Hello fox !
Here two things i got in mind to be in this game !
Well, first, this game should have an RTS part. Allowing players to manages unites, other ships. Of course, thoses other units could doing their own task as long as the player dosen't request it. This could give a liitle more "live" into that game. Eg. you start the game with a kind of NPC faction cube. Then the player drop it on a planet. After what, some npc come alive and start raising your empire. Well, npc are going their way, making building, extractor, vehicule, space ship, trading, traveling and exploring then of course fighting with other faction (that player could set or vs randome one). However, player could control each of them. Like selecting several and ask them to follow you, or mining to this particular place, or patrol/ guard this kind of area. Limit should be only the size of his hard drive.
Planet's. Well, something who disturbing me a bit are the flat planets. And well i know that it is doable with procedural method to have cube map as a sphere map. Check this video to see what i mean : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7eREddMjt4. There also a lot of "tutorial" who explain how to do it : http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/7870/spherical-terrain-object.html, http://www.nullpointer.co.uk/content/procedural-planets/. Well, this kind of content will be just... awsome.
Here two things i got in mind to be in this game !
Well, first, this game should have an RTS part. Allowing players to manages unites, other ships. Of course, thoses other units could doing their own task as long as the player dosen't request it. This could give a liitle more "live" into that game. Eg. you start the game with a kind of NPC faction cube. Then the player drop it on a planet. After what, some npc come alive and start raising your empire. Well, npc are going their way, making building, extractor, vehicule, space ship, trading, traveling and exploring then of course fighting with other faction (that player could set or vs randome one). However, player could control each of them. Like selecting several and ask them to follow you, or mining to this particular place, or patrol/ guard this kind of area. Limit should be only the size of his hard drive.
Planet's. Well, something who disturbing me a bit are the flat planets. And well i know that it is doable with procedural method to have cube map as a sphere map. Check this video to see what i mean : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7eREddMjt4. There also a lot of "tutorial" who explain how to do it : http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/7870/spherical-terrain-object.html, http://www.nullpointer.co.uk/content/procedural-planets/. Well, this kind of content will be just... awsome.