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[thatkid]

A multiplayer game, but not an MMO, which contains all of the following:
1) Mechanically intense fights against swarms of enemies and massive opponents (So like Dragon's Dogma, Dark Souls, etc.)
2) RPG Style character creation, stats, equipment, skills, etc. Because number crunching is fun.
3) Focus on or encouragement of teamplay. You can't just do your own thing, or you can but it will be harder. Work together to take down that giant ogre and survive the onslaught of his goblin army!
4) A robust crafting system. Equipment, potions, etc. can all be acquired through play, but the stats are better and the consumables more efficient when crafted.
5) Player housing. Build your own house, castle, whatever. Have a full base for your team to live in. Minecraft style, I guess.
6) A large world to explore, with the option to mod the graphics to make it beautiful and stuff.
7) NPCs and a quest system.

I can usually check like 3 or 4 off after a while of searching, so I might find a game (*cough*Wurm*cough*) with building, RPG-style character creation and crafting...but it's got no NPCs, combat is incredibly uninvolved and the world isn't terribly fun to explore. Which is cool, it's probably fun, but it's lacking elsewhere.

[scrdest]

There's only so much you can do to turn Glasgow into a dead lawless expanse.

Honestly, Fallout: UK would most likely make Glasgow into something like Vegas from NV. It would be back to business as usual before a week from the apocalypse passes.

[KingofstarrySkies]

A multiplayer game, but not an MMO, which contains all of the following:
1) Mechanically intense fights against swarms of enemies and massive opponents (So like Dragon's Dogma, Dark Souls, etc.)
2) RPG Style character creation, stats, equipment, skills, etc. Because number crunching is fun.
3) Focus on or encouragement of teamplay. You can't just do your own thing, or you can but it will be harder. Work together to take down that giant ogre and survive the onslaught of his goblin army!
4) A robust crafting system. Equipment, potions, etc. can all be acquired through play, but the stats are better and the consumables more efficient when crafted.
5) Player housing. Build your own house, castle, whatever. Have a full base for your team to live in. Minecraft style, I guess.
6) A large world to explore, with the option to mod the graphics to make it beautiful and stuff.
7) NPCs and a quest system.
I can usually check like 3 or 4 off after a while of searching, so I might find a game (*cough*Wurm*cough*) with building, RPG-style character creation and crafting...but it's got no NPCs, combat is incredibly uninvolved and the world isn't terribly fun to explore. Which is cool, it's probably fun, but it's lacking elsewhere.

Diablo might scratch the itch, but it's still far from your goal there.

There's only so much you can do to turn Glasgow into a dead lawless expanse.

Honestly, Fallout: UK would most likely make Glasgow into something like Vegas from NV. It would be back to business as usual before a week from the apocalypse passes.

Pffft. I bet London is Sierra all over again. But with ghoul snipers. AND THE QUEEN.
how am i not working at bethesda god damn

[origamiscienceguy]

A sandbox game that perfectly simulates real world free market economies for a large county. Each citizen will have needs and wants and entrepreneurs will always try to maximize profits creating an equilibrium.

Then you can mess with the market (like setting a minimum price of an object or something) And watch the entire market crash and burn. Then see what happens if you pay everybody the same wage. And watch the entire market crash and burn etc.

[Persus13]

A tactical strategy game where combat happens super quickly. You don't control your guys during combat; you give them a sequence of actions to perform, and you only get to command them again if they run out of actions without completing the objective. The longest mission would probably be two minutes from letting your soldiers go to completing the last objective.

This sounds a lot like Doorkickers. Its not quite this as you can change orders on the fly, but there's rewards for not deviating from the initial mission plan.

[Graknorke]

A sandbox game that perfectly simulates real world free market economies for a large county.

National governments would buy out the rights immediately. You think they'd let something like that sit in the hands of the general populace?

[TheBiggerFish]

If it was disguised well, yes.

And then they release the Enterprise Edition.

[RAM]

A sandbox game that perfectly simulates real world free market economies for a large county. Each citizen will have needs and wants and entrepreneurs will always try to maximize profits creating an equilibrium.

Then you can mess with the market (like setting a minimum price of an object or something) And watch the entire market crash and burn. Then see what happens if you pay everybody the same wage. And watch the entire market crash and burn etc.

And you could include score counters for things like scientific advancement, safety against individual violence, safety against national violence(military invasions), infrastructure quality+reliability+coverage, employment rates, poverty rates, suicide rates, education levels, private and public charitable donations, recreational spending... And do absolutely everything within your power to make it completely free of any form of bias or idealism or commonly accepted assumptions and instead make it as pure a model of the basic elements as possible...

[Niveras]

A sandbox game that perfectly simulates real world free market economies for a large county.

I don't know about "perfectly" but a lot of MMOs already kind do reflect real-world principles, to the extent that economists and others study them.

The quintessential example is the WoW plague or EVE's economy, but even simpler MMO economies function very similar to what you find in the real world.

[origamiscienceguy]

I know about MMO's with their player-driven economies. But I want a single-player sandbox which uses the law of supply and the law of demand to simulate economies that the player can mess with in whatever way they choose.

[Kot]

I know about MMO's with their player-driven economies. But I want a single-player sandbox which uses the law of supply and the law of demand to simulate economies that the player can mess with in whatever way they choose.

Patrician and Port Royale and whatever other trading games.

[origamiscienceguy]

I don't want it to be a trading game. I want to be an omnipotent being that can change the prices of certain items, force certain interest rates on everybody in the country etc. You know, a Sandbox. For me to mess around as much as I want with no consequences.

[TheBiggerFish]

From the outside, looking in, in other words?

[origamiscienceguy]

From the outside, looking in, in other words?

But able to mess with it any way you please.

[Bohandas]

From the outside, looking in, in other words?

Yeah.

That other thing would be boring.