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[INCyr]

Game Idea...

[DreamOfTheRood]

I like this idea.

[Grifter_7]

I'd play. This is a cool idea. Also you could have Clans competeing and the highest ranked clans be Special Forces units.

[INCyr]

[thunderclap8]

dibs on Ewok commander

[water10]

So, this game would function like halo, on a daily basis, with max 16-32 players and only once you'd run an event like this? I don't think it would work. I think events like this would be more suited to a game like Huxley, which is going to be a MMOFPS. These kinda games would be optimized for a lot of people and could handle this a lot easier!

I don't think you can just organize an event like this on a regular 32-50 multiplayer game like PD0 and Halo2, just cause they're not designed for massive events like this.

So, basically, I love the idea of events like this. It gives you a sense of immersion like nothing else! It also rewards you a lot more than a daily match on halo2. I'd love a MMOFPS that would have their daily gameplay and once in a while (1/month, maybe) have some huge events like this! I was just hoping that another MMOFPS would come along, cause I don't like Huxley pos-apocalyptic style ...

[Grifter_7]

So what if the MMOFPS game started off in small individual groups say 100 players on each server, with their own individual distinct locations (Each server has a distinct environment: IE. Jungle, Dessert, City,) Think Mulitplayer maps from H2 but on a much, much larger scale. As time goes by the different locations are linked together (Servers connect together and allow players to migrate from one server to the other flawlessly.) thus the gaming environment increases and allows players to explore new areas.
The linking of locations continues over time until all locations are linked, bring about the beginning of the great battle which INCyr was refereing to.

The players that started off in a location would then have to fight to keep out enemies from other locations. Locations could create alliances, nations, etc.

[INCyr]

[water10]

[Jotacon]

On a small side note: Clans could be platoons or something similar. (Like the idea by the way, but I see Water's point)

[vortech]

[skilletaudio]

You're talking about the design and building of a complex, high-load server farm designed to handle and manipulated hundreds upon hundreds of characters in one massive, one-day event, not to mention the DB of an entire game to form around that structure, which would mean a game that was so solidly coded, running on such a powerful system that it will be able to smoothly handle hundreds of people running about and shootings things within the view frustrum, and generate enough sales of the game based on this prospect to win back all the money invested pluf profit through this single, one day event as opposed to teh monthly fees over large subscription bases that currently keep the MMORPG companies from going bankrupt?

This would be a recipe for bankruptcy, ,or in the case of microsoft...a really, really bad third quarter.

Dont forget, handling the position and velocity vectors, physics, mechanics, ,interactions and graphics associated with the actions of hundreds of people, thousands of events per second and millions of bullets and targets would cripple a console of any kind, you'd probably have to have a good hunk of the brainwork going on server-side and then you can slap another 20% onto the entire cost of the hootenanny. Not to mention that this entire server farm would have to be completely protected against
A) DOS attacks, B) Non-Deliberat dDOS from thousands of conneect players, C) Absolutely no mechanical failure, and D) absolutely NO software bugs, because there is one chance to get this whole thing right.
You can take all the costs before this and double them.

So, by this point, I think we've got a game thats going to cost somewhere near 8-10 million dollars to create.

[vortech]

[SuperJerms]

Easy answer to the hacking side, and possibly the server side (though impossibly far-fetched): Have the U.S. Army behind it. What if America's Army was the game? I know it would not work with the current generation AA, but believe that an Army-based game would probably not get haxed. Also, they could use it for recruitment. Finally, maybe they would have the leverage to commandeer a superpower WOPR-like mainframe for a day to do the processing.

Come on, don't any of you remember War Games? It would totally work, so long as we don't make the computer play itself.

[Atrophied]

Fancy a game of tic-tac-toe?