SirTimberWolf Posted November 10, 2003 Okay.. so I was looking at the Screenshots for Resident Evil Outbreak and I was thinking... wouldnt it be neat to play a DooM based MMORPG or even a DooM RTS? *Ponders* What do you think? 0 Share this post Link to post
DooMBoy Posted November 10, 2003 It might, if it were executed correctly. 0 Share this post Link to post
Dunbar Posted November 10, 2003 An RTS would be cool. Hell, I'd pay to see it be made. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sephiroth Posted November 10, 2003 i have said that before. yes it would be cool ironicly halo was originaly set to be an RTS 0 Share this post Link to post
Scuba Steve Posted November 10, 2003 What I want to know.. is why it's AN RTS instead of A RTS. Do we change it to 'an' because it flows smoother with RTS, like we do with vowels. Or do we use 'a' because "a Real Time Strategy" is correct over "an Real Time Strategy". 0 Share this post Link to post
SirTimberWolf Posted November 10, 2003 <--uses "an" because it flows smoother with the acronym :) 0 Share this post Link to post
Grimm Posted November 11, 2003 A and an are based on vowel sounds, because it generally doesn't sound good to have two vowels directly in a row. (That are pronounced seperately.) So, if a word begins with a vowel sound and not a letter, we say "an" anyway. i.e., an hour. Now that I think about it, RTS doesn't begin an vowel sound anyway. I guess it just sounds better. (Hell, how it sounds is the reason we have an and a anyway, so it kinda makes sense. Kinda.) 0 Share this post Link to post
Ubik Posted November 11, 2003 That reminds me, I still need to do some work on converting one of the Starcraft races to the Doom monsters. :( 0 Share this post Link to post
SirTimberWolf Posted November 11, 2003 I'm sitting here at work, I spent most of thwe morning composing ideas.. heres what we have so far. Engine BASE: ZDoom 2.0.52, with ST's netcode and some other modifications. Mods: Character system, experience, server side weapons fire code. Hub code extended to allow players to freely leave and join the hub. Hubs break down into 3 kinds: Hemispheres Regions Sites Since the entire moon of phobos is 22km in diamiter I hope you can see how this can work... :) If not.. no biggie.. it will be come clear :D CURRENTLY The plan is to have servers that host 32 Players, but exchange character info on a common server (thus elimating the need to make new characters for every diffrent server you play on.) Classes: Marines: Heathiest of the 3, Do most damage of any class, has access to exotic firepower. Army: Have access to a lot of fire power, slightly less fit then marines, has some technical ability. Civilians: Weakest and most poorly armed, however they can do things with technology that others can only dream of. The focal point of this game will be the original maps... located in the Stickney crater. Though the other hemispheres contain stuff like power substations and landing pads, and mines.. all sorts of stuff... the ultimate goal of this will to be either survive, escape or over take the anomoly and purge phobos of the menece... :) I'll post more info after work... be safe everyone :D 0 Share this post Link to post
Jonathan Posted November 11, 2003 Well a Doom RTS would be interesting, but I'd rather see a MMOFPS. I dunno if there is a commercial game like this, but I've always thought there's a market for a free diablo-style online fps. You could have a "town" area with shops for buying weapons and shit, a bank to store stuff then a bunch of "dungeons" full of slowly respawning monsters. You could have slow statbuilding and the ability to get more powerful weapons/armour/ammo etc as you reach the harder dungeons and fight more powerful monsters. You could have non-pvp areas for newbs and pvp areas for veterans. You could have resurrection with stat-loss servers and hardcore/permadeth ones. Plus you could do a version which used the freedoom resources and make it totally free for anyone to play. Goddamnit, somebody fucking should do this. 0 Share this post Link to post
