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The Gods of the Machine

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I like the idea of the player doesn't have magic powers but instead can control the technology around them. My thoughts on a leveling system for something like this would be that you have diffrent fields for your Core and you either put points into increasing a core value or the fields increase through use.
Instead of having "magic" spells or abilites your abilites relate to the values in those fields. For instance causing smart bullets to fly back at the attacker or using the nanites in persons body to take control of the person would all be a matter of having the right number of points ane utilizing the correct type of machine ability.
Abilites like:
Hack
Control
Influence
Alter
Destroy

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So control depending on your core levels could allow to you activate a planets climate control system to cause rain, stop a cybernetic enhanced creature from moving, assinate a vip by stopping their pace maker or start a way by causing the guns on a ship to open fire on an ally.

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My mine concern with this like your previous idea was size.

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I feel that a large open end world can quickly become null. Espically if I don't feel I'm going anyway in the game and wasting most of my time traveling from place to place, or wasting it in the same place since there doesn't seem to be any where interesting to go. That why I think the idea of the player being hunted is a good one. If you can keep the player with a sense of always being on the move and trying to keep on step ahead of their pursures it would make for a more interesting game. Thats my thoughts anyway, I for one have always disliked the fact that in most openended game nothing much happens, and even important will gladly stay on hold until I'm ready to experince them.

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I like your setting idea. It gives me a distinct reminder of the last half of Deus Ex. The whole quantum computing ghost-in-the-machine sort of thing. You could do a lot with that.

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If you haven't played Star Control 2, I'd like to recommend it... it sounds somewhat like what you're trying to do, although much more limited.

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Good; lots of opportunities. .. Ooh insane AI nice idea, like it!

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Siegers ? silly name.

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‘devoured entire empires in a few decades’ --- ‘improbably rescuer arrives from no where for no good reason!’ (quote from Danger Mouse; erm, too much of a cliche)

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‘Beserker’ series (Fred Saberhagen) idea (In short: large planet killing machines made by an ancient race to wipe out another other ancient race; They did that, very well.);
Terminator (movie) idea: If people there = bad; people here = bad ? *processessing*... (Perhaps cause of mega AI's insanity ?)

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Swarm of intergalactic locusts ? (cheesy random event :P)
erm..
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Von Neuman nanotechnology? Yes, that would work, but there's a problem with that...

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Either way, I think it nice to have the galaxy's downfall due to the inhabitants’ actions/pompousness and such. Nice subtle moral lesson ;)

This is actually what I'm trying to avoid. What I don't like about it is it's as badly an overdone trope as what you cited above. Worse, though, it's the familiar "sinner complex" storyline which I think we've been obsessed with in SF since the late 1970s. Either we kill ourselves with nukes, nanotech, biotech, or environmental mistreatment.

What would happen, though, if it was a matter of fate? That notion gives our modern day mania for control and personal manifest destiny an upset stomach, but I think the ancient Greeks would understand it.

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Now, hundreds of years later, society struggles back from the brink. Much of society has fallen into various tech levels ranging from barbarian to barely spacefaring. Space travel still exists, largely thanks to a few worlds, but it is primitive (think Babylon 5). But behind the scenes a few groups have retained Galactic power and are viciously fighting to shape the galaxy in their own image.

Oh plausible.. good good.

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Setting: Different worlds around the galaxy, some high tech, many backward and struggling to survive. Randomly generated but with key hand-created locations.

That works.

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Setup:
All your life you've been strange.

I know.

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Sometimes you hear voices, but can't always understand what they say. Sometimes you know of danger before it happens. You can get into doors that have been sealed for centuries. You're never sick. Once, when you were a child, you fell off a cliff and broke so many bones you should have died. But you survived by eating shiny rocks, and after a few days, you were fine.

Shiny rocks? Did I get a side of moss with that ? (aka um, yea right; make sure to flesh this part out well)

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On your world, you were called a Machine Talker, and the brutal theocracy persecuted everyone like you. When they discovered your gift, you had to flee. Now you've arrived at a destinatation that's been calling you, the most advanced world known in the galaxy.

'Machine Talker' .. well have to be called something I guess.

oh persecuted.. reason for conflict and adventure; good.

'inner voice' = plot/how to play help for no good reason; Good.

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Your hope is to build a new life. But soon you learn that your gifts are accelerating. You suddenly have the power to control more and more. And now people are trying to kill you.

My hope is to find answers.
Oh people trying to kill me; more conflict etc. Reasonable/Good.

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Ultimately, you learn that you are central to the plans of one of many Illuminati factions, each backed by a fragment of the godlike AI that once served Galactic civilization. You carry miraculous, lost Galactic technology throughout your body, passed down over the generations. Now, a faction has infected you with the seed for a Core, a new, ultrapowerful AI that, if it gains enough power, could assimilate all others.

Cool, the plot thickens!

you carry..miraculous..lost..technology ... neat, I'm special..


infected me.. hum, ok someone is on my shit list..

My first thought was build new core at expense of character so obviously character's self preservation kicks in and doesn’t want this to happen.; Seems not what you intend though; I don't really understand Character/Core relation.

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If that was not bad enough, the faction's rivals want to neutralize or assimilate YOU, using their own Corekeepers. As a pawn without any guidance, you must survive your attackers and ultimately face the Illumaniti group that did this to you.

Sounds like adventure to me, and promising.




Game play screams RPG to me. But then I like RPG more than RTS.