A New Space Empires Game Idea

Atrocities · #1 January 6th, 2004, 10:40 AM

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Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:

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Basically you were a player playing a RPG quest game and you could recruit other members for your team to help you find the lost artifact. Along the way you would journey to planets, buy star ships, upgrade them, do battle in space, land on planets to carry out your quests, and gain material to sell and upgrade your weapons, armor, and so on. Do battle on planets, in space, and on bases and ships.

sounds like you have more interesting dreams than me...and Last night, i dreamt that i was a wizard with nanotechnology and a terminater was coming after me. and that's about par for my dreams. there was more before that, but that's what i remember.

If you dreamed what I dreamed, you would commit suicide.

Puke · #2 January 6th, 2004, 10:44 AM

ah, its totally like that, just missing the party aspect. get to run around on a planet, or on a base, or on a ship. get to fly the shuttles, get to fly the ship. get to do quests with aliens. its a shooter. its a flight sim. its a rpg. its a trading and economic game. it walks the dog, it mows the lawn.

anyway, perhaps you are more after something along the lines of Traveller or Mega Traveller. computergames made after the pen-and-paper RPGs of the same name. did a really good job, manage your party, run arround in cities, upgrade your ship, go to different planets and fight off pirates and aliens. you might be able to find old copies on abandonware sites.

or maybe you just want to make a SE4 mod for Runesword or Dungeon Odessy. only thing you woud be missing is the 3d space combat, though you could have 2d tile based stuff.

Atrocities · #3 January 6th, 2004, 10:47 AM

So wouldn't you enjoy having a game like this based upon SEIV and moddable like SEIV? Come on now, why not expand the market for SEIV beyond 4 x and Flight sim?

Atrocities · #4 January 6th, 2004, 10:56 AM

Battle Cruiser 30002.6
terrible
It will go down in legend as the most bug-ridden, unstable, unplayable pieces of software ever released. - T. Liam McDonald

I read the review of the game and it does not sound anything like what I suggested. I think you got your games crossed Puke.

dogscoff · #5 January 6th, 2004, 03:32 PM

I had a cool idea for a game a few years back, wher eyou were raiding wrecked ships for bits and cobbling together ships out of salvaged parts. It had strategic elements as well, let's call it "junk empires".

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I just typed out an incredibly long description of how this game would work, but I soon realised that it is actually just Elite with a whol load of fleet/ management/ 4X stuff bolted on.

Imagine Elite with the following additions:
-The Ability to board wrecked ships and carry away cargo & components.
-Ability to buy/sell ship components like you can with cargo.
-Ability to own a workshop and use it to build components into new ships/ upgrade existing ships/ perform upgrades for paying customers.
-Space stations/ asteroid bases/ planetary bases that you can own, develop and manage. (Ownership by conquest, purchase or colonisation)
-Consistent AI Commanders and organisations that operate just like human players and remember their standing with you (ie diplomacy)
-Consistent and evolving political backdrop that you can affect.
-Ability to crew multiple ships and send them off individually or in fleets to carry out your instructions.

Basically you could start off as a guy in a ship and through careful trading/ piracy/ mercenary work/ scavenging build yourself up into a galactic force, moving from single tactical encounters to large scale 4X strategic operations. Ministers and AI would have to be excellent to make this really work, since it would soon become impossible to handle everything personally, but just imagine how cool it would be...

dogscoff · #6 January 6th, 2004, 04:44 PM

Interesting: http://www.lostinflatspace.com/

Puke · #7 January 6th, 2004, 09:11 PM

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Originally posted by Atrocities:
Battle Cruiser 30002.6
terrible
It will go down in legend as the most bug-ridden, unstable, unplayable pieces of software ever released. - T. Liam McDonald

I read the review of the game and it does not sound anything like what I suggested. I think you got your games crossed Puke.

instead of reading the revies, go read the intended feature lists for Battlecruiser Millineum and its Gold Version, at www.3000ad.com. sure it didnt turn out great, but thats my point about biting off more than you can chew.

Anyway, as indicated on another thread, dig up an old copy of Sundog: The Frozen Legacy at the same time you are looking for an old copy of the Megatraveller game. Its got everything you want, too. Fly your ship, fight pirates, walk around a city, get in gunfights with robbers, go to a bar and buy black market goods, drive your rover across town, but be careful not to get a parking ticket.. They really knew how to make games back then.