Well, the arcade style mod that I had in mind would be very simple, very easy for a player to get into, and really focused entirely on a fun concept. Without having to worry too much about super-advanced graphics past some custom built .ALEs and custom built, very simple models, the game would be quick and easy to push through production.

The idea is to develop an arcade-like game for players to enjoy both off- and online, jump in and pick up for a few minutes to unwind from the day, then depart for their real mods. The inspiration came from Beat Hazard, honestly, and blossomed with discussion.

The overall-concept is very few systems with very few ships to choose from: Light and Fast, Medium and balanced, then Heavy and slow. The weapons would be designed the same way. Fast, inaccurate, a tickle but they shoot quickly; Medium that fires at a predictable speed and rate; and a heavy missile-type weapon. The ships would be designed to accommodate their respective weapon. The purpose of the game? Blow the crap outta each other, respawn quickly, and do it all over again.

The systems would be fairly simple. Nothing really past a base or two (maybe four for a four-way team battle). One system would have nothing but that base, and constantly spawning NPCs that come to attack you. A second system would have those four bases, different colors, and one system would have two bases and spawning NPCs to mix the two concepts.

Ships would be simple in design. I'm talking VERY polygonal with basic black and <team color> grid outlines. Nothing super fancy, so the .SURs and the textures would be quick and easy. Backdrops would be a simple grid to make it look very virtual, very arcade-y. Stations could be modeled the same way, or maybe even redoing the texture for the smaller Freelancer base which seems to fit the idea.

Overall, if we do it right, I could see this as something we could churn out in a month or two of dedicated work. It'd be light weight as a total conversion, and really just a fun place for people to come in, meet, play, laugh, then go on to bigger, better things. Something I think would really give that TSP feel.

~moved

It would be nice for deathmatch - at the end of the round appears list of frags - so players would go away on a cigarette break to discuss the results (and later players come in again to play the next round

Assault mode

Attacker team most dock at or destroy particular objects

How to make the docking part hard for them?

Create some kind of tunnel, maybe more than one in the system which leads to the objective

So they won't have the freedom to attack totally from where they wnt to - So the fight will start even earlier than at the objective base

Make spawners base (attacker) very strong with high range turrets, maybe more than 5k or so, that way defenders just can't farm their enemies the whole time at their base to prevent them from completing their objective

Maybe even different weapons & power ups could be created - I mean, a player just loots a weapon and he can mount it while in space (is that possible?), maybe via command
power ups such like damage or range boost, berserker (increased attack speed), bonus hull/shield...
Regeneration...
(Check via FLH and trigger those events)

Maybe if it is wise if you include such things that you keep the whole system "closed space", means that you are just somehow in some kind of a building with tunnels (otherwise it might be also hard to find those power ups)

what doy ou think about this one?

I agree with w0dk4 here, I like the voting system,


Also, there is no reason why there cant be multiple 'rooms' or 'lobbies'.

One of the lobbies can be just a simple pick up style shoot em up for the hell of it room. The other can be the showcase.

Eh, I wonder...since such an instant action server shouldn't occupy such much ressources (no npcs - at least not in the pvp modes)...might it be possible to run 2 T SP servers?

Well...I personally thought about the AA server & mod cyclus server, since there is reason to connect to the cyclus server, even if there are no players online - Cause there is a new mod to discover, eh? :p

Just a random thought as always...

btw w0dk4, nice info line in the forums about the players, Zuckersüßer ^_^