G'day all,
nun of u wuld have seen me b4, thats because i play ares. A couple of years back i decided to go out and buy escape velocity, after playing the demo. "GREAT!" i thought, "This game, rulz!", or so i thought. After downloading scenario after scenario, and extension after extension, and using them to there full extent i thought "man, they should make a multi-player ev'. Then they released Ares, and it was sed to be a game alot like ev and evo but multiplayer! so i went out and bought ares, and now a couple of months after i find it only has the tiniest bit to do with ev and evo, that it is set in space. Apart from that it was pretty boring. So ive come here to give some solutions to the problems set by ambrosia to why they wont release an EVMP.
i read earlier ambrosia is worried about the problems with plugins colliding, HEY! dont enable plugins!. Another thing mentioned was, 'people who have bought ev and evo will have to go out and buy evmp, but isnt it worth it? People went out and bought ev then went out and bought evo because it was a new revelation in the ev games. And a multi-player version will be the same.
Also, if any of you have played muds or games like it, you wuld know that you create a character and then you can log on to a server and use your character any time you like. Why doesnt Ambrosia create a server for people to log onto with a maximum of only the one character, (controlled through ip numbers) and log on!
there culd be things like:
*when you begin you can choose, your name (obviously), race, sex, upload a portrait of yourself for peple who wanted info on you ect.
*Lowbies culdnt be attacked until they reach a certain level of power
*Planets and starports were owned by respectful people, (like moderaters) and could deny access to people landing ect.
*Bars on planets or starport could be chat rooms, where people can talk just like on IRC.
*Lowbies could take out loans from certain people to buy ships, and then pay them back as they earnt money.
*Computer missions would be disabled, and missions controlled by certain trades people, where you transported good (such as weapons) between . Or do missions for people in the space port bars, and destroy a certain person who owned a suped up kestral and was destroying all couriers (people who were transporting goods).
*you could order weapons in from other planets.
*when you died you are resurrected at your home planet
*Immortals take care of troublemakers....
*there are special communtications channels on your ship such as normal chat, distress, missions, ect.
These are just some wild ideas, but if we can get a group of people together and design just the basis of it, and ambrosia tells us what they need, maybe there is a chance!!!
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'No matter how safe you are hidden from the deadliest of enemies, you can never escape yourself ' --Cormach Hafgan
