I posted this concept yesterday - but 1 reply in 24 hours? Obviously you're not getting my message. . .

I had a very interesting idea for an email/web based strategy game vaguely based on EV. This would be a completely different approach than EV or the online RPG's. Rather than being a mere mercenary working for a government, you would command your own little empire and fight for dominance against other little empires in a shattered post-Confederation galaxy. It would be infinitely expandable, with hundreds of approaches and no "goal" per se. Imagine commanding your fleets to crush rival planets, researching new technologies to get the upper hand, holding your breath and hoping your spy didn't get caught, colonizing virgin worlds, or exploring the unknown reaches beyond the Serpens Nebula. And since it would be a web based game, like the uEV-RPG (for example) hundreds could play, instead of only 4 or 8 like most strategy games. Naturally, it would also be turn based, allowing long campaigns and diplomacy, unlike Ares.

Now to find someone to help me with this grandiose concept. . .

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ColdFusion

"The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."

Well, the reason I didn't say anything is because I don't like e-mail and webboard oriented games. I prefer games where the creators actually make something, not just set up these means of communications and write a rule book.

Mike Lee (Firebird)

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well, that javascript based RPG i was working on kinda sounds like that. but, i dropped that idea since it was a hell of a lot of work & time i could have been spending on ti-ev, and no one seemed interested in another RPG.

Rather than being a mere mercenary working for a government, you would command your own little empire and fight for dominance against other little empires in a shattered post-Confederation galaxy. It would be infinitely expandable, with hundreds of approaches and no "goal" per se.

well, that's quite possible with javascript &/or cgi scripting. if you'd like, i can send you what i have, which's basically a login/store "saved game" to cookies type deal. and i have planet & object arrays kinda done. if you're interested, e-mail me: (url="http://"mailto:funky_cheeze@usa.net")mailto:funky_cheeze@usa.net(/url)funky_cheeze@usa.net

A game like that would be cool but if you made an option so you can play offline or online that would be even better. I own literally thousands of games so my I have an idea as to good game qualities.

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Computer Game Addict

(This message has been edited by g-man (edited 01-28-2000).)

This sounds rather interesting.

Can't wait to find out how it would work though.

(This message has been edited by Phillip (edited 01-28-2000).)