Mercurial Posted December 17, 2012 Report Share Posted December 17, 2012 referral link: http://lnc.hr/fNWK Looks ambitious as hell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VicariousShaner Posted December 17, 2012 Report Share Posted December 17, 2012 If someone as talented as Peter Molyneux failed to meet claims a quarter as huge as what these previously unheard of guys are doing, I find it incredibly hard find faith that this will come to fruition. At least, in any form not absolute garbage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercurial Posted December 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2012 Peter Molyneux is just crazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted December 17, 2012 Report Share Posted December 17, 2012 This sounds too ambitious. WAY too ambitious. I need to know the talent behind it, just so I know who to blame when it inevitably fails Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baconrath Posted December 17, 2012 Report Share Posted December 17, 2012 I wonder how many Bethesda-scale bugs this will have if it ever gets to that stage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madbassman39 Posted December 17, 2012 Report Share Posted December 17, 2012 I really like the concept of this. The idea that I could rule my own kingdom, wage war, trade and tax all with the use of other players. The problem is, people will all want to be king, they will all want to be the top and because there is no such thing as mortality in a video game, it will never live up to its potential even if done right. Why should I pay taxes to this one player, I'll try to kill him and his army by raising my own army. If I lose, either my character dies and I start over or I re-spawn and try again. Perma-death is the best way to deal with everybody fighting for top dog, but really you only can be top dog if other people allow it, nobody will allow it just because you are stronger. Really neat concept though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 17, 2012 Report Share Posted December 17, 2012 You pay your taxes because otherwise the king's dudes will come fuck your shit up, just like real life. Though I'm sure you're right that the kinds of long-term stable societies that we see IRL won't happen in the game, it will probably be more like small, constantly warring factions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saturnine Tenshi Posted December 17, 2012 Report Share Posted December 17, 2012 Assuming this is somehow executed properly, I don't think it'd be too far-fetched for a group of people to pull together to start fending off others sort of like a coalition of city-states. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 17, 2012 Report Share Posted December 17, 2012 It would certainly be interesting for researchers to follow, you'd get to see the social contact in action. See what elements it is that makes us not just go and kill someone better off than us and take their belongings or descend into anarchy on a daily basis. As for the game itself, yeah I'm gonna guess somewhat infeasible. Especially as at the moment it's pretty much just an idea and a video. If it was somewhat feasible they'd have something to show off. It's probably worth mentioning that at the moment there's no singleplayer game that matches what they're aiming to do, let along doing it in an MMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 The closest we have to compare it to is a Minecraft server or second life if I had to compare it to something Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 I thought of such a game before and it does sound really awesome on paper. Its just really hard to pull off at our current time. This game is way ahead of our time to say the least. This is a game our children or our children's children will play. To say more... You would need some sort of army of devs to keep it going. Most practical way for this to work is to have a really flexible engine and a damn good AI overlord (with human handlers of course...). I'm serious with the AI. Somehow this game universe got to be kept in check somehow so it won't get too loony and that reasonable random events can happen. I don't think the devs can keep up. Regarding their current plans... I would say having multiple planets being inhabited at once would be a good move so when people go into space, they'll have peers equal/lesser/stronger to/than themselves. It would make for some neat round X of first contact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 Regarding their current plans... I would say having multiple planets being inhabited at once would be a good move so when people go into space, they'll have peers equal/lesser/stronger to/than themselves. It would make for some neat round X of first contact. That is such an awesome idea I can't even express how awesome that idea is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 Then intergalactic wars. Problem is first contact can work but it won't be a big surprise as unlike with aliens we can communicate with others via the interwebs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 It obviously wouldn't be as earth-shattering as it would in real life, but it would still be cool. I was just thinking along the dynamics of what happens when one planet develops space travel first and finds another planet that's at say modern levels of technology. Obviously the idea of what would happen in that kind of situation has been explored in fiction, but it's never been "tested" in such an organic situation. The best we can do is try to draw conclusions from looking at our own past, which is useful but can only go so far, especially when taking into account the social changes that have happened in the last couple hundred years since the last time a truly "first contact" scenario happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 I feel like some of you here are getting excited about the idea and possibilities and will ultimately be disappointed by the lackluster showing [if it ever comes]. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saturnine Tenshi Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 (edited) I don't waste my time (or money) on Kickstarter anyway. I just think it's a neat idea to toss around. If they did include multiple populated planets, it'd be a good idea to also do something with different in-game languages. Cultural things, even. People will obviously find their way around it, but I think it'd be a entertaining to watch. If my experience in similar environments is any indication, those who resort to out-of-game solutions are few and far between. Edited December 18, 2012 by Saturnine Tenshi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 The interwebs would be a problem. The first few hours or first day would be still interesting unless the two that make contact planned on it somehow. Doubt it though since how many people even know how to orientate themselves in space? Your north can be their east and for all you know they don't even realize they see totally different color scheme than you do. Again, game of the future. Fucking future... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 19, 2012 Report Share Posted December 19, 2012 I feel like some of you here are getting excited about the idea and possibilities and will ultimately be disappointed by the lackluster showing [if it ever comes]. Obviously this almost certainly will not pan out as they predict, but it's still fun to talk about in a hypothetical kind of way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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