Revive and Zombie Card
The Revive Card would fall under the same area as a gift card but this card you could Revive any player of choice back from elimination.
I think a good default setting for this is 1 card per game (but make it customizable so you could also get pieces for it). In team games, you could get someone back in the fight and in FFA's you could spice things up by reviving someone from the dead.
This also brings up the idea for another card, the Zombie Card. This card will revive someone from the dead and they will turn into an AI that isn't a part of any team and will attack anyone. I'm not sure if this part will fly or not, but you could have it where the Zombie will spawn on any visible Neutral spot, including abandons :)
I think these cards can also spark up some new Variant game types where you are fighting off zombies that get like 10-15 armies per turn and they're everywhere.
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Anonymous commented
Hey guys check out this template I played about zombies - http://warlight.net/MultiPlayer.aspx?TemplateID=165400
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hubalu commented
It's not necessary to introduce a new card type.
Revive should be an option in Gift card customization. -
Ruthless commented
Thinking about it some more...I think the Zombie AI's should be coded differently in the sense that they should be done Mothra style to not make them so powerful. For those of you that don't know the term, Mothra style is where the Zombie can only choose one territory to attack at a time and it cannot split it's blob. This would make the Zombies a little easier to defend and it wouldn't be a huge game changer. Of course...this portion could be done optionally as people may want to have the Zombies be full AI's.
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Ruthless commented
My intent for the Zombie Card would be that you can play it on a visible neutral so it would have to be next to you in a fog game. But in an non-fog game you can choose wherever you like because you would be able to see all of the neutrals (it would be very useful to use in conjunction with a spy card...hint hint).
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Ruthless commented
Could you use the revive card on someone who had been booted? Yes, that should be configurable of the card
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Ruthless commented
I can just pictures someone Zombie-ing a large abandon of like 150, then see it rampage their area. It would devalue Abandons and make it so people wouldn't make ginormous ones.