This is my idea of the ULTIMATE game... Its intially an FPS with puzzle and RPG elements. You basically create you're character into what you want him to be. So he can be practically anything, a cop, a soldier, a drug addict, a normal joe, anything. And theres this WHOLE Galaxy for you to explore in GLORIOUS 3D! So when you rise up in the game, get promoted, get cash, you buy cars, and even space vehicles! So now its more like a space simulator with all this action happening in space AND the atmosphere! but it doesen't end there, you could gain even more rank, run for president and even begin to build you're own colonies on other planets, so it turns into a sim city/civilaztion game with real time politics ala Node War style, however all the battles that take place are done by other online players who can control large ships like Homeworld/IG 3 or singular fighters like Freespace. Then if there battles on the ground, its back to the FPS aspect again when you're a soldier. Then players who are generals, play it as a tactical game with tactical readouts, however the soldiers he's sending to war are REAL players too!
But thats all for the action oriented. You could be normal Joe owning a hot dog stand or even a night club as players go there to chat with other players and basically hang out. Or you could be a detective solving a case of murder! All sotry lines and plots that take place on a planet and in a city could be moderated by some sort of dungeon master, while the more galactic scale conflicts are not in a sence controlled, other than the waring/politicising factions.
Think about it... you're a top assassin and the president of you're nation hires you to kill the general of the enemy. So you take you're fighter, fly to the enemy base. Gather information from clubs, sneak into the base, take out a few guards, then assasinate the general! It would be a whole other world! A microcosm!
However this would require ****LOADS of people to play and even more for NPCs. Not to mention the computing power and bandwidth... But its out there... This game will come one day... Oh yes.. It will come!
