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by: DarthBroccoli
date posted: Jul 19, 2007 2:15 PM  | 
updated: Aug 30, 2007 5:09 PM
An Idea for a video game
Welcome to my idea blog. I'll probably do a lot of these, because I have a lot of ideas.

Basically, my idea is to make a game where players control capital ships and starfighters in a space battle. But that's not all.

The game would be mostly, if not totally, multiplayer, so there is no AI to deal with. So maybe each player controls one ship, or one squadron of starfighters. The guy who controls the ship has direct control over the movement, and can indirectly control the gun batteries by selecting a target or targets to fire at, or just let the computer control the guns for defense against starfighters. (I did say mostly multiplayer, so there would be some AI) If you haven't figured it out, I'm saying you play online against other people.

Then maybe you have one person who would oversee the whole battle and give orders to invdividual ships, which would then be carried out by the people directly commanding those ships. It would be kind of an RTS game, except with all the focus on tactics and ship-to-ship combat. An RTT game, if you will.

Then, you would have to have multiple types of ships to use. There would be the obvious ones like Star Destroyers, Mon Cal Cruisers, and X-Wings, but others too, like Lancer-class frigates and Quasar Fire-class frigates. I thought this up while reading Solo Command, in case your wondering.

That's pretty much it. So tell me what you think, make suggestions, and ask questions about different features, because I probably forgot to put some stuff here, but if you ask me, I"ll remember.