Game-U-would like to see

[ToxicSlurpee]

I would absolutely LOVE to see a sci-fi MMORPG that let players wage wars, build capital ships, and make militaries and such. Basically, the worlds are created and populated with NPCs, but players can fight over them and such.

I figure it would take the combined efforts of dozens (at least) to build a big capital ship and staff it, while single-man fighters could be rolling around and dogfighting. Then, the battle takes to the planet and a horde of individual players swarm over the world as ground troops...

'course, I doubt that'll ever happen. I don't think computers, as they stand right now, could quite handle that amount of ridiculousness.

[Aiken]

Cyberpunk RPG with a scary atmosphere of the System Shock or paranoid enviroment of the Omicron: The Nomad Soul and non-linearity of Deus Ex 1 or Planescape: Torment.

[Gandalf Parker]

@Deccan: sounds like what Ultima Online has become with all of the private shards. Something im just beginning to get back into.

@ToxicSlurpee: sounds like what Star Wars Galaxies has become. Im looking into it now to see if the latest changes have gone smoothly

new thought As for the size of the universe, there has been methods put forth that allow for a huge universe to exist with no storage at all, at least as far as exploring. And I mean really REALLY huge.

Of course as soon as anything is done to make a "permanent" change to the default then that would have to be stored. So any planet which is found and populated would need storage space. Maybe something at SourceForge could be created where the code shares a "huge galaxy" (using the non-random algorythm method), a common site such as HugeGalaxie.com could maintain a server list which can flag AxW2F9HY as altered from the original with a player-run server location for playing on that planet or system or quadrant.

That could be interesting. Play the galaxy on your own machine but when you come to a spot that the central server has flagged as a "populated" location get refered to that server by a method such as UOgateway uses for player-run shards. There would be tech, fantasy, various book-based, and some totally new Versions of worlds. Hmmm I can see how it could be done. The only major headache to iron out would be the "rules" of administration which would keep one quadrant from polluting another with "Monty Haul" equipment. Some sort of super-powerful race acting as customs officials I guess.