The perfect MMO Pt. 1

So, after reading another blog (Tim Buckley is awesome!) that I regularly read, I had an awesome idea. Right now he's doing a series on his version of a "perfect MMO". MMO is short for MMORPG, which is short for Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplayin game, for those who don't know. Anyway, after Star Wars Galaxies failed to come though for me, I began to think of what a good Star Wars or Star Wars-like MMO would look like. So.... here it goes!


Setting:

Science Fiction, totally. There's too many Fantasy MMOs out there anyway. I might do a good Fantasy MMO later, but for now, lets stick with Sci-Fi.

Now, why I chose Sci-Fi. I chose Sci-Fi because, a big part is if you make your own universe, it's your'se, and nobody will complain that you've made the elves look like wusses and the Dwarves too big. What I'm trying to say is there's no expectation to meet. This is purely from your head, and sci-fi allows you to do whatever you want, and for the most part it's not criticized too much.

Another reason is, like I said, a lack of good sci-fi out there. I know EVE Online is out, but that was waaaay too complicated for me, and don't know what the story for EVE Online is anyway. But the story would go something like this. "2 (or 3) factions who originated from Earth have now spread out and settled in most of the Galaxy. Besides the 2 or 3 factions, there are others that you can join, but those three are the ones you have to start with.


Gameplay:

You can do pretty much whatever you want in the game. You can join the military in the fight against the other two factions, you can get into politics and eventually have some say in what goes on in that faction. If you want, you can even form your own rogue faction and do whatever you want. Build a space station, become pirates, bandits, vigilanties, a crafting faction, whatever.

Then there would always be something happening to continue the story. One of the perks of being a polotician is to have some say in what goes on in the universe. Say, the dev wants two factions to go to war, they talk to the council/pres/whatever they call themselves and say, "hey, this is what's gunna happen" then the leader(s) make the announcement and for what reasons.

Another big thing that I would like to see is the conquering of planets and cities. One thing that annoyed me in SWG, is I would get with a group of people to go attack an Empire-controlled city, and it didn't do a whole lot. It was more just to be a pain in the butt more then anything. I think it should be a little reminiscent to PvP in Dark Ages of Camelot. in DAoC, you had 6 Keeps, each keep held a bonus that gave you something, extra health bonus, attack bonus, armor bonus, ect ect ect. Anyway, Basically what happens is once your side takes control of the keep, the other people have to try to take it away from you. So it's a lot king of the hill in that sense. But what happens is, you can build siege equipment, if you chose the assassin class you can climb the wall, go into stealth-mode, and try to take out the healers. You could go on the wall and shoot the people trying to take your keep. You can ram the door, you can repair the door. It's just crazy.

anyway I think that's good'nuff for now, check back in a couple of days (or weeks, whatever comes first) for Part 2!