I don't think many would like to play the game as INSECTS. Not a great idea. Therefore why necroposting? 

You want something like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6XrKN16cuc

And this is the proof of existence of God:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQERRbU23bU

Insects Online:

* No need to buy Rights

* No need for customization

* Meaningfull Horizontal and Vertical character progression (EVOLUTION at its best!)

* Free to play: worker/soldier class with lots of grind

* Premium membership for unique races (want to play a camel spider or a centipede, huh? 10 bucks)

Micro transactions for "enhanced genes and higher class"

* In game advertisement of real life products scathered around domestic environments (see raids)

* Collective thinking is an excelent excuse for stupid boring repetitive Quests.

* Colony (equivalent of guilds) like you never seen before, and working towards its own goal justifies collective behaviour

* No need to worry about ratings while keeping lots of insect death dismemberment stuff

* Special animations, skill and abilities based on REAL INSECTS ABILITIES

* it could mix many genres, from third person action, to real time strategy

* Completelly different setting,  giving a new breath for the genre

* It could be a huge success across all nations, cultures, genders, ages, due to obvious reasons

* Nature events playing a huge factor on each day's life and game mechanics: Wind, Rain, Storm, Temperature, Day/Night cycles  playing huge factors

* Hybrid PVP system, free across different races and territorial against other colonies, consensual inter-individual

* Epic and I mean EPIC END GAME against huge bosses in cool places.

* Endless ammount of source material, inspiration, creativity.

* As soon as you die, you get reborn as a new larva fresh from the Colony.

* Food is the currency.

I could get on and on with my ideas about its design. I have been thinking about it for many years.

Yea that sounds great in a way ^^

but i still think that only workers and soldiers as classes could get a little boring to those who might wanner play as a queen (like me) or King

but i still think its a great idea i always used to play sim ant or warcraft sim ant and i wanted to play a online version so i hope some might can make it xD (but it got to be free ):P)

But im thinking it could be a idea but i youst come whit it xD

Maby this could get you some ideas don't know but i try xP

You start at choosen a race (ants/termits/wasp/bees) and then you choos class (Queen/if you termits you can choos King/worker/Soldier)

thats the 3 classes xD

if you are a playing as a queen you start whit giving the colony a name and then finding your place to make a hive (i don't know how termits are doing) but you are flying at the start when you find a good place (not near any other colonys) you start degging and then laying eggs.(if it could be possible then it could be great if more players could work thogether in 1 colony like 1 queen (player) workers (players) Soldiers (Players)) the queen are laying eggs and helping whit other things in the colony

If you are playing as a worker you can choose what colony you like to start in(if its some friends who wanner make a colony thogether or youst some who wanner play whit other players) by tasting the name of the queen that like mine would be Liva98989 and then you would be the first egg the queen would lay if you don't know any you can youst say random or npc (thats mean that a npc is the queen) then you are going to work theres a lot of jobs to be done so you might choos if you were going out for food or building more on the hive or helping nursing the eggs.

If you are a Soldier you would do the same. When you are coming out its your duty to defend the colony you can get food for yourself and what a soldier can do you can olso searhing for other colonys as a scout and more....

I think That could be great i mean a online game mean that we are not playing alone but whit other persons and i got a friend i would love building a colony whit

abilliys could be normal abilitys i mean as queen you can choos what eggs to lay and maby are giving a specil aura.

as worker the would it be building more at the hive and finding food but also (all should be able to carry the eggs) nursing the eggs whit the queen.

if it were ants they all should be able to spit posin in a way and bees and waspes should be able to stik and termits should be able to bite and more...

it would be a big pvp map and still its the most fun i think is to evolution and no its not that much like spore you can's build tunnels in spore and in this game you are not a pearson who don't mean anything to the serunderings like other games here can you chance the game!

But youst as long as i can be a ant queen im happy (and its free) xD

But youst as long as i can be But im thinking it could be a idea but i youst come whit it xD

Maby this could get you some ideas don't know but i try xP

You start at choosen a race (ants/termits/wasp/bees) and then you choos class (Queen/if you termits you can choos King/worker/Soldier)

thats the 3 classes xD

if you are a playing as a queen you start whit giving the colony a name and then finding your place to make a hive (i don't know how termits are doing) but you are flying at the start when you find a good place (not near any other colonys) you start degging and then laying eggs.(if it could be possible then it could be great if more players could work thogether in 1 colony like 1 queen (player) workers (players) Soldiers (Players)) the queen are laying eggs and helping whit other things in the colony

If you are playing as a worker you can choose what colony you like to start in(if its some friends who wanner make a colony thogether or youst some who wanner play whit other players) by tasting the name of the queen that like mine would be Liva98989 and then you would be the first egg the queen would lay if you don't know any you can youst say random or npc (thats mean that a npc is the queen) then you are going to work theres a lot of jobs to be done so you might choos if you were going out for food or building more on the hive or helping nursing the eggs.

