LeperColony
Traveller Card Game Dev Team
Modeling the 3rd Imperium will take some time.
Even Star Citizen had to drastically reduce the number of planets it (plans) to have.
Modeling the 3rd Imperium will take some time.
Modeling the 3rd Imperium will take some time.
Jim, I'll take your word for it, but I've all but given up online gaming because of all the trolling and lack of moderation.
Meh...the whole project just seems ill-conceived. And MMO and Traveller sound like chalk and cheese to me, but to each their own.
Jim, I'll take your word for it, but I've all but given up online gaming because of all the trolling and lack of moderation. Not a day goes by when I don't get team killed with some shooter, or an ally intentionally drops with an RTS, or some player spouts off a diatribe of racist venom. And I figured whoever's running EQ and whatever sequels or addons has probably fixed a lot of issues, but to me the barbarians have stormed the gates, and the occasional troll or punk ruining a game is now mainstream.
Just me ranting. Me ---> :rant:
Meh...the whole project just seems ill-conceived. And MMO and Traveller sound like chalk and cheese to me, but to each their own.
I think this plus small scale multiplayer (2 to 8 players) would have the best chance of success.That could be compelling. No Mans Sky meet Skyrim in the Regina subsector either just before or just after the FFW.
I used to do NOVALOGIC's Joint Operations a lot, but one player, a female (for whatever that's worth), is such a blatant hacker that it's just ridiculous. Everyone else who hacks has gotten a ban or account suspension. And now that the company's been bought out by some European firm and the servers are located in France or Belgium, it's just pretty suspicious as to how she's able to keep her account open.I have been at WWIIOL for nearly two decades now, its a relic in some ways, not least of which it is GM'd and an older crowd and the nuts get booted, eventually.
There are hacks and cheats but everyone complains fast and loud and they do eventually get hunted down and banned, and there are only the company servers so no homegrown horrors.
I understand that company held the Traveller license for a time, and it does have a technology for handling large planetary distances and mixed mover/shooters, but I don't think it would scale well to modern graphics sensibilities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_Online
I'm really concerned that it could end up being like the Spinward show.
You may be right: having never played a MMO I'll take your word for it.A Traveller MMORPG could work. Imagine Eve Online set during the Long Night period, Rebellion period, New Era, or during the rise of the 3rd Imperium. Their system of system control, resource extraction, and ship building could easily translate into some type of Pocket Empire scenario.
The emergent gameplay of Eve's mechanics is amazing enough that there are academics writing sociological histories of what happened with the game. And it is still ongoing.
And just a way of slicing the MMORPG bread. It can be done and be fun but one needs a plan other than acquire and learn the tech.
A Single Player RPG, ala Skyrim, set in a subsector, that has a subsector wide story arc (no doubt dealing with the nobility and the Imperium), along with 10-15 "worlds" with their own sub plots (that are or, are not, tied to the larger story line) and then some "empty" sand box worlds to just poke around on.
That could be compelling. No Mans Sky meet Skyrim in the Regina subsector either just before or just after the FFW.
Jim, I'll take your word for it, but I've all but given up online gaming because of all the trolling and lack of moderation. Not a day goes by when I don't get team killed with some shooter, or an ally intentionally drops with an RTS, or some player spouts off a diatribe of racist venom. And I figured whoever's running EQ and whatever sequels or addons has probably fixed a lot of issues, but to me the barbarians have stormed the gates, and the occasional troll or punk ruining a game is now mainstream.
Just me ranting. Me ---> :rant: