Stargate online game

[XToDaZ]

I'm wondering if anyone is interested in playing a Stargate text-based online ?
I've been wondering about making a real world politics game online, but recently I think a Stargate game would attract more reliable players as most players are into the concept itself instead of bombing the **** out of everyone and destroying all built-in diplomatic models.

What idea do I have ?
Every player own it's own planet in a galaxy with it's own coördinates and starts with the choice between various races (human, humanlike races, asgard, goa'uld and some more new ones) and various technologies. They also start out with 3 other gate coördinates and can explore the universe to other planets with various life forms and conditions.
Some worlds will posess secret without inhabited life forms, and those secrets might be technologies, gate coördinates tablets or hostile activities.

The goal of the game is to maintain diplomatic relations, grow stronger, maybe even conquer some worlds and set off-world bases to create a real Stargate feel to the game.
No forum will be installed, you'll only be able to contact the people of the planets you know by PM, and every world has it's message board where discussions and negotiations can take place.

Ofcourse, this is only an idea so far, but before I start building the basics (set up the database for many world with different coördinates and conditions, add new races and languages) I'll have to know if people over here would be interested in seeing such a game. Also, if someone knows quite a bit about PHP, pixelart (visuals for races, gods and icons), MySQL or so and would be interested to set something up, I'd like to know. It's a bit too much to do by myself perhaps, and I think it would really be worth it

[alphamale]

I think its a really good idea I would play

Maybe you should look into converting the BlackNova tradrers php scripts

http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/7933.html
download- http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=14248
http://blacknova.sourceforge.net/

[Elite Anubis Guard]

sounds like a GORM? Will you have to buy weapons and stuff and attack your enemies aswell?

[XToDaZ]

Buy weapons ? Well, you'll have to invent them en build them. Ofcourse you could trade weapons for a gate coordinate or you could steal them from another planet after victory or in a spy mission.

The game however will have an inbuilt alignment meter that will show whether you're good or evil and so on so don't just attack away

[.:Lemon:.]

Sounds cool- you've got a lot of good ideas there! I'd play it

[lionel_pendergast_rocks]

id play it too. as long as one, you had to manually dial the gate, two, the graphics were great and three, there were plenty of races to chose from.

[XToDaZ]

id play it too. as long as one, you had to manually dial the gate, two, the graphics were great and three, there were plenty of races to chose from.

The plan is that you have either a DHD in Flash where you push the symbols one by one, or maybe a computer dial (same concept, different graphics) or a fast dial remote (symbols encrypted in a list)
But I repeat once more, this looks like a huge project, it WILL take time

[.:Lemon:.]

But I repeat once more, this looks like a huge project, it WILL take time

Good luck with it, its gonna take a lot of patience

[XToDaZ]

For you of for me ?

[Elite Anubis Guard]

sounds interesting, id prolly give it ago!

[.:Lemon:.]

For you of for me ?

For both

[alphamale]

Dont use Flash

PHP code with pixelart would be the best

[XToDaZ]

Dont use Flash

PHP code with pixelart would be the best

True, but if I want to have a nice dialing sequence without reloading the page after each chevron has been entered, I'm gonna need Flash I'm affraid.
Or maybe some other programmer's code that I don't know how to use

[alphamale]

You 100% sure? cant you use imagemagik instead of the GD Library? I'm not a coder myself but there must be away

[Cpn. Chris(tine) Bowman]

I'd definitely play.

[Starlilica]

WOW..... this.... sounds...... AWESOME! You'd better do it, 'cause I wanna play!! Hmmm, well, disgreguarding the Harry Potter part, a HP fan-site is doing something similar. The addy is here. You might want to ask for tips and the engine that they use.

[WraithWarrior]

Brilliant idea. I would help, but I cannot program anything except VB and Im not brilliant at that but if you tell me where I can find tutorials for the languages you want to use, then I'd help yeah. And Id definately play, youv'e got good ideas behind it

[sekinoss]

Wow what a coincidence. I was wondering the same thing. Currently
sketching out details of the game. Basically I have the same idea as
you, but difference being the game will be all-goauld (i.e. many system
lordds). I think it would be weird if we have many tauri each with different
planets, etc.

Also, I dont think we should be bogged down with chevrons/gate
addresses. Just have stargates as means of transport (though tablets of
gate addresses is a great idea).This is after all a strategic level game and
Apophis doesn't have to remember gate addresses. As mentioned before
game should be in PHP/MySQL.

-Sekinoss

[XToDaZ]

I'm working on it, trying to make a mainframe and such, but midterms are coming and that means thousands of pages to learn and less time to work on this ofcourse
Anyway, how I saw it, is that everybody could play as a Goa'uld, human or other lifeform (maybe even fictional), and that Earth would somewhat be the center of it all, a moderator/administrator planet ... not to be selfish, but to resolve that issue.
Personally, I think exploring and problem solving would be more unique of a game, than command and conquer the Goa'uld

[sekinoss]

Ok now you've lost me. So you're making a politic driven stargate
game, with Earth as the center? Can you describe the gameplay
idea a bit more?

-Sekinoss