[Kard0]

If you're not into sci-fi, don't bother, it will look weird and awkward for you.
Finally decided to make it into an official thread, lets see how this goes, a lot to be done, I will do my best at it.
From where it all started.

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Well, I searched through the ad sections, but I didn't find any server's that might relate to a sci-fi or future themed roleplay. Does any of you know one or might be interested to bunch up, if there's enough people who would want something like that, we could organize up. Well, pretty much anyone who has ever watched Stargate or anything similar and has actually liked it, would be up for it. Kardo.

Current idea/feature list:

Ships

Main ship Hydra/Some sort of helicopter. Haven't decided yet. Hydra would fit in, since it can hover and fly, but there's the rocket firing problem.
Features: There's one "class" of ships at first, each one can be customized to fill in for a certain role on the battlefield, sounds like deathmatch, but it isn't.
Each class would have different attributes attached to it:
Life support - Shows how many people can be in the interior of the ship. If there's more than life support can handle, people will slowly start to lose HP until a horrible death.
Shield - Damage issues. My plan, haven't gotten to scripting yet, but, for example a Hydra gets hit for 500 damage, then it calculates that off from it's full hp, lets say 1000. That makes 1000-500=500. Then the Hydra would be "repaired" to full health but the shield value would go down and show up in the ships HUD.
Structure - When shields go down the ship starts to take real damage.
Cargo - Each ship would be able to take aboard different materials, which I will get into later, each would weigh/have a different volume which would take more/less space. Certain ships ( For example the mining one ) have a bonus capacity for ores for example.

PS: If anyone knows a spaceship mod for Hydra, or any other flying thing, I'd appreciate it. ( And no, I don't want the UFO thingy I've seen around used to troll )

Current classes for ships:
Medvac - A moving hospital mostly, MAYBE a respawn point at a later point.
Interior:
http://www.upload.ee/image/1420332/medevacp1_V1.png
http://www.upload.ee/image/1420333/medevacp2_V1.png

Cargoship: Mainly for moving cargo, greater cargo bonus
Interior:
http://www.upload.ee/image/1419440/cargoship_v1.png

Troop transport: A specially designed ship to move troops, bigger life support feature, restocking ammo/weapons.
Interior:
http://www.upload.ee/image/1419675/t...ansport_v1.png

Mining ship: A ship with what you are able to mine different ore and analyze it.
Interior:
http://www.upload.ee/image/1419736/miningship_v1.png

Upcoming:
Bomber: Ability to assist ground forces in assaults. Atleast one person must stay inside the interior and when gets called can drop bombs on targets.

Engineering vessel: Possibly to repair the main ships/outposts?

Resource system

I'd like this to be rather complex, enables trading runs and such.
Main resources ( haven't figured all out yet )
Water - Obvious
Food - Obvious

Deuterium - Used as fuel for different ships. Would be produced by different outposts owned by factions. One small example, didn't turn out well but explains my thought a bit better:http://www.upload.ee/image/1420331/fuel_outpost.png

Lime/H2O - To use in life support systems.
Ores - many different ones in mind, used to produce items/ship components.
Stuff produced by ores:
Conductors, ship engines and so on.

Outposts would provide most of the resources, they would accumulate resources and you would have to transfer them to ships etc.
Possibility to create your own faction from scratch, build bases etc. Needs a lot of scripting, I have come over a few ideas, but it'll take atleast a day to get it running. Any help here would be appreciated aswell.


Galaxy map
A textdrawn System map, that's what I've come up with so far. Main ships(Bigger ones) can "warp" themselves between systems. ( Just changing the interior/ virtual world so it just disappears and can only be accessed if you actually go into that specific system)
Each system would have it's stationary bases.

Story
Well, currently I'm going for 2 factions, some sort of either democratic/good versus "No man, no problem" people.
Haven't made up much mind here.


Any contribution/idea at this point would be just awesome.
As this seems to be huge, but still, I'm very sure that after I manage to put enough effort into it, enough people will get interested with this idea. So far it's been amazing, all the feedback has just been awesome. This isn't an order, it's just a humble request at this point.

Still needed badly at this point:
Big ships, big enough to fit a Hydra in while being mid air. I don't know that much objects in mapping yet to make one, that looks realistic, but I will try. If any mappers have some spare time, I'd appreciate if you have a go at it.


Team behind it
Kardo - Currently trying to get everything together.


Also, congratulations if you actually read the entire thing, I'm happy.

[Mr187]

The only problem with that is the fact your limited with area's that are based off the 90's and same goes for the vehicles. Even trying to roleplay like it's now days it's quite a interesting matter. But I bet it's been done.

[Kard0]

Pretty much anything can be RP-ed and scripted aswell. A few older models would fit in. Or there's also a possibility to map entirely custom maps and use airplanes/choppers mostly, which can also be modded. I agree, if something like this should be started, a decent team would be needed, but it would end up rather interesting.

[Mr187]

Than you would have to force players to download your mods or custom IMG. This won't be easy for sure for a new server. You will have lots of people that will complain about not wanting to download it. Make sure to keep that in mind.

[Kard0]

Indeed, well, I'll give mapping it all a go, see what int's etc I manage to come up with. This probably won't work out all by myself, but hell, going to try it anyways.

[Namaco]

Good idea for a roleplay.

I might check that server out to do a review.

[Aoi_Rikuto]

Yeah sounds cool! Just keep stock stuff and make a whole new map.

[Kard0]

Started with the work, not much done, but I'll keep at it.
What's been done so far:
Done 3 different small "shuttle" interiors. Can be used to enter different shuttles and get transported around via /command.

Ideas so far:
I've been thinking.
1. A big ship, hangars and such somewhere in the Sky which can be moved around, most likely by transferring to different virtual worlds / interiors. A textdrawn "galaxy map" where you can see the current location of you.
Since it's hard to get the sci-fi feeling with just text, I'm attempting to push heavy on different textdraws. Also, if anyone knows any sci-fi themed mods, please share. Hydra can be very easily modded into an shuttle of any kind. But there's a problem, there can be only one kind of shuttles then, that got me thinking again. Okay, everything is being ran by Hydras, what if they look similar, can be explained in the story of the whole thing, but they actually have markings on them, depending on faction. Every faction's "shuttle" would have a different interior where you can RP and travel around in. Would be pretty decent. Bigger airplanes can also be modded, the entire thing seems to heavily focus on mods somehow, I'll think something around it somehow.
Well, that's all that I've gotten together so far, if anyone is interested, especially a mapper/scripter, let me know, I've done both before, but not on a really high level.
Kardo

[[DK]JaloNik]

How? SA is based on 1990's. There's almost nothing to rolepaly future with. I dunno

[leong124]

Some space tunnels would give future feel I think.
If you want a more futuristic feel you can use more lights(neon lights, laser, etc.), and the server would be more similar to free roam, since you may use the teleports and even spawning vehicles.

About the IMG, if they sounds very interesting people would not hesitate to download it.