🎉 Celebrating 25 Years of GameDev.net! 🎉

Not many can claim 25 years on the Internet! Join us in celebrating this milestone. Learn more about our history, and thank you for being a part of our community!

Back to Game Design and Theory

Whe will I find a game like this available?

Imperitus · 2000-10-01T00:07:18

Presence General Description: A massive multi player strategy/action simulation with a continuing personal presence, that would allow players to set up and run automated systems that will continue to work for them even while they are offline. It would combine multiple styles of game play into a seamless fluid game environment in which they can choose their path to power. Multiple fields of play: That the player can move between. 1) Action: action space fighter simulation 2) Strategy: real time strategy 3) Political: political and financial power struggles Action Stage Players start with enough credit to buy a single space fighter or transport. Which they can use to fly mission either selected from pre defined jobs, or given to them by other players. Using money earned on missions a player may upgrade his ship or buy other equipment. (Similar to Privateer 2 the darkening) Strategy Stage Once a player collects enough money, or credit he can start to buy autonomous equipment such as artillery robots or mining colonies. He can then use them to build a stronghold and take control of a system. Automated systems continue to function while the player is offline, holding their ground and defending themselves as instructed by simple programming interface. If a players base is destroyed while he is offline he restarts in a neutral zone. Players ships are not able to be attacked while he is offline, only external systems remain present. (Similar to Star craft / Home World) Political Stage Players can form alliances to help defend their holdings while offline. They can hire other players to run missions in exchange for cash or equipment. Players in the employ of other players can receive free ship servicing at the bases owned by the employer, the employer receives a percent of all money earned by the employee. Any autonomous systems deployed by the employee while in service are owned and controlled by the employer but remain controllable by the employee as well unless the employer takes direct control of them. Once a player controls a system with a population they have a vote on the ‘council’ which allows them to take an active part in the law/rule formation of the universe the game inhabits. The greater their holdings/population controlled the more votes they have. (Similar to Civilization call to power)

Game Design and Theory Game Design

Started by Imperitus September 18, 2000 03:07 PM

23 comments, last by Imperitus 23 years, 9 months ago

crazy166

122

September 22, 2000 12:12 PM

consouls is how it''s spelled in england

i like the idea of strategic/fps game. i''m not a HUGE fan of rts, and i''ve never played MMORPG. but i like fps, so i would like to be a "grunt". has this been done already? i think it would be a great mix. maybe when grunt dies, he respawns "on deck" to be deployed by the "commander". instead of one death, that''s it. would be more of a rts game with real people controlling the forces.
my apologies for being ignorant on this issue, since i don''t play online games often, but if there''s something like that, i''d love to play.

crazy166
some people think i'm crazy, some people know i am

Anonymous

September 24, 2000 09:43 PM

quote: Original post by CodePlayEatSleep

Okay, don''t flame me...
There is this game called Battle Cruiser Millennium a sequel to the game Battle Cruiser 3000ad. I know you probably heard some bad things about BC3000ad, but I''m looking forward to the new Battle Cruiser with the updated graphics, gameplay.

This would be written by the "well known" Ph.D. fraud, proven liar, lawsuit threatening, racist email forger, bankrupt Derek Smart. (All these comments about Derek are true)

snip lies put out by Derek about BCM

Please, don''t judge this game by it''s take-2 fiasco.

You mean Derek lying to Take2, don''t you??

Wouldn''t you want to play a game like this? Let''s hope 3000ad will succeded in creating the ultimate space simulation.

snip
For more info on Derek, his fake Ph.D, his bankruptcy, his lawsuit threats etc go to: http://www.werewolves.org/~follies/

Supreme commander

Fremmed

122

September 26, 2000 07:13 AM

quote: Original post by Dak Lozar

I read an article a few years ago where one of the designers said he could envision players from all over the net playing theire favorite sim (jet,tank,battleship...) and linking up with other players on the net to fight virtual war games.

hey! that''s MY idea! MINE I TELLS YA!

*dang*

Ingenu

1,631

September 26, 2000 07:35 AM

This is Hypernovae.
(http://hnovae.sourceforge.net beta site, the old one is down)

We are 10 working on it on our free time.

It''s a kind of ELITE online (MMORPG)

Will be Opensource and available on BeOS, Linux, MacOS and windows.

-* So many things to do, so little time to spend. *-

-* So many things to do, so little time to spend. *-

SPAR

122

October 01, 2000 12:07 AM

TradeWars 2002

🎉 Celebrating 25 Years of GameDev.net! 🎉

Whe will I find a game like this available?

This topic is closed to new replies.

Popular Topics

Recommended Tutorials

🎉 Celebrating 25 Years of GameDev.net! 🎉

Whe will I find a game like this available?

This topic is closed to new replies.

Popular Topics

Recommended Tutorials

Reticulating splines