So today I am listening to the Gamers With Jobs Podcast today and they mention a (ancient) MMO called Horizons where a bunch of guildies wouldn't kill anything but just collect items. And then the guy talking mentions it's like flower picking in a game.
Which I thought could be pretty neat idea for a game, flower collecting. More specifically, Orchids.
Orchid hunting is something that drives people wild even today.
A game about finding, and bringing back to civilization, a flower.
The player is an Ambassador for an intergalactic empire to an UN like body.
You wield no real power, all you have is to try and influence other ambassadors and your own politicians/legislative bodies.
You have certain amount of latitude with your governments foreign policies, the abilitiy to draww up treaties for trade, war, properties rights.
Help your empire/nation expand, conquer the universe, or to strengthen the UN, destroy it.
Idea for a game, You are a soldier in an army. Give a ton of back story and propaganda of how your nation has been persecuted and attacked and that after many years of this we(the nation) had to finally defend it’s self violently. Make the “We are Just” the real theme of this part of the game and that our freely elected president will lead us to victory!
As a soldier you progress put into key positions and rise through the ranks.
Keep the propaganda up.
keep giving increasingly more and more access to information and to people higher up the ranks as you progress.
Similar to the game of pure influence, you are the president/chairman/whatever and you only issue orders. you are not allowed any micro management. You issue the goals and the ai people under you perform the actions.