Very interesting thread indeed... to be honest, I've thought about making my own MMO many times sometime in the future. (of course its only day dreaming, dont expect anything
). I've thought of 2 options actually but focused on the first one more. The first one is of course a Pirate Based MMO but more like adding features to POTCO.
Here's some of my ideas for it - some of them mentioned by
Kat Truewalker :
1. First of, the
Servers would be different. People would have to choose the Server they want to play on and they wouldn't be able to switch servers like we do now, unless they have a Transfer Token.
2. The D-Names would work 'Globally' meaning that if someone was playing on a different Server than us we would be able to talk to them, but not play together in the same place.
3. Transfer Tokens, as well as Special Clothing, Special Weapons (ex. dolls that can vanish people), Character Tokens (tokens you can use so you can modify the body of your pirate or face), all those could be found in a Shop or
Market sponsored by Disney or whoever was owning POTCO that time I was daydreaming
You could buy from the Market by buying points with real money or using prepaid cards.
4. Trade System. Everyone would want that. There would be
3 ways to trade though:
- Through 'message in a bottle' or as I was calling it, 'pirate e-mail'. You could send gold, salvage or ingredients through that.
- Auction House. There, Pirates could put the unwanted salvage for sale - easy way to get gold, especially if the salvage is rare.
- Trade Option on the Profile card of every Pirate.
5. Auction House. Besides being able to sell
salvage there, you could sell
ingredients (ex. for potions or to craft your own clothing),
enhancements/boosts,
recipes(ex. they would show the stuff needed to craft something, enhancement, clothing part, weapon).
6. The tables by the Gypsies or perhaps areas like Weapon shops would also support
Recipe Crafting not only Potion Brewing. For Weapons, Ship parts, Clothing parts, Furniture.
7. You would have to do
certain Quests from the Tailors, or the other NPCs to get the required Salvage like twigs or haystacks or rope to do your clothing etc.
8. The Graphics wouldn't be the same as POTCO. Textures be more realistic sort of like this:
9. Pirates would be able to
board the ship normally, like walking on the dock and then deck. Not having to wait on the loading screen to show them on the ship.
10. They would be able to open doors on the ship such as Captain's Cabin and
go everywhere as shown in the image:
11. The
Captain would be able to
decorate their
Cabin such as adding desk, a globe, portraits and treasures.
12. There would be areas in islands where the Pirates could shop for stuff like that ^
13. In addition to the 11th one, yes the game would have a
Decorating system which would also support
Guild Base Building as well as
Pirate Home Building.
14. Pirates would be able to have
Storage Place in their either Home or Ship where they could save their tonics, salvage or clothes so they can have room in their inventory.
15. About
Guilds now:
- They would have a Guild Base which everyone would be able to Decorate or only the people in Higher Ranks.
- Everyone would gain Guild Points from their battles with enemies along with the XP and Crew Bonuses. They would help buy Items or recipes to craft and place in the Guild Base.
- In the tattoos, Pirates would see their Guild Tattoo. A special Symbol designed by the GM. This could also be a badge displayed like the SvS, PvP and Founder ones.
- Pirates could be able to invite people in their base by telling them a secret password, or word, or anything which would ensure Guild's privacy from unwanted people.
16. The game would be
Free to playtill lvl50. However, people would still be able to buy stuff from the Market, Do all the Quests available and wear all the clothing.
17. Buying from the Market would reward the account with
Points which could be redeemed and give the Pirates in that account Special Items that would be only available like that.
18. Even though the game would be Free to play, there would be some special stuff for
UA members only. One of those would be Special Raids, Events or Trials, Mastered Pirates could get Special Salvage from to use in their Power Enhancements and boosts.
19. Chats. Besides Local, Crew and Guild, I was thinking that since Servers would be set differently it would be good to have a Server Chat, Looking for Crew Chat, Broadcast and Help Chat. It would be good for the community too, to bond together.
20. There would also be a
Blacklist posted in the Website, where every Pirate who doesn't follow the Code would be there. This could be Hackers, People who have been Reported over a bunch of times, etc.
21. Of course the Chat wouldn't be moderated so Adults would have to look after their kids.
22. Updates more often, as well as GM events.
Uh... that's all I can think of now atm. I know there's more I'm missing
The other MMO I was thinking about as my 2nd option, but like I said I haven't ''worked'' much on it would be SuperHero Based and of course it would include all the features mentioned above and more. Currently I am volunteering in Character creation and Lore for the revival of COH, the Phoenix Project so I haven't had time to 'daydream' that much
EDIT: Sorry for the long post