I had an idea

Not a very unique idea at that but one none the same, while is was walking home from work this evening.

It was for a game, a bit like BF2, and a lot not like it. yeah it would have tanks, apc's and other awesome toys, also have small infantry only maps up to massive planes, bombers and other cool stuff for massive raids on places, but it would be done right.

Maybe call it World War: North Vs South or something like that, where is was the Northern hemisphere vs the Southern hemisphere.

so north would be made up of.

North America
Canada
Russia
China
Japan
Europe ( all euro countries)
South east asia
and North Africa.

South would be

Southern Africa
Australia
New Zealand and south America.

Don't know all the countries in the SH, but they are the ones i do remember.

anyway, each main area would have 50-100 maps so North America would have 50 maps, and so would canada, Australia and New Zealand would probably have 25 each. and Southern Africa would have 50 and would Northern Africa. Europe would have around 5-10 per country as there are so many, russia would have 50, china 50ish you get the idea.

This would be a whole massive scale thing,. probably not achievable when you think about the big picture but that is fine, as they are only maps and can be added over a long time period.

What i was thinking was either make a new game engine or use an existing one. Existing is cheaper by far. then work on maybe 5 maps at first during the beta. once all the massive bugs are ironed out, and it is stable, release to public, beta stage or what ever.

so since its beta not everything has to be there. maybe get infantry working awesomely so 5 infantry maps from 5 different countries. once that is sorted, add some medium sized maps, with light amour, jeeps, and other cool toys, maybe small helicopters. vehicles would be beta 3ish, with another 5 maps for amour.

possibly adding for beta 4 or 5, heavy amour and planes, and possibly ships. could have released the game after beta 3. and added the awesome toys in patches.

Since to goal is large scale could have the community making maps so the devs dont have to.making them official and all. adding them to some sort of storyline.

Having different theaters of war would be cool. African Theater would include both north and south.

Although after reading all of that. bah North Vs South, nah just make it some random enemy, say genetically modified clones starwars style. saves on making too many individual characters. of course this would be online only, maybe have an advancement type thing like World war 2 online.

but World War 3 online, possibly. Persistent maps maybe, with a ticker at a spawn point which counts how many lives were lost in the current campaign, one on each side.

i do not have a clue how to do all this. but thats what i am, an idea's person,i come up with all these ideas that would be awesome to create but do not have to means to do so myself. and not just for computing either, real world stuff. like creating a paintball field in the likeness of your favourite game map, E.G. De_dust from Counter Strike. or something awesome from Desert Combat.

Would be awesome. but i dont have the time nor the money to be able to do anything like that. unless someone hires me as a random consultant guy, which will probably never happen. as my passion is fixing borked pc's

ah well another random post done with. more later.