If you are a Soldier you would do the same. When you are coming out its your duty to defend the colony you can get food for yourself and what a soldier can do you can olso searhing for other colonys as a scout and more....

I think That could be great i mean a online game mean that we are not playing alone but whit other persons and i got a friend i would love building a colony whit

abilliys could be normal abilitys i mean as queen you can choos what eggs to lay and maby are giving a specil aura.

as worker the would it be building more at the hive and finding food but also (all should be able to carry the eggs) nursing the eggs whit the queen.

if it were ants they all should be able to spit posin in a way and bees and waspes should be able to stik and termits should be able to bite and more...

it would be a big pvp map and still its the most fun i think is to evolution and no its not that much like spore you can's build tunnels in spore and in this game you are not a pearson who don't mean anything to the serunderings like other games here can you chance the game!
but yous as long i can be a ant queen im happy (and if its free) xD

PTRs are already up in Japan

http://www.japanesebugfights.com/

...make it so =D

Thats not that much evolution in it xP but its ok at pvp maby :)

I think playing as a queen might be a bit of a grind.

I DO think an RTS like this might be pretty fun. I seem to remember playing an RTS called Cave Wars(?) which was something like that.

The number of playable races and npcs could be based on the most common/popular known insect types.

roaches are OP, they have like 90% resists to everything! i demand a nerf on behalf of the fly community!

Originally posted by Greslore
I would dig playing a praying mantis.  Wonder if it would be a healer?  Monk?  Kung fu bug? 

http://www.usiakart.com/art/phraint.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Phvt.jpg

I still think that it could be fun to play as a queen i would do anything to play as a queen becous i like to start the hole thing and like to take care and make the hive bigger i always wanted to play as a queen and i hope if some one are making the game then i get a chance to play as a queen i mean peaple also like playing workers
and i hope it could be possible queens could nurse eggs and laying them and like people like playing roleplay other like pvp i mean playing as a queen is like roleplaying and playing as a soldier is pvp xD so i can't see the problem and i really wanner play as a queen ant T-T

How come Blizzard won't include Termites?

I blame Bill Roper!!!! 

Haha <(-^.^-)> But i think it could be a great game

It would require too much developer thinking.

Im sure they would prefer to remain with the fantasy orcs/elves usual stuff.

No need to think or be creative, just vomit another generic wannabe game and cash in!

But if they want to make it more fantasy then they could make Ants like nerubians (its a race in wow) and Waspes are also maked to a fantasy in wow (sorry i only played wow so thats the only thing i can say) then they would always be able to put some armor on them And! it would be a fantasy based game at the same time!

I think this would be cool.

Always thought this would be a great idea. Instead of one insect, you could control either a group or a bloodline. Character advancement for each would be like so:

Group - Character advancement would be implemented through group bonuses. You can add specialties to each insect in your group. If you play as an ant, perhaps you have one ant in your group who is a great digger, one who is very strong, and two who are very fast. You could mix and match abilities to find the perfect team for your playstyle. To prevent switching to suit whatever the situation is at hand, you must be in your hive/colony to change group specializations.

Bloodline - Character advancement is implemented through "evolving". Each character has a certain amount of DNA space they can fill up. All players would start with the most basic DNA strands. +Speed, +Digging, +Strength, +Attack Power, etc. If someone lifted objects a lot, they might unlock a gene that gave them more strength but took up more room in their DNA space or gene pool.

I'm not honestly sure which of these two I'd prefer. They both seem like they would work fine.

For "races", I'm thinking of the two ground-based "hive mind" insects: Termites and ants. I'm reluctant to include bees because flight would bee too much of an advantage. Perhaps the bonus of termites would be their acid spitting and overall strength (due to being larger), while ants have the advantage of numbers (perhaps each player is assigned three or so ants?).

Players would be given a choice of area to start in, if they wanted to start in an arboreal (tree-based) or terran (ground-based) colony or joining a specific colony if they want to join a friend.

Population would very well balance itself. Ants could split off and establish new colonies and different hills/nests could be assimilated into a different colony.

I could post a lot more, but I'm going to stop there. Sorry for the text wall.

The idea is to offer a big variety of insects for players to choose.

Obviously the most common would be the collective minded types, but then would slowly add uniqueness to other type of insects through ingame achievements or micro-payments.

Something as complex as the Jedi system for the Star Wars Galaxies, but for different types of insects (those that are more powerfull than average), along side the micro-payments for variety. (instead of being better, being just a different gameplay).

We could have ants, termites, bees, and withing each of those, we could have different races. Make those types the most popular ones, or... the starting insects...

