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Post by SwetDrems »

germinalphrase wrote: post #73

A combination of first person shooter and real time strategy. There is a large map and balanced units on each side. Each round, a team commander is chosen randomly from each team. During play, the commander sees a bird’s eye view of the current battle and directs player objectives, waypoints, etc. while everyone else is playing COD-style first person (trying to take advantage of the intelligence and goal setting from…

Hell Let Loose does something similar. Each team of 50 has one commander, and multiple squads with infantry (all human players). The squad leads communicate with the commander, their squad, and other squad leads in order to accomplish plans set by the commander. The commander can call in recon plans, artillery, tanks. Good communication and coordination can win games. It is a rather brutal game though.

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Post by pornel »

mattlondon wrote: post #80

I want a sort of civilization-but-for-countries. E.g. you are the newly elected president of Afghanistan/North Korea/Iraq/Other etc - now go rebuild infrastructure etc, set policies, see how the country develops as a result. E.g. do you invest in universal healthcare, or transport infrastructure? Is transport infra required while your country is still largely subsistence farming?. What about education - save money th…

I'm currently obsessed with an idea of scaling SimCity-like simulation to a whole country. Since it's infeasible to place roads and buildings manually at such scale, it would have to have an AI to grow cities automatically based on simulated demand and higher-level policies.

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Post by ed312 »

germinalphrase wrote: post #73

A combination of first person shooter and real time strategy. There is a large map and balanced units on each side. Each round, a team commander is chosen randomly from each team. During play, the commander sees a bird’s eye view of the current battle and directs player objectives, waypoints, etc. while everyone else is playing COD-style first person (trying to take advantage of the intelligence and goal setting from…

Natural Selection (2) is close on a round-by-round basis, but isn't an RPG. https://store.steampowered.com/app/4920/Natural_Selection_2/

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Post by maerF0x0 »

I want FutureCop: LAPD Precinct Assault Mode . But as a team based MMORTS, and allow players to enter first person mode and assume control of a unit to do combat. It doesnt necessarily have to be future & robots either.

A MMORTS play as a general mode combined with Call of Duty + Team Fortress first person play w/ objectives, capture points, sniping, vehicles etc...

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Post by lcw »

tjansen wrote: post #104

Tribes 2 with modern graphics for modern platforms, and maybe an Apex Legends-like Battle Royale mode. I don't think that there has ever been a better multiplayer FPS. When you're used to jetpacks and skiing, most other FPS feel slow. And there is nothing as elegant as killing with slow ballistic projectiles like the Spin Fusor. Apex Legends has got some of the aspects that made T2 so great, especially if you play Va…

I would take that a step further, and say more like Tribes 1 with modern graphic. I feel like the modding community was out of control in a good way on Tribes 1. Flying around with unlimited jetpack and a automatic sniper rifle in Ultra Renegades trying to capture a flag that's is in a base that's booby-trapped with a bunch of turrets was way ahead of it's time.

It still blows my mind that 007 Golden Eye existed as a popular game at the same time with Starsiege: Tribes when they were worlds apart in quality and gameplay.

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Post by kN0Xygn »

Vehicular combat with mechanics as polished as Rocket League. Inspiration could be drawn from Twisted Metal and cart racers like Mario Kart. I see Rocket League players make incredible aerial shots and think "what if they had to line up a projectile with an enemy in the air"

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Post by freediver »

I always dreamed of creating a MUD which would have one world split over two totally seperate servers (and even advertised as two separate MUDs). The players on one server would appear as NPCs to the players in the other MUD and vice-versa. This would lead to whole range of interesting interactions as the players on one MUD would see "NPCs" behave "intelligently", even attacking them proactively etc.

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Post by teraflop »

dkersten wrote: post #58

Something I've always wanted to play is a game multiplayer game (ideally firt or third person) where you and a small number of friends crew a space ship. Each person has their own role (navigator, weapons, pilot, etc) and you would fly through space and engage in combat. Star Trek: Bridge Crew comes closest to what I'm talking about. Imagine that but not VR (well, VR is cool for this, but I don't have a VR headset, s…

Spaceteam is sort of an extreme abstraction of this idea.
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