Firefly/Serenity MMO

[Jebus]

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72263-0.html

Doesn't sound like they have Whedon involved in it, I'm apprehensive.

[jotabe]

It sounds like they want to use the " 'verse " for their game... not that they have already designed it. If they actually do, it's likely they would get Whedon.

[Fris]

This might be an MMO I'd actually play. Assuming they don't completely screw it up.

[fawkes]

I'd play, but it might be dangerous to my use of time.

[eriador]

it might be dangerous to my use of time.

Uhhh. And pweb isn't??

[VelvetElvis]

I don't know what you are talking about.

[Dr. Mobius]

I wonder how they plan to deal with time spent in interplanetary flight. Single player RPs can accelerate time, but MMOs have to let it go. It'll be interesting to see how they balance realistic scale and physics against just sitting there watching your ship travel from point A to point B most of the time.

[fawkes]

They might have some sort of minigames on the ships to keep you occupied.

[Dr. Mobius]

The mentioned traveling for days and sometimes weeks on the show. They'll probably scale that down a bit, but even so you'll still get bored of the stupid minigames during an hours long flight.

[Craig]

Hmmm.... That's really interesting. If they do a decent job it'll probably be the first MMO game I ever buy. Of course, the second would be one dedicated to EG.

Salaam

[mr_thebrain]

well with star wars mmo they put almost all the content on the planets. transporting from one to another was fast. if you wanted space combat you just had to launch another way. i'm assuming it'd be much the same.

[Dr. Mobius]

Ah, that would be a good compromise, I guess. I haven't played any MMOs myself, I've just heard horror stories of the absurdly long travel times in EVE which seems to be more focused on space flight than planets.