[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Game Design: put up or shut up

[Mark Metson <markm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:

> I am, however, disappointed that you are squandering your talents IMO.
> I do think it's time to put up or shut up about major game design
> changes.  What's gonna change?

I think that maybe my ideas might also be heading toward massively 
multiplayer types of games. Because trying to incorporate all games inside 
all other games in some vast conglomeration of games will doubtless end up 
needing vast numbers of players.

Here is another example I have in mind. There are some nice little 
battle-mech games out there where you play a mercanary controlling a 
handful of battle-mechs and pilots of battle-mechs. In the ones I have 
played the game pretends there are empires of some sort that are hiring 
you for missions. But those empires are not real, in the sense that there 
is no game in which players are playing those empires.

Even while FreeCiv remains a single-planet game it might hypothetically be 
possible that, for example, when you reach Alpha Centuri you might find it 
occupied by the battle-mech mercenaries civilisation, and they migh offer 
to hire out to you some units of battle-mechs... Then you as a FreeCiv 
player could get some interventions by the extraterrestrials and the 
extraterrestrials could fight nice little battlemech scenarios that 
actually have an effect in an existing game instead of being a standalone 
game...

-MarkM-

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