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? 

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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!

I think thats sounds fun to i mean its fun to make the tunnels xD but that youst show that we all like something difrend like soldier fight worker build and queen breed xD then its not like all other mmorpgs like kill kill kill and you don't even do anything whit the game but here you can do something that kan not be ignored like digging you could build a colony whit a lot of tunnels and (me xD)queen breed workers to fill the tunnels and breed warriors to defend it xD