points for their captain and level them up.

Making them easy points missions such as move to treasure with an invisible mine in the way seems to be another way around it, but I hate easy points missions and refuse to play or make them.

Just make a short mission either on the other side of the planet or some how using the elements of the palnet art.

violetpup wrote:

Just make a short mission either on the other side of the planet or some how using the elements of the palnet art.

I did that to my C&C planet, I added two boss fights, but it is still getting hit by a small steady flow of downraters.

Make Art planet for fun?

I seem to get more plays once the points go up after the 20th play.... its too bad the complexity level gets maxed so fast when we use building for the planet design....limits the adventure and what we can add.

Can't you make an art planet take a picture of it so that the design is the main picture seen on the png, then take it all apart and start from scratch on the adventure,but then the main pic would still be that of the art planet design?

If that did work you would still show your piece of planet art, and free up plenty of complexity for the actual adventure. Although then people would be able to open up and see your design in the planet editor.

GA has two complexity meters Jondree - one for terraforming and one for the adventure itself. I am not sure complexity is actually the issue too much.

I'd suggest just using it like a normal adventure. Perhaps you could create a race of beings who inhabit only art planets. You can then have all sorts of adventures on them. Anything from find artefacts, massive battles, puzzles the lot. Even develop a story weaving through them so the player can actually learn why this race only inhabits art planets.

Speaking of which, I need to work on my Dr Cuddles creation >_>

Vektrix wrote:

I'd suggest just using it like a normal adventure. Perhaps you could create a race of beings who inhabit only art planets. You can then have all sorts of adventures on them. Anything from find artefacts, massive battles, puzzles the lot. Even develop a story weaving through them so the player can actually learn why this race only inhabits art planets.

The inhabitants could be the creators of the art planets, or like galactic archaeologists that study the ancient art planets...hmm...There are a lot of good plots you could base around an art planet