SirTimberWolf Posted November 11, 2003 This is a warning/invitation: For ANYONE interested in mapping for this project do ALL THE research you can get a hold of regarding phobos... yahoo.com has a lot of good links and pictures... When this takes footing it is expected of mappers to know what the planet is like and stuff.. :P We already have a couple good mappers... I'll post a "what im shooting for in a map" thing soon... :D Hope this makes sense.. :D I will probably be doing interviews for mappers and 2d/3d artists soon so if your interested please PM/aim/ym/or email me 0 Share this post Link to post
Sephiroth Posted November 11, 2003 peresonaly i hate that massive online RPG stuff. not only do you have to buy the game but you have to pay to play the damn thing. maybe if all the games used the same network i could see a monthly fee. but not a fee for each game. i hope this sort of trend dies out real quick. i saw final fantasy XI but was disappionted that it was a MMORPG and that it had a monthly fee 0 Share this post Link to post
SirTimberWolf Posted November 11, 2003 This wont have a fee my man... This will be community based. ;) 0 Share this post Link to post
Grimm Posted November 11, 2003 an arr tee ess I'm an idiot, leave me alone. :P but I'd rather see a MMOFPS. Planetside is an MMORPG FPS. It's not very good. 0 Share this post Link to post
Grimm Posted November 11, 2003 an arr tee ess I'm an idiot, leave me alone. :P but I'd rather see a MMOFPS. Planetside is an MMORPG FPS. It's not very good. 0 Share this post Link to post
Grimm Posted November 11, 2003 an arr tee ess I'm an idiot, leave me alone. :P but I'd rather see a MMOFPS. Planetside is an MMORPG FPS. It's not very good. 0 Share this post Link to post
Epyo Posted November 11, 2003 Not all online games are pay to play. In fact only one PS2 game is, and that's everquest. Edit: I'm stupid, ignore this. 0 Share this post Link to post
Jonathan Posted November 11, 2003 Grimm said:Planetside is an MMORPG FPS. It's not very good. Perhaps, but that doesn't mean a MMOFPS can't be done well. For one thing, Planetside is purely player-versus-player. A game featuring spawning bad guys as well as pvp would be more varied I think, since you'd have potential to play it pseudo-singleplayer, co-op or deathmatch, or some crazy mix of all three. 0 Share this post Link to post
Doomestation Posted November 12, 2003 Timber, you have a good idea, but in order for people to understand it they need a (modified) story line to understand the concept. This for you people (like me, once) who don't know the story: From Timber himself: In doom the hellspawn/invaders/whatever invaded through this portal that humans found on Phobos and Deimos. We built a base around em.. studied em and played with em till the accident happened. It has been 2 weeks since the initial invasion began. Marines have begun landing drop ships and sending troops to investigate. Others from the army and civilian sector have yet to hear of any disturbance. *there is an army base on the opposite side of the "main" set of instalations.* Soon after landing the marine's dropships are destroyed leaving them stranded on the desolate rock and the invaders have begun searching for more territory *Mind you dooms "original" instalations have all been taken over at this point* Soon the army base finds itself under attack Thats where it starts This is when the fun begins There is all out chaos Players fight to re-take the moon Some of you might think of this like Command and Conquer or even Star Craft, but this story and game should and will be better. 0 Share this post Link to post
geekmarine Posted November 12, 2003 Damn, this sounds AWESOME!!! I really like it! I really hope something comes of this. Ooooo, I can just see it now. Doom 3, be damned. This is what we really need! 0 Share this post Link to post
SirTimberWolf Posted November 12, 2003 Any Suggestions/comments/ideas/etc should be sent to doomwar2003@yahoo.com 0 Share this post Link to post
SirTimberWolf Posted November 13, 2003 The official doomwar forum is now on zdaemon.org http://forums.zdaemon.org/index.php check it out :) 0 Share this post Link to post
SirTimberWolf Posted November 13, 2003 Check out doomwar's board all info is postted there http://forums.zdaemon.org/index.php Doom War 0 Share this post Link to post
Hobo Posted November 14, 2003 Grimm said:Planetside is an MMORPG FPS. It's not very good. (Nice triple post :P) anyways, I think Planetside is rather fun, if you have the internet connection and enough RAM for it. 0 Share this post Link to post