Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?

Mode 1: You create an account and are given a small ship. You and your dinky ship fly around the universe making trades and doing missions. There are pirates and you tend to get exploded a lot and flying around is tricky because the planets have gravity. You trade and get rich and buy bigger ships. Then you become even more rich and start buying automated ships that will make trades and go on trade runs 24/7 while you're not playing. Pirates blow up those ships and steal the loot, so you buy bigger routes with guard ships. You start posting missions for new players to guard your fleets. You become very very rich and start buying on-planet real estate or maybe whole planets and customizing them. You're managing your fleets and missions and contracts and stuff mostly from your mobile phone at this point without actually logging in and flying around.

Mode 2: you don't create an account. You're just a pirate. Nearly the whole world is hostile to you. It will only take a couple of hours of play to grow from a tiny pirate to a universe-threatening dreadnought the likes of which the average account-holding players couldn't afford, but as soon as you stop playing, your pirate ship is lost and you must start again.

Basically an instance based game where you gather a team of dungeon delvers to explore a dungeon and get good loot. You would have to pick your loadout (equipment and skills) according to what you think would be needed to dungeoneer successfully for the given challenges of a dungeon. On death you would lose all the equipment you brought, but you wouldn't lose your level or skills.

Dungeons would have different challenges. So one might be a close quarters crypt like some Mayan or Egyptian pyramid. One might be a larger ancient city like Atlantis. Some a mix of both. The NPC enemies, traps, and puzzles could be random each time based on a pool of the types for those dungeons.

There would be other groups of competing adventurers trying to get through the dungeon, but I think the dungeons should be scaled so that running into them is less likely than say the game "Escape from Tarkov". Also I think the game should do a dice roll while match making to determine whether a given match has no opposing teams or many opposing teams. This will keep you on your feet PvP wise but allow the game to focus mostly PvE. PvP here mostly serves the purpose of providing a challenge to players that can't be "solved" since the ingenuity and unpredictability of players is greater than that of typical AI.

This game looked like a lot of fun. It’s a bummer that it got canceled.

For example, you can tell a soldier, "attack this general area" or "attack in this direction", but you can't actually micromanage their movement and other actions.

Then you introduce mechanics/stats like "communication effectiveness", "professionalism", "morale" which increase or decrease the precision, latency, and effectiveness of commands. For example, an elite special forces unit might have perfect command reception, allowing you to micro it. But a grunt would have very low reception and need a nearby commander's aura to boost their reception and allow even the most basic commands through.