kind of reminds me of a game some of my friends used to play called "rabbit". basically, 2 or more people with CB''s in their cars would drive around town looking for each other. im not sure exactly how it worked (i never played it). i think that it was kind of a marco-polo game. if i ask you where you were, then you would have to answer by what street name you were on. then iwould try to get to that street while you were still there or something like that. i dont know.

i like the idea a lot...but you would have to tone it down a lot. instead of many miles, make it a lot smaller like maybe a school campus or something. (i wouldnt want to spend all of my money on a gps, laptop, the game, PLUS gas)

and i think that if you implement this into some sort of palm device would be a much better approach (plus a lot cooler).

-Luxury

As cool as this idea sounds, I''m with Ironblayde. Stopping to red lights? Naah, the another "tank" is chasing us...

I think there would be equally much explosions in real life as in the game world

Real paintball with GPS radar, that''d be something. If you could only see your team mates in your palm pilot radar, for example.

-Hans {home page} {e-mail}

quote: two words: Laser Challenge

- Laser Challenge is boring because there''s no special conditions that can be used, except for putting duct tape over your IR sensor. -This game would allow (through the server) field "conditions" -that is, information- that Laser Challenge cannot. The field has to be big enough to force the players to rely on that infromation during play though, which means automobiles.

quote: ..... Also, there''s lots of people out there who are, shall we say,
complete sicko twisted perverts. There are other people out
there who are, shall we say, children. Kids would love this
game because its in real world scale and still a computer game,
but sicko freaks would just get the GPS data off the server and
there''d be a lot of either A: very scared kids running away
from afformentioned perverts or B: very mentally damaged kids
getting caught and molestorized by afformention perverts. - Spaz/

- Well, not to pick on only one critic, but this game would require one to have motorized transportation. That means 16 yrs old minimum, in the US at least, or a driver at least that old. How''s a pre-vert gonna catch you while you''re driving around in your car, anyway? And since you''re in immediate contact with, and your position is known to the server and the other players, it''s not like you''ve got no way to ask anyone for help if you get a flat tire or something.
- And the transportation requirement pretty effectively filters out real -young- children from playing, , , , , and the procession of the program makes using cheats fairly difficult, since the radar data and stats are all generated on the server and then sent out to the players, who only get the data they''re supposed to have, when they''re supposed to have it. Since players will occasionally spot each other IRL, cheating by sending totally false GPS coordinates to the server isn''t likely to work for long. What were those two complaints about online games? Never meeting people and cheating?
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- Ah well, maybe you''re all right. It does sound silly, I mean, who would do all that for fun? Okay, I''ve got another idea: it''ll be a game where you are a knight, and you have different kinds of points for different stuff, like health and attack and experience. There''s villages and towns and even castles to conquer and explore. You go around killing orks and goblins and dragons, using spells and swords and battle axes and maces and stuff. There''ll only be hot chicks, and they''ll all wear G-strings! And it''ll be online, so you can fight other people!! It''ll be totally cool!!!(.....zzzzzzzzzzzzz......)
- Lubb