MMO + RTS Hybrid

joelebrech · 2007-03-09T17:34:24

Basically the idea is having a world that is void of any building structures or technology, but the players can have characters that can build buildings, vehicles, tools, weapons out of resources that are present in the world. So every time you level up it would be a bit like moving up an age in age of empires for example. You could have different crafts, building, weapon making, smithing, lumber jacking, mining, most of the same stuff as in WoW but you can make buildings and such. So low level players would build straw huts, and higher levels could build castles. Also the bigger the structure the longer it will take even with an appropriate skill and would require additional labor. I this way an MMO could even rely on having the amount of NPCs possible, just having a few trainers for different trades. And of it wouldn't really be an RTS game without someone commanding, so an idea would be that if you party is greater than a set number than the highest ranking player can control your platoon of players, of course you can defect from the formation and still be on the team, but an MMO with huge platoons of real players would be fantastic.

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Started by joelebrech March 09, 2007 05:29 AM

10 comments, last by Xtlk 17 years, 1 month ago

Robin S

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March 09, 2007 01:31 PM

I would imagine that the skills needed by a project manager and by the builders would be very different ones. Just a thought.

Xtlk

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March 09, 2007 05:34 PM

Nice idea, good way to get ppl to work together. But as Robin S said they woud probably need different skills. ie: today in building the project manager would design it, laborers would build it, some specialists would work with electricity/plumbing. If you were building a keep you could have the leader with 100 orginization/leadership and laborers with 50 wood work/stonemason.

Thats if you want to get complicated though.

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