[gameprogrammer] Re: MMO Idea
- From: "Laurence Grant" <larrygrant@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:55:56 -0500
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> I think the concept of several "career" paths would work but achieving the
> position of CEO could be tricky. If there are too many, the position
> becomes watered down. If there are not enough, there are too few
> opportunities for attaining that level of advancement. In both cases, the
> game would suffer. As for other careers such as pilot, soldier, scientist,
> trader, smuggler, or whatever they are, it would be easy to have high
> positions at the end of each of those career paths. Again the problem
> still arises that everyone wants to be the best. So you are faced with the
> same dilemma.
>
> How to balance the game without destroying it, that is the real task.
> People are going to complain about anything you do in a MMO, history shows
> this. Lets assume you have (X) amount of top positions in a career path.
> Are there any instances through inactivity (a player gets to the top and
> then only logs that character enough to keep the position, without really
> doing anything to affect the game world) would be able to lose that
> position via some type of status (level, experience, money, . . .) to keep
> the game competitive. Face it, if you are shooting for corporate
> simulation, there must be knock down drag out competition. That way, a new
> player always has something to aspire to instead of reaching a certain
> level only to find all the work they have done has gotten them as far as
> they can go.
>
The idea of a board of directors is so they can over power the ceo if he's
not upholding his end of the bargain. There will be automated in-game
emails sent to alert directors when the ceo or other directors aren't
participating. If the leaders of the corporation aren't holding up their
end of the bargain, then players always have the freedom to switch
corporations, or perhaps try and stage a coo (did I spell that right?).
> I imagine the number of top positions could be simply based on the
> percentage total players. Either way, it will be a heck of a chore to try
> making people happy by ensuring there are opportunities.
I foresee thousands of planets with 10's or 100's of corporations on many of
these planets. The game engine will be architected for unlimited
scalability. I hate games that say they are MMO but to handle the growth
they create separate copies of the game world that don't interact with each
other. My professional expertise is in corporate computing, and I'm very
confident that my back-end architecture will handle 10's of thousands of
planets and galaxies and millions of potential players. If doesn't have to
start that big, but it'll be able to scale easily. Then again, if it ever
gets that big we wont be having these discussions will we :-)
I also expect many planets to start out as uninhabited and undiscovered, and
that many corporations might play for months or longer and never cross each
others paths.
>
> Steven
>
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