Hello everyone and thanks for taking a look at this thread. I bought this game back on Jan 1 2014 and instantly fell in love with it. The concept of it is great and I enjoyed playing it until I burned myself out after playing it for about 2 months.
Recently I decided to start playing it again and am again enjoying the game, however, I can already tell that I am going to burn myself out again which makes me sad. I was hoping that GHG would have put out some type of DLC by now since I remember reading the “FUTURE PLANS” post back in December of 2014, but they haven’t and I can’t see much they have posted since then in regards to GDT.
A friend suggested I look into the Steam Workshop to see what users have created and I did, but the only thing that really caught my eye was the Multiplayer Mod. Unfortunately, the mod did not work for me so I could not use it.
However, this got me to thinking. If GHG made a Multiplayer mode it would probably take alot of time and energy along with having to put up servers or release a executable so players could create there own server. This to me seemed unrealistic based off reading the post back in December so I thought to myself that a nice little DLC or Addon would be some type of “Rival Mode”
This is how I envision Rival Mode working:
(Person 1)
You play the game normally without any mods
The game records everything you do and the time frame you do it in. (I think it does this already)
It then saves that data when you complete the game or go bankrupt
(Person 2 [friend of person 1])
Plays the game normally
During the game they can click on an additional option in the menu to compare stats to their friends.
For instance at Year 3 Month 2 Week 3 If Person to clicks on Compare Stats or Rival Mode it shows a list of what their friends have accomplished by that time in their best game for instance (Games Made, Average Rating, Number of Sales, Money, Fans, etc)
This way a player could compare themselves to their friends without having to play with them directly.
The times could be based on the same time or based yearly or more realistically quarterly. So instead of having to save all the data from a players game it would only have to save 4 points of information a year that the “rival” player could compare themselves too.
This could also be implemented across all players that play the game and not only players that are on your friends list, however, i assume there are ways to cheat in the game which would make an “All Player Scoreboard” easily compromised.
Anyway that is my idea and i was wondering on what people think about it.
