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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.

  bobthebeatle66
date Posted: Jul 19, 2007 5:37 PM
Impressive, most Impressive.B-)
Lord Harald
The Council of Evil
date Posted: Jul 25, 2007 7:50 AM
Would a person who controls a capital ship see from the bridge, as a captain usually does, or from an angle outside the ship?
An idea for improvement: You should have a limited amount of SDs and Mon Cals, and a ranking system, so the highest ranking players got first choice in ships. So not everyone would be the biggest ships. A low ranking player would be a squadron of fighters, and a mid ranking player would be a Blocaderunner (rebel) or some smaller version of a SD (empire).
  DarthBroccoli
Search your feelings, you know it to be true.
date Posted: Jul 25, 2007 9:54 AM
I think you would probably be able to switch between different camera views, one from the bridge and one that provides an overall look at the battle.

That's a pretty good idea. I had thought about a ranking system, but wasn't really sure what it would do. So thank you.

OTHER PEOPLE, PLEASE COMMENT.
  jediharry233
date Posted: Sep 01, 2007 3:30 AM
i think they should make a lightsaber fighting game where you can be all the legends in the saga for examplae anakin in epiode 3 and luck in return of the jedi that would be cool there you should still have sith and jedi enemies and i for the space battle you can use all the legendery ships everything :p ]:) it should be called starwars war of the galaxy nad the more skilled you get at it your jedi can chose to be evil or good but the sith are always evil and you go thorugh the game fighting them and you must choose if you want more power or be steady that would be cool dude
  sithlordawg
date Posted: Sep 10, 2007 3:07 PM
That sounds awesome.B-)
  sithlordawg
date Posted: Sep 10, 2007 3:09 PM
You should make it so you could control the dath star.:O
  sithlordawg
date Posted: Sep 10, 2007 3:11 PM
And maybe you could fight inbetween episodes 3and 4.:)
  sithman472
date Posted: Sep 25, 2007 4:55 PM
In my opinion it doesn't sound that fun, but there are like a million people on the planet and I sould be the only that has this opinion.
  sithlordawg
date Posted: Oct 01, 2007 3:07 PM
I still think it sounds awesome.
  DarthBroccoli
Search your feelings, you know it to be true.
date Posted: Oct 01, 2007 3:44 PM
Thanks for all your comments and ideas, guys. They are awesome.

And if, like sithman472, you don't like it, perhaps you could elaborate. Do you just not like the genre? Or this specific idea?
  JediDestroyer01
date Posted: Oct 22, 2007 3:40 PM
It's a great idea. Wish it was reality.
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