This is my first post but the reason why I joined was to suggest the exact same thing. Now I have already begun to redesign the classic 8 ships and as I have knowledge with 3DMax and Zbrush, it shant be to hard for this to happen. My plan was to keep the same style game play but redo everything from the game engine all the way to the ship design and graphical effects. One of the reasons why there aren't many people playing is graphically the game needs an upgrade. I will gladly lend my talents as an artist to this developement process. ======== On that note I plan a sum of no less then 20 different ship selections available. The original 8 redesigned and others such as larger vessels. Multiple modes of gameplay and a possible story line for a campaign co-op mode or offline play as well. Of course the game like the original should be easy to mod as so classic servers such as my fav Trenchwars could be made available in the new game. Those who create servers need to have the same freedom they did on the original. GFX/SFX need to be remade and the addition of new weapons from laser type weapons etc. I may try and also buy the rights to a cheap 3d engine that can easily be moddified to what we want. The last thing we need to do is possibly make it so different ship views such as a top/behind perspective can be added w/o changing gameplay. Essentially what I am saying is keep the classic gameplay and scrap the rest. The game needs to also be an open source project this way the users can also ensure it's success and help out as well not just the dev team. ======== I will probably create a new thread soon as I have already started to redesign the 8 classic ships. The 8 ships will be the same basic ships but with a new look and in true 3D. I plan on having 10 human ships and 10 alien ships. I will also post the basic story board I am working on as well for the single player/ multiplayer co-op modes. This game is good I play it all the time but let's face it the game is OLD. It needs more pazazz and a complete redesign and it is truly the only way to keep the game alive for another 10 years. With dwindling numbers and lack of support I feel the classic game is not long for this world.
