07-16-2023, 07:06 AM
About the story telling, the dream about telling some amazing story in lc is just far fetched. How do you even want to do it? Have great quest dialogues or even some voice acting with some cinematic stuff? All of this would cost you hundreds of hours of work probably.
Even if you decide to just have a great story in english, then you are neglecting like the entirety of the community that is not fluent in english and any potential "new" players you want to get onto your server. You'd then have to literally hire people to make good translations that will actually do all of this.
If you want a cutscene, then you'd have to find someone that even knows how you could trigger such cutscenes in the first place and rig them all to make sense or even train someone to even learn it. This will of course also cost you a ton of hours and money. And honestly, if you don't just want a still image of your character next to some mob doing an animation then you probably also need someone to modify the entirety of the implemented code and make something that even allows you to do more than that efficiently.
You said it yourself, you don't have the budget for a LC 2.0.
Just as a reminder, these are some of the things you'd have to pay for/account for if you actually want to do something with the current game:
Hosting your server
Developers that actually know what they are doing, as a reference: In germany the average software developer that just finished the most "basic" education gets around 45k a year (gross, not net.), which is like 2.3k-2.5k a month. These aren't numbers for people who did their masters or whatever. People with work experience, no matter the education level, can cost up to or if not more than double than this.
And now you gotta think about just how much stuff you want this person to literally do for you. If you actually want to make the best out of this game then you'd need dev(s) for Web Development, Tool/API Development, Engine/Server Development and whatever else.
Getting all of this in one person is not really something you'd find and even if you did, it would take idk how many years for him to do all of the required things that you might need.
I'm not quoting these numbers just to say "oh this is how much they will charge you!" but these are the numbers that they currently work fulltime with or can work with if they want to. It's money that does not have an asterisk (*) behind it when you get payed out. You'd somehow have to not only meet these peoples standards but also make them feel comfortable to work on something that has no real future.
You can of course get less skilled individuals onboard, but your vision will become much more unrealistic and it will also never turn out how you want it to be.
Your general team, that isn't just devs. Finding people you can trust is already hard enough but now you gotta find people that either do this for free and not backstab you or you gotta pay up. And even then you'd have to find people that you can trust in this community.
Advertisements like the one you've been talking about
Potentially lawyers that have a get out of jail card for everything.
But your vision of it being this game that feels fresh and newbie friendly and everything is just not a reality that you can afford or achieve in these next years. I'm like 99% sure that you won't find any skilled individuals that can bring your idea to life without either charging you a bunch or leaving you midway through for this never ending idea for this game engine from almost 20 years ago that you shouldn't even have access to like this in the first place.
You can find these kinds of people outside of this section, making games with Unity, Unreal, Godot etc. but not here.