A true "MMORPG". Back in the day when the genre was new, people were fascinated by the potential of virtual worlds and virtual societies. Social scientists did online studies on player behavior and the interactions people had online, on spontaneous self-governance coming into existence, on how communities formed and developed, and many other similar topics. That potential was never fulfilled. Today - some twenty year…
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#622I want to play a real-time strategy game with a limit to the number of actions per minute. Look, I'm an old man now. I can't compete on reaction speed against 13-year-olds micro-managing each unit to perfection. But I can macro. I can plan. I can strategize. I can do that better than those damn kids. I want everyone to have a pool of 5 orders, refilling itself by 1 order per (1 second? 3 seconds?). Orders can be to a…
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#623- A low-brow, open world space sim. (Yes, I'm aware of Star Citizen, No Man's Sky, Elite and all the others, but hear me out): I would love to fly my cheap, derelict Lada Riva equivalent of a spaceship into a space station. No landing sequence or wrestling away of controls, I want to land on my own and I want to land shittily. As I touch down, garbage is stirred up and space rats scurry away from the landing site. I…
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#624Same original graphics.
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#627Both Valheim and V Rising have sold millions off nothing but word of mouth and a hunger for the genre.
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#628I want my street, my house, and general geography to matter in the game. Where is the hardware store? Army bases? Water?
The game starts with a limited infection, making police response to your murdering an infected neighbor problematic. The simulation models how agents would respond.
You win by killing all the zombies, whether that's year 1 or 10. If needed, that's 7 billion.
The exhaust could be a good city simulator, zombies off, which you sell to local governments.
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#629Make me design an assembler for assembling my own robot arms, then strap them to a cart (that I assembled in a different factory), put an AI into it, and use it as a logistics robot for building more things...
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#630Mount&Blade Warband has some kind of trader system but very basic and you are not a merchant and the whole experience is not fulfilling.