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Heres just an Idea but here goes :

in the 70's there was a sci-fi movie called  WestWorld, it was based on a future society that when people went on vacation they would pick a certain theme for a playground to go to as in like a theme park

1.)  there was a Westworld-- where you could be a gunfighter, or a saloon hound, or anything in that western era

2.) there was a RomanWorld-- where you could be a centurion, or part of the roman senate or anything in that  era

3.) there was FutureWorld-- All space themed and  sci-fi

4.) there could be a FantasyWorld, dragons and what not based area....

get my drift??   someone i wish would go with this idea and RUN with it!!!!

then we as gamers could go to any of these places... if we got tired of our sci-fi we could go be a gunfighter or a river boat capt etc... if we  got tired of the knights and shining armor stuff we could relax in roman world and have maidens galore!!!!   anyway  this is my ultimate MMO      whats your  opinion on this?????

Kinda cool.

But could you interract with the other world, or trade? Like Romans who trade with gunfighters or....?

Otherwise it would be like just 4 different MMO no?

or we could make a semi-realistic mmo that semulates the WHOLE world in one time period and you can play in certain places of the world......but as we know developers are not that creative and will probably make a lego mmo before they make that type.

I love that movie. I am not sure it will make a good MMO though.

Either the players are playing tourists going into these 3 theme parks, which seems to be quite silly. Or then you will different theme (cowboy, roman, ...) MMOs.

Originally posted by 123123456202

or we could make a semi-realistic mmo that semulates the WHOLE world in one time period and you can play in certain places of the world......but as we know developers are not that creative and will probably make a lego mmo before they make that type.

Oh oh, *raises finger*..

-yes?

What's the point of recreating RL when we already have it?

-Sit back down miss.

But..

-/eye

Fine!

I've thought about this before, something where you basically have several MMO's in one, where you can switch between settings but still keep your character...somewhat like a time-machine MMO...I don't know that current hardware capabilities could handle something that ambitious

It sounds to me like this would work good with the traveling system like Stargate Worlds, but you more have to blend in with that era of people and time like they did sometimes in Star Trek.

Originally posted by vanster

It sounds to me like this would work good with the traveling system like Stargate Worlds, but you more have to blend in with that era of people and time like they did sometimes in Star Trek.

Unfortunately, every video that I have seen of Stargate Worlds has made me cringe.

It could be done with a lot of money, creativity, years, and ambition.

First is the games "Lobby" this is like a huge place where players not currently in "Theme Worlds" are chatting and making friends, buying objects for used in the three ThemeWorlds: RomanWorld, WestWorld, and SpaceWorld.

Now, when the game starts your character is given some Lobby "money". This money can only be used in the Lobby world and not anywhere else(you can't even access it when not in the Lobby). With this you can either convert it to one of the other 3 themes currency(with ever changing real time currency values), buy items and cloths to change your Lobby characters appareance or buy items to do the same but for the ThemeWorlds.

In the Lobby there would be no quests because it would make no sense and be ridiculous, but there would be quest in the other Themes and perhaps stories or Sagas to make it interesting. Every World would be huge so in a way you would think this really is a 3 in 1 MMORPG game. Each world would be different. Each with different stats, classes, items, rules, eviroment, etc.

If in the RomanWorld you are lvl 20, in the other worlds, with the exception of Lobby you would be lvl 1 or whatever lvl you achived last time you played. Each World is independent of the others. Players could change money from the ThemeWorlds into Lobby money and vice versa. But if you dont then the money that you have in the other world and all the items of that World stay with your avatar of that world.

It could be fun if done really well. Lobby is sort of like the city that connects each other World together. I would do the city in the style of Guild Wars cities. Have many mini servers each holding around 300 people or a little more, and instanced area. But each ThemeWorld is a normal server or world like EQ. Instances would be used for dungeons or story driven areas ala LotR Online and GW but everything else would be open world.

I wonder how the worlds will be balanced, and how characters will be balanced.