http://procrastinationamplification.com/space-battle-mmo/ Punditry on MMOs and games in general. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:08:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://procrastinationamplification.com/space-battle-mmo/comment-page-1/#comment-280 belthil Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:01:13 +0000 http://procrastinationamplification.com/?p=639#comment-280 I think the problem is that these games are more or less 3 games in one and will be expensive to produce. you gotta have a first person shooter for the scooters, a flight simulation for the fighters and a strategy game for coordinating it all. you will probably also need some interfaces in between like how to issue commands to you foot soldiers and fighters. Then you'd have to balance the numbers... how do you find 50 fighter pilots for each 1 carrier ship commander for example. I think putting all that a single game would probably the best game ever made... but it is probably very very hard to pull of. I think the problem is that these games are more or less 3 games in one and will be expensive to produce. you gotta have a first person shooter for the scooters, a flight simulation for the fighters and a strategy game for coordinating it all. you will probably also need some interfaces in between like how to issue commands to you foot soldiers and fighters. Then you’d have to balance the numbers… how do you find 50 fighter pilots for each 1 carrier ship commander for example.
I think putting all that a single game would probably the best game ever made… but it is probably very very hard to pull of.

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