You know what? Space is stupid. There I said it. Change VO to a Deep Sea MMO.

The seas aren't deep enough. :^P

I've always wanted an archimedean dynasty sequel that didn't suck ..sigh

"Why can't we land on land?"

player-controlled whales?

"player-controlled whales?"
Fluke

You can't land on land because there is no land, the world is completely water.

And even if there was land, you couldn't land there because nobody has been on the land to make docks.

Awesome! We could have artificial islands like in Waterworld instead of space stations. Also sharks with laser beams! And...and we'd fire torpedoes instead of flares!! And miners would be fishermen!! We could have sonar-like-shit and little fishes instead of debris!! OH OH, and HUGE maelstroms instead of ion storms!
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Gonna write down some of this...

And krakens, you can't have a water-based video game without at least one kraken.

Sea monsters (like Krakens) could supplant the hive. =^p

Arr, the Kraken could supplant the Leviathan.

And pirates would fit in even better than before!

There could be some bass! And to catch thems bass you have to hit buttons in a sequence as symbols corresponding to those buttons scroll up to the top of the screen! Ooo, oo, and the buttons could be laid out on the floor for you to hit them with your feet! And there should be some music, probably in beat with the scrolling symbols!

Archimedean Dynasty was indeed good (its name sucks less in German, let me tell you)... and developed in Germany, too. Shame Massive Dev. went belly up.

It takes mining for fish to a whole new extreme.

My hovercraft is full of eels.

This would tie in nicely with concept of introducing fogs to sectors, as it could be explained as "Sea Fog". Ion storms would have to be changed to "Sea Ion Storms", however.

What's up with the necromancy? 'Raise Unthread' should not be performed on a regular basis, it disturbs the balance of the 'netstyx

It's his thread, he should be able to do whatever he wants with it.

*Red October music*

My God... it's full of eels!
</dave bowman>