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Is there a good massively multiplayer online real time strategy game? Furthermore, if I have an idea, is there any way I can market it to game developers?

Time of Defiance is alright, I just didn't like the visual style or lack of a meaningful story. Otherwise....not really.

I dunno about developers, but I'm sure with enough cocaine you could convince some publisher to get a developer working on that.

Come to think of it you could probably convince a lot of people to do a lot of things with that technique.

Hmm.

You're going to have a hard time trying to freelance pitch a design to a big-time developer; they don't even like to look at design overviews or samples from docs as examples in resumes. It has to do with copyright and potential claims of infringement, but what it means is you pretty much have to be working for the company itself or have your own developer group pitch it to a producer/distributor.

Only game I recall that was clearly an MMORTS was Soverign, and that project was shelved ages ago.

Shattered Galaxy is another.

Akaramu Shinja wrote:Shattered Galaxy is another.

And sucked last time I played it. Unit pathfinding was horrible, as was the design of several models, and most players are 12yr old pricks who go off with their lightsaber-swinging ninja-bots to die horribly and leave your artillery units to the mercy of some cloaking super-bike

Never played it myself

Utsanomiko wrote:You're going to have a hard time trying to freelance pitch a design to a big-time developer; they don't even like to look at design overviews or samples from docs as examples in resumes. It has to do with copyright and potential claims of infringement, but what it means is you pretty much have to be working for the company itself or have your own developer group pitch it to a producer/distributor.

Only game I recall that was clearly an MMORTS was Soverign, and that project was shelved ages ago.

I remember reading about Sovereign back in 1999 as one of the most anticipated games of 2000 in a PC Gamer mag. I had always wondered if that game was finished or not. When did they decide to shelve the idea?

Oh it was shelved a long time ago. Well before Planetside came out. I seem to recall that the two were announced at the same time, but only one made it.
I seem to recall a MMORTS based in some sort of crazy steampunk envinornment. There were islands and ships that ran on steam and water and stuff. I recall playing a several day trial of it, it wasn't all that great. I have no idea what the name was, maybe it was mentioned already? My memory is sorta shady on the details. I remember portals where some sort of crazy faction sold stuff for water, or something. I'm really not sure. I think it existed... really!

Utsanomiko wrote:You're going to have a hard time trying to freelance pitch a design to a big-time developer; they don't even like to look at design overviews or samples from docs as examples in resumes. It has to do with copyright and potential claims of infringement, but what it means is you pretty much have to be working for the company itself or have your own developer group pitch it to a producer/distributor.

Only game I recall that was clearly an MMORTS was Soverign, and that project was shelved ages ago.

Meh. And the game idea looks so good on paper. I proposed implementing a command structure, different guilds, mercenaries, a full-blown economy, full AI backup...

Well, I can dream.

Surlethe wrote:Well, I can dream.

We all do, Surlethe. We all do.

InnocentBystander wrote:Oh it was shelved a long time ago. Well before Planetside came out. I seem to recall that the two were announced at the same time, but only one made it.
I seem to recall a MMORTS based in some sort of crazy steampunk envinornment. There were islands and ships that ran on steam and water and stuff. I recall playing a several day trial of it, it wasn't all that great. I have no idea what the name was, maybe it was mentioned already? My memory is sorta shady on the details. I remember portals where some sort of crazy faction sold stuff for water, or something. I'm really not sure. I think it existed... really!

Time of Defiance, as I said. It's alright, but I didn't like the aesthetics or nearly absent/irrelevant storyline.