Foundations of Hope Online: Dragons Revisited

Game Name: Foundations of Hope Online
Technology: TGE + Torque MMO Kit
Genre: Christian Fantasy MMORPG
Company: Lethal Games Corporation
Game Website: Foundations of Hope Online

The last patch pushed out I refer to as The Dragon Patch. Finally gave the dragon players some variety and choices that was comparable to the Human and Saurian(lizard species) realms.

The biggest change was that the MoM template system was removed for the third realm. Dragons now have the ability to pick their stats, sex, classes, and color. I was also able to figure out how to let the dragons grow as they progressed. At levels 15, 30, 45, and 60 the players will increase in size and at some times change models and textures to go from a cute looking dragon to more menacing looking one. So at level 1 players start out as a tiny little hatchling and continue to grow until they are a full adult at level 60. Now that I've figured this out for the dragons, I am really thinking of using the age process for Humans and Saurians. They'd start out looking more teenagerish, then grow at level 30 and 60.

My original design was to have players play as Human and Saurians until like 20 then they can get a dragon template, but with the increasingly amount of people coming to FoHO to play as dragons, they can now create a dragon and not have to have any other realms characters.

The other two big changes were to finally have different dragon colors and five dragon classes to choose from. There is now red, blue, grey, and green options to choose when creating a dragon. The dragon class choices are Dragon Attacker, Dragon Stalker, Dragon Healer, Dragon Warcryer, Dragon Psionist. Possibly make more later, but gives enough of a variety and the ability for the dragon players to finally have a secondary and tertiary classes.

Dragons are being designed as a full out playable realm. They will be given quests and also currently have the ability to do Animal Armor Craft, Animal Weapon Craft, Poison Craft, First Aid Craft, and also do Enchanting. Even as dragons, players like to craft :)

This upcoming patch, I am now working on allowing Dragons to switch realms. It won't be faction based, but actually switching realms so they can enter Human or Saurian cities and fight along side the different realms in the RvR zones. Yeah, it will make RvR interesting and definitely add a new layer to the game.

Then in a couple more patches I will hopefully have character customization implemented. If all goes well, I'll be able to allow dragon players to pick what kind of horn style, tail style, etc. they want.

Below are pics of the adult looking and hatchling looking models with the first set of armor graphics(more to come) and some of the craftable weapon models.