Play By Web : Starfury!

[geoschmo]

So, I have this idea. It's probably not an original idea, but I can't remember anyone doing it before if it's been talked about. I could setup a multiplayer scenario on PBW where each player is in control of just a ship instead of an empire. You'd need some sort of moon base just to keep in contact, but that's no problem. We'd need some sort of non-player empire controlled by a game master. All the players would keep a military alliance with the galactic empire, which would allow them to refuel their ship at Imperial bases. Then you'd be flying around the quadrant doing stuff. We could give you cargo to transport from place to place to earn a living. The empire could give bounties for pirates killed etc. Maybe have some weak AI races for the pirates, or just other players. Over time you could upgrade your ship or buy additional ones.

I see no technical reason why this wouldn't work. Anyone have any thoughts, or see any problems I might be missing? Does it sound interesting?

Geoschmo

[Ragnarok-X]

That indeed sounds interesting. The map should be quite small though, to ensure every player has something to do each turn except clicking "end turn".

[FLX]

Sounds great here's one player *rises one finger*

[geoschmo]

Come, join. We will discuss things further here in this thread, but the more people that join the game the more likely I am to remain motivated enough to actually get it off the ground.

Here's a link:
PBW: Starfury!

[bearclaw]

Sounds interesting indeed!. Would there be missions like in Star Fury too? I guess the NP-Empire would hand those out. With only one moon base, how would maintenance affect things? What sort of mod changes would need to be implemented? if any..

[FLX]

hmmm here are some questions:
how will we pay maintenance cost of our ship?, and what happens with the trading generated by allies?

Should we use some roleplaying mod?

[bearclaw]

Shadowstar has created a wonderful experiance called StarScape. In that game, he acts as a GM and has developed some very impressive ways of handling Game Master issues during a game. I'm sure he'd have oodles of suggestions and comments on GM'ing a Starfury game.

In fact, that gives me an idea for a suggestion for SEV...
(heads off the to SEV suggestion post...)

[Fyron]

Will our ships have extra supplies or more efficient engines? You can not explore very much of the galaxy with starting supply levels...

[Slynky]

Imperator Fyron said:
Will our ships have extra supplies or more efficient engines? You can not explore very much of the galaxy with starting supply levels...

Maybe he intends on us being on friendly terms with the "imperium" (he said something about being able to refuel below) .

[Fyron]

That depends on how much he intends to do to set up the Imperium... and how many AI empires will there be?