Then we could mix with the Lord of the Rings Online system of controlling a "monster". So after a certain point the player would be able to play as a spider, for example. Being able to pray on others, while still being able to be hunt down in numbers.

People who dont know a lot about insects wouldnt be able to foresee the possibilities. I know alot about bees (a friend is a professional honey producer and he knows everything about bees) and Ive searched a lot about ants. The thing is...

Ants have so many "special abilities" its mind blowing if you could "port" them into a game. Like, able to jump high ranges, able to piss far away (long range attack = numbing, stunning, debuffing effects), being able to pierce any armor (there are ants called cutters in Rain Forest here in Brazil that can cut through heavy army clothes), and many other unimaginable deeds.

They can build and construct stuff for different purposes, stuff akin to the great wall of china. They can control the temperature of certain rooms to the point where other species would just die. From poison to immunity system. There are many cool characteristics of ants alone. Ive seen ants with the ability to float through water where other insects would just submerge. Some ants can even fly. Think of the possibilities...

Insects Online would be the most realistic MMO, complex and misterious nature is much better than fantasy stuff. We have all the creativity we need in the nature. It cant go wrong.

I think so to it can't go wrong xD i mean we have so many ideas like.
If only there were 3 main races like bees termits and ants then there still would be a lot of others i read alot about bees in the school and i read about ants to.
so that some races i can come op whit i don't know what kind of termits there are but i know ants wery well:
if you picket the main race ants then you should be able to choose:
-Black ants(my favorit)black ants are almost the smallest kind of ants there are but they are great in numbers and are more peacefully.

-Yellow ants are most like black ants other then they are a little smaller and live in other places but are also wery peacefully

-Amazon Ants are bigger then black ants but not as big as (red forest ants i don't know what they are called in english xP) but they are stronger and they are more evil instead of being peacefully, they are not that great in number like the small ants but they raid black or yellow collonys and take the eggs or use the workers as slaves in there own nest (evil!) queens are some times flying into a black ants nest and are taking over one of the chambers and when the ants come out they think that its their queen and begins to attack the other ants in the colony (it happen sometimes if the queen is to strong)

-(red forest ants)they are not as evil like the amazon ants but they are small numbert and are bigger then the others but they are also smart their nest can have op to 2 queens in it and they can have allis (of their own cind) in other colonys not far from theirs and bla bla bla

there are also more ants like havester ants and much much more..

then there is bees there are many cind if bees but i youst say them i can remember there are wasps and bumble bees and then there is hony bees i don't know but i youst sat waspes on i know that there is one more bee but i youst can't remember the name xD

-waspes they are fast but don't live on the ground so i don't say that much becous it may can be to hard to take and blablabla

-and the 2 other bees also live in the air but! the last bee i couldent remember live on the ground or not that high op
they are orange on the exit and are slow they are not that great numberet eaither (i don't say that much about bees becous i know some maby can say other things so what i told was fake and so on xD

but i think it also could be great whit the one group you could control and could give them skills but i still think that it would not be that fun if you couldent lay more eggs then only that i mean if we could say that i could choose the race ants (that what i want to be) and i could choos black ants and IF i could choose to have my main a queen (sorry but i youst love queens (behind every man stands a woman you know xP)) and then i could begin (it could be fun if you choosed a queen you could start flying off from a colony and start building your own or if you started as a worker you could choos what colony you liked to start in a npc or player colony and so on whit commander and other classes i would love if you could choos your main class or youst what they should start looking as i mean if you started as a worker your head wouldent be that great or maby as a builder to carry stones but that should be like workers should be able to go difren ways like to havest or build like giving them skills or something like trengs and queens starts whit a little bigger brood and are a little bigger not as big as a soldier maby but bigger as a worker but as i was about to say if you started as a queen you could breed and nurse and that could be one you controled (i hope not like atlantica in a way that you only see the group you got when in combat but you could command the group members to difrend postes then if you were queen you ould choose to breed worker or soldier (workers would after that be able to be a nurse or builder or havster) and then you could form you group like that giving them tallents

i youst choosed to be a queen but if we could say that i wanted to be a commander then you would start whit your group i mean not at when you start start but more when the eggs are coming out you could get him her im thinking a little like you know games were you have to get your pet a llittle like that but of course you wouldent be able to get other players group or from other people nest but if you started as a worker and started in a npc colony you would only be able to choose from that colony maby there is some races that can choos from other colonys but thats not what i want to bring op. but im mostly like i want! to play as a queen ant xD and make my own colony and breed a lot of ants and make that colony big and good looking xD and i still think that some should make it xD

So you would like to role play a queen?

Yea i do i think that its the most fun to lay the eggs and make the colony bigger and nurse and i will always think so what do you like to play as? xD

I would definitely play as a worker. Digging, building, and gathering go!