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Horza
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Hi, thanks for taking the time to read this. Basically I would like your opinion about an MMORPG game idea I had. I came accross the game Pirates! by Sid Meier and I'm totaly in love with the game. Basically it's set in the 1600's and you go about on an *old school* ship blowing up other ships with your cannons and stealing their cargo or even hi-jacking them and making them part of your fleet or your flag-ship.
There are many other things to do in the game, but basically the short coming in the game is that there is no multiplayer at all. So what I was wondering is would you ever play an MMO set in this environment? Basically, and this is only what I have so far, you would own your own ship and buy upgrades for it. You'd start off with like a noob ship and move up to better ships either by stealing them or moving up the ranks of a countries navy. At the start you could chose your country i.e Britan, France, Spain, Pirates etc.
Then you could do quests like: guard the coast from the invaders, transport this Lord to here, kill this, map this area. A guild could be like a fleet of ships or if the ship is big enough 2 or more people could be on the same ship and do different tasks i.e one is the captain, one is the gunnery officer, one is steering the ship. If your going solo, then part of the upgrades you could buy would be better NPC officers to do these tasks.
There could also be an option to go ashore and into the pubs/officers clubs/palaces kind of like Earth and Beyond. But not sure if this is a good idea or not?
If you think this is a good game idea or indeed would like to add anything you think would be cool please do. Once again thanks for your time and vote!!
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That would a really cool...would there be land to go on? to buy stuff or would it only be on the water like in water world?
Also, could i get the Titanic and rent out space for money?
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erm..... "pirates of the Burning sea" tells you nothing?
No?? tought so. Well basically is a Mmorpg on pirates in that period of time. Still in development but you can find more info going to its own section right here and visiting their main site of course.
"If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, if you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime"
Ya i was going to say, Pirates of the burning sea is pretty much already doing this...
Your idea sounds like an advanced version of Puzzle Pirates ..even the quests mentioned above are similar. Several people to a crew, you do little puzzles to opperate the cannons or use the bilge pumps etc. But its crappy graphics :P But an honest-to-God MMO set in this time period with a Pirate theme? Yeah it could be a lot of fun if it was done right. But as Volkmar has already said, there is something kind of like this in the works already.
Nahallac Silverwinds
Alter Destiny
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Nahallac Silverwinds
Alter Destiny
Tunare - EQ
Yeah after I posted the topic I was chatting to my flatmate about it and he said he was sure there was already an mmo being made around the same idea. So I looked and found Pirates of the Burning Sea in the game list. Oh well you win some you lose some, guess I need to do my research next time!
Hopefully PotBS will turn out to be a good game. I mean it all looks amazing to me, but it would seem they still have a way to go in terms of development. I would hate for them to release it before it's really playable and lose any subscriber base they could potentially have.
Well anybody who was interested in my idea, I point you in the direction of PotBS if you don't know about it already. Thanks
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