Brainstorming for IRCRPG

/* BRAINSTORMING FOR IRCRPG */
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Fallout-inspired mechanics:
- S.P.E.C.I.A.L. character attributes (Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence, Agility, Luck)
- Player has 40 points available to distribute among the 7 attributes (between 1 and 10 points each) that cannot be changed after character creation, so has to choose wisely, according to their playing style.
 - Strength: modifies weight one can carry and raw melee damage output in combat
 - Perception: modifies one's ability to detect opponents, items and unusual things in the wild. Allows one to accurately estimate the opponent's attributes and carried weight. Allows one to see players traveling to or from a location.
 - Endurance: modifies one's base health points and movement speed around the map
 - Charisma: modifies the size of the party one can lead and some responses from NPCs and vendor prices
 - Intelligence: modifies magic ability, dialogue options and the amount of XP one gets from skill actions
 - Agility: modifies dodging ability during combat, attack speed and movement speed around the map
 - Luck: modifies critical hit chance during combat and various luck based encounters
- Pseudo-turn-based combat (limited time per turn)
- Random encounters that have a chance to occur while moving around the map where you meet people or find items. Low Luck increases chance of negative encounters and vice versa.
- All choices and actions have consequences and permanently affect your options and outcomes later in the game
- Using too many potions in a short time causes addiction and withdrawal affects
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Story/lore:
- Slightly fantasy-themed medieval setting. Magic is available but relatively hard to train and frowned upon by the NPCs.
- The game doesn't take itself too seriously
- Featuring occasional tongue-in-cheek humor, out-of-setting stuff, Easter eggs, pop culture references and inside/self-referencing jokes
- Plenty of side-quests, some quests requiring co-operation with other players, doing quests for certain people makes you hated by their enemies who won't give you quests anymore
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The world map:
- Randomly generated and unknown to the player before exploring it.
- The starting area and its vicinity, along with several other villages are Safe - no PvP can occur there
 - The rest of the world is not safe and anybody can attack anybody anywhere if spotted
- Features approx. half-a-dozen different types of terrain that each have different modifiers to gameplay
- Sea and rivers can only be crossed if you craft or buy a raft or find a bridge etc.
- Size of approx 100x100 squares (locations)
- Traveling takes a base amount of 1 minute per square, modified by player's Agility, Endurance, carried weight, speed modifying equipment and terrain speed modifiers
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Items:
- Almost all items and tools that are useful in the game are player-created, almost nothing can be bought from NPCs
- Some things such as alchemy reagents can be gathered by simply walking around the world and picking them up from the ground
- Equipment does not have skill-level requirements to use, so good equipment can be used right off the bat if you can afford it or have friends who do
- Some useful equipment such as push-carts crafted by players assist in carrying more items
- Each player can choose to rent a house somewhere in-game where they can safely store items
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Skills:
- In general, it doesn't take very long or much effort to raise skills up until the skill level cap, for example if you chop wood it can take up to 5 minutes to receive one log
- Skill-specific key-points:
 - Melee: experience in melee combat increases damage potential and accuracy
 - Magic: learned through NPC mentors and allows for various spells used for damage, healing, enchanting, maybe teleportation, etc. Experience increases mana
 - Archery: allows to deal damage to unsuspecting NPCs and people from a distance, experience increases damage and accuracy
 - Mining: allows for recognition and extraction of useful minerals and ores
 - Smithing: allows for creation of metal weaponry and armor
 - Woodcutting: allows for chopping of trees and harvesting logs for use in woodcraft or making fires
 - Crafting: allows for creation of leather armor, jewellery, bows and various tools
 - Alchemy: allows for creation of potions that have various effects from temporary skill or attribute increases to healing or poisoning. Reagents can be gathered through the wilderness, combinations for recipes and their effects have to be figured out by the players or by finding an NPC who knows some ;)
 - Fishing: allows to extract various fish from bodies of water
 - Cooking: allows to skillfully cook said fish, animal meat gotten from hunting, etc. Food heals you.
 - Thieving: allows to pickpocket NPCs (they will hate you if you get caught) and players. Experience increases success rate.
- Maybe:
 - Tongue-in-cheek passive skills like Breathing, Walking, Idling, Speaking, Sleeping, Procrastination etc.
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Combat:
- Pseudo-turn-based, turns have limited time but a high Agility allows a combatant to perform more actions within the same amount of time. If the defendant is AFK or logged off they simply attack back but obviously can't use any items
- If you die you drop everything that's on you free for anybody in that location to pick up, respawn in the starting point and lose most (or all?) of experience gained
- PvP can be initiated anywhere outside of the safe zones. For that to happen the player has to spot their prey (based on Perception) and initiate combat after which both players have 10 seconds to prepare.
- If one of the combatants wishes to flee combat they may but the opponent may run after them and if they have higher Agility and less carried weight than the runner, they have a good chance to catch them
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Far future development ideas:
- A downloadable GUI for mIRC users that will allow the game to be played with less typing required and some visual representations
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Currently working commands:
 register <password>
 login <password>
 logout
 restart
 create char # # # # # # #
 help
 go/walk/travel <N/E/S/W>
 return
 are we there yet