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How about a seperate multiplayer ranking?
I think that is needed, because the difficulty is kind of seperate and it would be nice if the rankinggames would be ordered by players, so that you can select one game and see who played it.

Biro

Actually it doesn't even have to be a new mode. Just an option in create game. Respawn - On/Off.

Put a little note in to say that respawn on games aren't ranked and bam.

If I get it right, separate ranking for Hard-Mode? No. Why?
Basically, if you want to play hard mode for highscore, and not the fun of playing hard, then why? No one forces you to play it.
And when you get to top 10 while playing hard, then you will feel good.

My other thought is that players shouldn't lose their items upon reviving. Basically all you get from reviving player is just loss of 10 gold. However revival with starting gear is wrong too, as it could lead to abuse letting player drop gold and wheat and then revive to get more.
Right now when you can't join started games, I guess the inventory could be saved to playerID upon death, and loaded upon revive. Also the grave should stay longer.

Also, after Day 48 I guess player could choose to continue or start NG+. They start on fresh map, with ther inv resetted, and letting them keep their workers,mut clearing their inventory too. The scheme would be resetted too, meaning night 4+ only has one mother instead of five.
In highscore, you would get located on par with continue equivalent. Monsters would increase their strength equally to continue, so night 1+ zombies would be as strong as night 49.

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The fact to separate hard mode to normal mode in the high score is also a controversial subject.

I don't think it is currently possible to reach the top 10 of the rank in hard mode.

What I will do is to but some filter button ("normal mode only" "hard mode only").
And in addition, the ranking will be composed of two numbers: The global ranking and the ranking in the given difficulty.

In this way you can still try to beat normal mode score with hard mode score, and you can also have a proper ranking just for hard mode.

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The revival with starting gear is a bug -- You are not supposed to get anything when you are revived.
Also, I'll increase the duration of the grave and I'll add a new feature:

When a player goes in his grave (from a past life), he can get back all his objects.
This will take some time to be done (something like 5s).
However, a tax need to be applied to penalize the death of player.

I am thinking to three solutions:

- Take a percentage of the gold of the player.

- Take a percentage of the item of the player (selected randomly).

- Increase the price of the "Life potion" (the potion to revive player) every time one is bought. For example, 10gold --> 15gold --> 25gold --> 40gold --> 60gold

What do you think?

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Finally, the "End of the game" is not decided yet.
But, once the game is over, the idea to give to the player the choice to restart the game, or to continue to enjoy peacefully his fortress is good.
However, you really need to have a lot of workers to beat the lvl 49-52 difficulty (event if it is only zombies).
And if the player does not have these workers, he is kind of skewed.
I'll have to think about it.
Thanks for the ideas :)

Hmm isn't it hard enough as it is? Just think about it, when you die, the player must pay 10 gold (which isn't little in the beginning and middle part of the game) and needs to get to your grave in under 1 minute, which is kind of hard and dangerous when you're in the later half of the game where you have a lot of monsters crawling around.

Biro