New Idea: Companion System

Basic idea: You select up to two low-leveled players which you want to help. By selecting and helping these players, you gain more EXP than you usually do. If you revive your companions you gain more EXP than if you revive a different player who is not your companion.

In-Depth idea: Select your companions by saying !co (short for !companion). Your companions will get something like this appear in their chatbox: "Player |MG| LEGEND has requested to be your companion, he will cover yo ass at all times! Type !co to accept/deny the request." Hopefully they accept.
Becoming a companion with a Level 1 will allow you to gain more EXP than becoming a companion with a Level 30 for example. Maybe there will be some chance of extra rewards for your assistance such as if you stick with your companion until he becomes Level 40 then you gain a Gem.


This idea will benefit new players as well as old. New players will stay and play while old players will have new players to play with

 

I love this idea

 

Do it! Do it!

 

Great idea, some new players just give up cause a high level can overpower them so easy, this improves the chance of some new player stick around also improves the 'help each other' as teammates.

 

Possibly it should be more of a team effort, IE if I select some level 4 to protect, it should pop up to all teammates that way everyone can help protect and be part of the team! Bonuses would be shared of course. I just think it would be too easily abused by 2 people, they could just rush ahead of the 'team' and only care about their bonus.

 

20% percent is way too little. 50% - 75% would be better, because he won't be able to kill a lot of commons and SI, and you will be able to.

Also, being rewarded with only 1 gem to lvl 40 is not much. I suggest that, when he reaches lvl 10, you receive 3 gems; lvl 20 - 2 gems; lvl 30 - 1 gem; lvl 40 - 10k xp and 1k pts, and lvl 50 - 5k xp and 500 pts. After lvl 50, he can be able to coach other low-lvl players.

Another also, all toasters are shared (100%) except 2x, 5x, and lvl-up toasters. For example, if either him, or you, find a full luck toaster, you both have full luck on next lottery or craft.

One thing I forgot: Can something like pts donation, be implemented, so you can donate pts to him?

 

Suppose i choose two level 1 players, but they only manage to level up 4-5 times that day so how will i be able to trace them again? Would i have to add them to my friend list? The reward should be more than just 1 gem or something even though i don't need exp or gems now but if the reward is greater then it will encourage more people to do this companion thing.

 

The Companion System will track who you set as a Companion it will monitor how many times you played with your companions and other details such as how many times you revived/protected/healed/gave gifts/how close you stuck with your companions/gave pills/chatted with your companion (you may have to use their name everytime you talk)...

...all of these actions will give you rewards until your companions mature to a Level 40 standard. Performing these actions several times, possibly over 100 times, will reward you with a better reward such as ES (Enhancement Stones) or unique Companion Buffs.

Once your Companion matures you have the option of ditching him (lol)** and you can choose a different Companion or continuing on with him/her as your Companion. If you choose to continue with him/her as your Companion you will remain in close contact through a special chat by using !co, unlock Companion Skills and you will have the option of special Companion Buffs. You will not get a reward and you may not choose another companion. The reason for this is because you have the option of Companion Buffs/Skills which will remain an integral part of the system.

All of this is great if you have a person over in Vicious Infected who is a great player but has never played on Points Reloaded. You can teach them PR and as they level up you gain the benefits of a skilled player, a longstanding member of MG and a (hopefully) high level companion by the end of this.

*to be introduced: maybe we could also have a system of buying things for your companions or spawning things that can only be picked up by your companions - this will give you more EXP.

**Your Companion may opt-out of the system at anytime, although after Level 10 if he has not opted-out he will be forced to remain your Companion until Level 40. Companions who are already Level 10+ cannot opt-out at anytime they will have to wait till Level 40 to opt-out as they should know enough about the system. At Level 40 she/he may choose to opt-out or remain as your Companion until the end of time!

 

forced to be our companion till lvl40? wat if we wanna ditch them for a new partner anytime because they dont come on no more.

 

If your companion hasn't turned up in a week then you can get rid of him.

 

This is a great idea. It will encourage newer players to stay and play. Instead of joining, dying and then assuming the server isn't very good or too hard. I'd love to see this as a feature Plus it will add a new role to higher level players, the bodyguard

 

I started making this then I realized that only Honor could do something as complicated as this...

Silly me...

 

i love the idea only thing is is that so many people are becoming lvl 200 and dont care about exp anymore.

But maybe with the new guild system it would be fun.
Also i will be trying to code some irc bots which can also track stuff etc. but i dont think the irc can do so much. but i will be testing a lot of stuff to see if its possible

 

hmm wen is the guild system coming out =p, getting very anxious

 

It's coming out a day before the release of L4D3 when people won't really play l4d2.