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LionCave
LionCave is a realistic 3D lion MMORPG placed in an African setting. Players will be able to hunt, form prides, and raise young in a realistic environment.
Hunting will be realistic, and will involve using the stalk and then chase and kill mechanism. You will have to make sure you are close enough to have a chance, yet far enough away that it doesn't alert your prey. Bigger and more difficult prey, such as wildebeest and buffalo, will require a pride effort to bring down. The hunting animations will also be realistic, with actual biting and clawing animations. Yes, there will be a bit of blood. After the kill is made, the player can then eat the prey they brought down. You must hunt at least once every three days before beginning to starve. If you don't play the game for a month or longer, your character will die due to starvation and dehydration.
Now... onto the subject of mating. In order to have cubs, you must mate. However, there will be no actual mating animation due to the fact that I know people will be immature about it. Instead, the two characters will merely nuzzle, while the female will roll on her back and purr, pawing at the male's face while the male nuzzles her. There will also be an option in your bio to turn 'allow mating requests' on or off. To mate with someone, you must click on their avatar and send a mating request. There is an ability to make it so no one can spam you with requests by simply turning mating off.
Cubs will be actual players. When making a character, you have the choice to play as a newborn cub, or an adult. If you choose newborn cub, there will be a list of available pregnant mothers, with their activity and last login date shown. Pregnancy lasts 1 week, and the last three days are open for cubs to select the mother. The last day is the due date, but the cubs aren't born until both the mother and cubs are all online at once. If the cubs aren't born yet a week after the due date, it is a miscarriage.
Cubs must be nursed when first born, and they can't walk for the first three days of life. Just crawl. They will be weak and defenseless. After the days, they learn to walk and can play. The cannot hunt or kill until they turn into adolescents. If the mother does not feed the cubs, they will die. However, any other lioness can nurse or hunt for any cub, in the case of neglectful mothers.
Prides can be led by either a male or a female. If the leader doesn't log in for over a month, the pride is disbanded. Prides can have as many members as they want to, there is no limit. The bigger the pride is, the more successful they are. To join a pride, you can pull up a list that lists all prides that the leader is currently online in, and the pride's activity level. Select one, and send a joining request. If you are accepted, pride members will become blue dots on your minimap.
There will also be many emotes and actions you can perform, such as roaring, play-fighting, and snarling/growling.
PvP will be an option. You can have the option to turn PvP on or off. When it is off, no one can attack you. If it is on, anyone can attack you, unless they have PvP turned off. There will also be no health bar, as wounds will show on the character.
~WIP~
EDIT: Website added. http://lion-cave.freeforums.net/ (http://lion-cave.freeforums.net/)
UPDATE: We are thinking of using this model as the base. (Since it is a lioness, we can just add a mane to make it male, and downsize and add spots to make a cub. That's why I just want a lioness, instead of getting both.)
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The only problem with that model is... it's $50. Though... that is one epic looking model for $50, don't ya think? Wouldn't you wanna play a game with a lioness model like /that/?
You can find the model here: http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/lioness-animation-fur-3d-model/687139 (http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/lioness-animation-fur-3d-model/687139)
If anyone interested in LionCave would like to help buy the model, we would be grateful. Plus... such a nice thing would not go un-repaid. We would definitely think of something to repay anyone kind enough to help us with the model, and thus the entire production of LionCave.
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I'll be watching the progress of your game. :3 Goodluck.
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Good luck on the game.
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I don't see a way of helping you with the models, or anything in that perspective, but I will be stalking this thread as it seems fun and maybe if you want to I could help you create a forum? Of course I would be glad to help in some way.
Good luck on the game xD
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I can make a website if you want XD
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Website has been added.
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Updated with screens of the lioness model~
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Omg, that is one amazing model. My eyes hurt from it's amazing floofiness xD
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That lioness model looks flooftacular. (lol what...)
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:o I had to look again. I thought it was a real picture at first. o-o
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It depends on buying the model, are you going to stick to the game? Because lots of people abandon games in the making etc. So people might be wary of buying the model.
