MMORPGs need Battletech

[podfish]

Hello, new community member here.../wave

The selection of sci-fi MMORPGs is quite abysmal.  And among those, none of them really feature mech based combat.  There is a market gap and it needs to (and ultimately will) be filled.  As you already know, there are a lot of players out there who are hungry for a mech-based game.  There are also a lot of players who are greatly dissatisfied with the currect selection of MMORPGs.  Any plans for this game to become an MMORPG?  ...Could be the coolest game ever   

Also, great work!!!  How can one make donation$ to this project?

[Criminal]

Hey there Podfish and welcome to the forums!

The idea behind an MMO espescially for battletech is a great one, and we've h discussed it before. Unfortunately MMO's are a HUGE undertaking and honestly i didn't want to commit the team to anything i didn't feel very strongly would get finished. The idea has come up many times though and I would support anyone taking off with such a project, the undertaking would just be to large for the team i feel atm.

We do all love MMO's and actually Death_Grin as well as Kamikaze have been discussing a larger project of MMO's proportions when this title is published.

If you want to donate to keep the site running please donate to calin_101@hotmail.com (since i pay for the site out of my pocket)

Look forward to hearing more of your ideas!

Regards,

Crim

[death_grin]

Yup, a battletech mmo would be awesome.  Player ran and owned merc companies would be great.  One MMO I've been thinking alot about for a long time is a complete SCI-Fi bcombat MMo where you could fight in orbit and assault planets using dropships.  Also have shipboard boarding actions.  I think Battletech would be ideal for this or our own IP.  I do wonder how much it would cost to get a license for the material.

[xKamikazex]

Oh wow. Well basically, BT already has all the rules laid out since it is a PNP version of an RPG (Just like D&D) so all the MMO rules are already there. I think it would just take some time to implement. I think there was also an attempt to do this by a 3rd party group that used MW4 as it's base (who knows why...). The name eludes me currently, but that's probably cause I remember that it looks more like a league to me than a real MMO.