ZCS is a Combat System in use in SWRP sims. It's developed by Salene Lusch and can freely get optained at Zonama Sekot and other supporting sims.
It was designed prohibit level camping, to have low management and be able to stand the lag of an openspace sim. It aims to balance the ranged vs melee fights.
Features[]
It has the following features:
- Meters shouldn't lag in fight under normal circumstances. Even on open space sims.
- It has classic powers (healing, lightning, pull, push, etc.) embedded.
- No level or central database, allowing the CS to continue to work independently of an non SL maintainance.
- Damage rate is caped: using a fast rate blaster don't make not more damage, and button smashing in melee has a limited usage.
- No regeneration while running (or hovering or swiming), and lower rate while walking. People can still run in combat to get a tactical advantage, but running around their opponent is not the standard way to heal.
- Non killing fall damages.
- The swings can only hit people forward, but blocking works in every direction.
- It has a training mode (with possible reset) and a RP mode. Also a non combatant mode and a OOC mode.
- The opponent only have a vague idea of the combatant health, but the owner know the statistics.
- Saber deflection (with a chance of failure).
- Support for saber destructibles. The devkit is public.
- A fading effect when falling unconscious in RP mode.
- Auto updates
- Embed rptool (send messages and emotes as your character name)
- Ranged damage localization (ex: shooting to the head damages more).
- Real life language support (English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch).
Classes[]
The system has no levels, it has classes corresponding to the main types of combatants in the Star Wars universe.
Melee[]
This class is typically force users using lightsabers. They can use the force powers, it's up to each one to know if their character has this ability. They can still use blasters, but have no armor.
Ranged[]
They are guys with a gun, usually armored. Even if they can do damage in melee, they can't block. On the other hand their armor can absorb damages. They can not use the force, but they can heal themself, their comrades and also fix their armor.
Hints[]
For a melee fight, you don't recover when you run, so walking or using the force to leave the engagement may be a better option than running. Try to make your opponent to swing in the air when you're resting aside.
The best location if to face the opponent's back, as their swing wouldn't touch you but yours will weaken them.
As you don't see the details of the opponent statistics, you have to take care of their behavior during the fight to guess if they're more or less healthy than you and take the appropriate decision, withdrawing to recover or continuing to attack.