The Star Wars Combine is a free
massively multiplayer online role-playing simulation game based on
the Star Wars Universe, developed by amateurs in their spare time.
This sentence summarises the concept behind this
project, and great care must be taken with each and every word.
The Star Wars Combine is an online game. Its purpose is to bring
fun to the players by offering them a universe that they may
immerse themselves in and forget, for a while, their real lives.
The Star Wars Combine is massive. Its purpose is to welcome and
gather thousands of players inside the same game, creating an
extremely rich gaming environment. The multitude of players
generates an unlimited quantity of interactions between them.
The Star Wars Combine is about role-playing. When playing the
Combine, the end-users are not only playing an avatar inside the
universe; but also they are investing a part of themselves into
what they would dream to be if they were living in the Star Wars
universe.
The Star Wars Combine is a simulation. A simulation is the
partial implementation of existing mechanisms, from physics to
economy, including politics, engineering, logic, and even
socialization.
The Combine is about Star Wars. The Combine is developed by Star
Wars fans, for Star Wars fans. The purpose is to provide a Star
Wars universe where fans may dream.
The Star Wars Combine is a free game. Free for the end-users,
free for the players, but this does not mean the Combine does not
have to face financial charges. There are costs associated to such
a project: financial costs as well as time investments.
Finally, the Combine is developed by amateurs during their spare
time. The entire project is only developed as side activity by some
Star Wars fans. This particularity will have to be taken into
consideration during the development phase.
The Combine is a free online massively role-playing simulation
game, based in the Star Wars universe, developed by amateurs in
their spare time. This sentence already generated a full page of
concepts. However there is more behind the Combine. Many other
concepts derive directly from what sounded like a simple sentence
at first.
(this text was taken from the Star Wars
Combine Strategic Overview)
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- Create Star Wars character, choose race, skills, background.
- Assign skill levels from 5 different areas.
- Join the Galactic Empire or the Rebel Alliance and enter the Galactic
Civil War, or pursue a career in the backdrop in more than
fifty other groups as a simple merchant, smuggler, pirate,
pilot ... the possibilities are endless!
- Have a chance to be Force sensitive and become a
soldier of the light or a lord of the dark!
- Buy and sell spaceships, space stations, vehicles, facilities,
items, and weapons with other living players.
- Explore a vast galaxy of over 4,000 life-filled planets
and visit the elegant cities of well-known localities like
Corellia, Tatooine, Naboo and more, using a unique real-time
movement system for ground travel, air travel, sublight and
hyperspace travel.
- Use the graphical interface to move across the planet,
moon, spaceship or space station you are currently on and watch as
your ship enters a planet's atmosphere.
- Prospect planets and mine their raw materials.
- Build your favourite ships, vehicles, space stations,
droids, items and weapons ... or recycle their wrecks into
new raw materials.
- Post on the classified ads offering your services for all to
see.
- Be a part of a vast community of over 4,800 members strong,
visiting the message centre, helping to shape the progress of the
Star Wars Combine with suggestions, role playing your character
with others in many unique scenarios, or visiting the chatrooms
for general chit-chat with other members.
- Personalize the Darkness Interface with a "skin" of your
choice!
- Get a free, web-based holo-mail address to talk to your fellow
combine members or anyone else on the internet.
- With many more upcoming features such as combat, research
and development and creatures!
- Play the game, no matter whether you're on a Windows,
Macintosh or Linux/Unix computer.
- For a full list of features, check below (implemented features
are printed bold).
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- create character
- choose skills
- upgrade skills as you advance in levels
- see amount of credits, CPs, HPs, XPs, etc you have
- graphical force meter
- edit your IC profile
- view your inventory
- view your Force skills (if Force sensitive)
- talk to other characters in real time
- fight hostile creatures
- get wounded/heal/kill
- send and receive credits
- buy ships from the galactic market
- create and use an IFF list for your friends/enemies
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- create a new faction
- join/leave a faction
- see the memberlist
- view the inventory
- manage the budget
- give privileges
- pay salaries
- expel members
- arrest members
- execute members
- buy/sell factions
- buy/sell stocks of a faction
- rename your faction
- change profile of your faction
- change the leader of your faction
- create and use an IFF list for your faction's
friends/enemies
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- get planetary maps
- move on a planet's surface
- build cities
- see tax level
- enter description for a planet
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- found cities
- enter description for a city
- get a city map
- construct streets and buildings
- prospect for raw materials
- mine raw materials
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- construct buildings
- enter description for a building
- buy/sell buildings
- enter buildings
- move inside of buildings
- store material inside a building
- lock/unlock buildings
- earn income with buildings
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- enter descriptions for a room
- see other people in the room
- lock/unlock a room
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buy/sell |
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pilot/drive/command |
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assign to commander/pilot |
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set control mode |
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rename |
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scan |
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hail |
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lock/unlock |
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edit passenger/crew list |
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board |
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dock/undock |
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view and remove docked |
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land on a planet |
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load cargo |
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enter description |
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move onboard |
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assign a custom picture |
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