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Originally Posted by Spotfist

Don't see the need for much personality in the NPC's as it's an MMO but perhaps Dave was pointing towards an all encompassing galaxy story that must be interesting to keep the player playing...

Would be nice to have "events" happen that can change the course of the game, would be awesome say for different factions to see each other differently and perhaps the owner of the game i.e Teamer could instigate wars by say paying more for one faction to attack another kind of like a bounty, one player would therefore feel compeled to attack the other while the other player sees it as random unprevoked attackes from some evil faction.

In elite the only real AI was the pirates and police I recall (hopefully correctly) I like the idea of having some areas of a game safer than other but obviously the real money is far away, mining etc...

MOO had good interaction between species and the longer you conversed with one the better your alliance, allowing for better trade and exchange of technology but another race could undermine this allience using sabotage.

Teamer do you plane to have any actual flying? I know you said no 3D and perhaps doing something like StarControl would be a bit much but I assume something like that of Master of Orion could be done fairly simply? Ever played it?

Originally Posted by Spotfist

I WANNA TEST IT WHILE DEVELOPING!

Moo work by having "fleets" where a "fleet" is any number of ships of different types, so as an example if you wanted to attack a colony you would have say 2 destroyers , 10 fighters and say 5 bombers. The bombers are for planet bombardment, fighter for fighting and maybe the destroyers firing at range (these could also fire on planets)

You could do the same thing if you wanted to say go mining, you would send a fleet of x many mining craft backed up by a defence force. MOO was turn based though... I assume you are working on time?

The fleets were shown by a simple icon and then the combat was turn based but again an MMORPG may have players offline so combat would have to be automated, I asked a similar question a while ago here

http://www.gamedev.net/topic/611557-auto-combat-system/

In this kind of game people don't have to focus on the "sim" part of the game and can go round trying to kill other players for loot, economins isn't for everyone.

Originally Posted by Spotfist

I think I just wet myself!

Originally Posted by Spotfist

Don't see the need for much personality in the NPC's as it's an MMO but perhaps Dave was pointing towards an all encompassing galaxy story that must be interesting to keep the player playing...