I tought first that I go Enforcer and bring your criminal asses to check by bullet in the forehead. But since you all seem to be going and hide behind badge, I'll just have to go Criminal and rocked laucher you whitout any excuse.

1. Is quite clearly single player game. It may could be multiplayer quest on some mmog if it would be altered a little. (Like group of people in same group would recieve hints and such. And they would have to go around world to check clues. And at some point they would be able to put the thing together as team.)

1. Wasnt there some mmog called agency or something like that?

2.3. Theres a game on facebook called Real Estate. You buy and sell stuff there and the prices change from time to time. Theres also some way to affect the prices with somekind of cartels. (It was very boring.)

2.3. I think there was somekind of Sim City style mmog in the making somewhere. Lost the link so I dont know what happened to it. I think it hasnt been released yeat. The sims serie producers are looking forward to repeat their success in this area I'm sure.

- All in all you are pretty much describing games that are more "simulators" than post their results online. They could be mmog's I guess, like football manager online but bigger. Honever they usually need somekind of "empire building" and "teaming up" to full online games.

- I like your idea on number 1. It could bring something new to the mmog genre where leveling is now pretty much killing npc monsters. (In my oppinion this has gone backwards. I had an agent in anarchy online and I used to sneak past the instance to kill the boss > assasination and then run out.)  I think future / scifi mmogs could use new approach to questing / leveling / gaining money. But I doubt it stands alone as such.

I second Eve Online...

While Eve is one of the most cruel pvp games around. It is also on league of its own when it comes to player driven economy and grafting.

I think Aion was the second biggest mmo in Asia last year. Biggest was still WoW. Both of them where way ahead of all others.

In europe Aion wasnt lauched yeat but theres big subscriber numbers posted this year. I'm quessing Aion will take the 2nd biggest mmo place worldwide for 2010.

Eve Online isnt even near those two but it holds nicely when you compare it to other space or scifi mmos.

Positive.

They may have not broken boundries when it comes to game mechanics but they delivered.

Better can of beans in the table than undelivered promices of steak.

Originally posted by alakram

Classes.

I 2nd that one.

Originally posted by Ozmodan

"8. No skills, experience or levels. "

Bingo!

Lesson number one, how NOT to write a MMO.

If you don't have skills or experience or some way to measure character development you don't have a MMO, all you have a fancy FPS game.

All I can say about this game is, remind everyone to avoid it like the plague!

Your lesson fails in many levels.

I started playing ao before the lauch of ai expancion.

I'm now playing wow and eve online and looking for replacement for wow.

Since I saw what funcom support is like I will never pay for another funcom game again. I also watched some of the other new mmorpg's that are coming out and I have to say that they really suck. It seems that new mmorpg's are wow clones these days and I would really hope that someone would develob new scifi mmorpg.

Funny things in new games and ao:

GnH minion system - ao metaphysics minions (whole game based on "new" minions and controlling them?)
WW open air pvp area - ao tower wars (ao version not as pretty but the consept is the same)
?? player housing - ao player rooms (havent seen this around in new games, still ao has it)
?? guild housing - ao guild city (this should be in every game, still ao implemented it quite early)
wow scorge invasion - ao alien invasion (both had suprice raids on cities)
instance end boss raids - ao alien invasion factional raids (both are eaqually hard to get good loot)
wow 30 000 quests & storylines  - ao mission booths that give infinite amount (both are equally boring)

It seems that funcom has all these nice consepts and they fail to deliver them so that they would be the next big thing.

I'm not gonna touch another funcom game. I player ao for 2 years and all the good memories i have from it are player produced and all the bad are company produced.

Zarobien:
64 solitus agent (cookie cutter, rerolled)
102 solitus enforcer (cookie cutter, rerolled)
206 solitus adventurer (cookie cutter, quitted)

Sienne:
84 solitus doctor (weak healer, rerolled)
134 nanomage doctor (aggro magnet, quitted)

Originally posted by vajuras

1) what starting attributes to choose for going to War?

2) how long will I have to carry/haul cargo before I get to do real pvp?

3) How long will it take me to grind up a ship that I will have a decent fighting chance with? What is the name of this ship?

4) What corps should I look into I will need the help of others to begin my plans for universal dominance (no- not BoB wanna join an underdog thats gonna take it to them or get involved in some other smaller skirmishes)