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Yes, I do plan on finishing this game, ESPECIALLY if the model we get costs money. I wouldn't let money just go to waste buying something that won't be used. The game /will/ be finished.
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Are you needing any forum mods atm?
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We will be opening applications soon.
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Woah! I'd love to be apart of the team to create/moderate this game. It looks so cool. I'm just gonna keep stalking this thread. xD Good luck on making the game, and I hope it'll be finished!
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That lioness model is indeed one of the most realistic models I've seen in a while. I wish ye' luck in your progress with the game.
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Bump.. ._.
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Why not pay someone to make a new model for you? I know there are some people in the IT/FH community that make models for commission. It'd probably be cheaper then $50.
Goodluck with the game though I'll stalk this thread for awhile uwu
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Can't... I have like.. no money. That's why I had to ask for help from other people.. q.q
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Oh... meh... freaking... glob person... this game looks amazing! I'll defiantly be stalking this thread for updates (and in the future, the game download ^^), and that model looks so epic. ;-; Good luck with the game floof.
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Not to be the terrible downer here, but do you have anyone to CODE this thing? It looks okay, but I wouldn't want to play a game with just a cool realistic model and nothing much else...
You have a lot of plans for this, but you just opened up the forum, you haven't bought the model yet, and it doesn't even seem like you have a programmer or anything. I think you advertised WAY too early.
Good luck with your game anyway. It'd be nice to be proven wrong in a few years and see this thing set off.
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I would like... no, LOVE to help you make this game but, i'm broke too... Yet, I would also love to be a Moderator or Admin, if you'd like ;D ;)
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This seems like a very nice game but i have to agree with Galiou. Let us know how its going on the game i hope it works out seems like it would be such a fun game.
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I would rename this "Semi-Realistic. Mostly because of the pride system. Females never lead prides, unless no males are present. And a healthy lion can kill most wildebeest pretty easily. -Zoological Rant But apart from that, this is the best looking lion themed game i've seen. By far.
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What WoodDog said as well.
In all honesty, I say get a modeller like another user said. You could get a better-suited model for generic online gaming by commissioning someone on DeviantART who knows how to use those programs and make all those animations you're looking at.
(I hate to keep bringing up Aro'Kai in these threads, so I've been avoiding it. It's got 1 canine model all ready, minus animations, and they still can't release it without coding a map or anything... And that's been like 4 years already...)
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Awesome!
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I can't wait! I'd love to join this when it comes out! *Stalks Thread*
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I think we're just reviving an old thread here. He/she might be rethinking the whole plan already and well we all know that even if people managed to gather enough money they would still have to wait a few years before the team could learn the basics and build the whole system.
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This is gonna be AWESOME!! :o I can't WAIT, good luck you guys! ;)
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Not a mod but, this was last updated on January, so...
Necroing old threads is bad! M'KAY?
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Nudgin a mod to see if this is grounds for a lock. ~
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Arf. Methinks t'is okay to keep this thread open guys. It's a WIP game from what I can remember 'n it wouldn't be good to lock not only a WIP thread but a thread that's difficult to necro in the first place since we wouldn't want 4-5 threads coverin' the same game just 'cause the old(er) threads were locked simply due to someone postin' in 'em after a few months. It makes the boards cleaner and more organized. As long as the thread remains relevant to the topic and is still open for others to throw their two cents into, there's no clear reason to lock it.
However, thank ye' guys for keepin' an eye out regardless.
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Omg...amazing....I MUST PLAY IT ONCE ITS DONE OMFG XDDD amazing! Great! FABULOUSLY GORGEOUS.
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Is this game still being made? Cause it sounds promising and it would be nice to play another animal MMORPG when I get bored and while waiting for Arokai is that is still being made.
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Please do not necro old threads. The last post was in 2014, and TheFourLinks was last online at that time so it seems like they won't be replying anytime soon :P
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I'm purposely bumping this so that it may possibly be locked.
The creator of the thread and the game LionCave has most likely left and all progress on LionCave has been disbanded. Their hasn't been any activity on their website for over a year.