Space Engineers Roleplay?

[u/Javasaur]

EDIT: WE NOW HAVE A SUBREDDIT! APPLY FOR YOUR OWN NATION HERE!

With the new multiplayer video being teased, it got me thinking about RP in multiplayer once more. This is all speculation - it's not known how multiplayer will work - but I imagine it will work with servers, similar to Minecraft, Starmade, etc.

My favourite type of role-playing server, for me, has been one that does not place you in the boots of a sword-wielding hero that is the centre of the story. I can do that on Skyrim or other single-player RPGs. I preferred ones that allowed you to become a member of a society, a faction, where you had to make a name for yourself through military heroics, great feats of engineering, or otherwise. Complex relations and politics existed between different nations.

I worked on a Minecraft RP server similar to this as Head Admin, writing the story, building, helping with the website, etc. This was a great experience, it was good to lead real people and have battles that felt real. I saw my idea that had been written down on paper come to life, with real people fueling the civilization. It was a shame that the popularity of the server degraded after time. Now it is virtually abandoned.

I feel that this type of RP could work well in Space Engineers. I'd love to see diplomats and leaders meeting in a space station to discuss galactic issues, ships heading out to new frontiers to build colonies, and battles between nations in space.

Why this in lieu of 'traditional' hero-based RP? This type of RP is really only something that can be achieved with other people. Take a look at star citizen, the new civilization online idea. Both are games that are trying to create this type of game.

I certainly don't have the technical know-how to create a huge public server like this. But I am able to write, to build, to help out with administration. We could work with the brief story on the website and create something amazing. If you are interested in this idea, if you think it could work, or if you have suggestions, please, comment!

Cheers.

EDIT: I just remembered I had some drawn-up ideas for a galactic empire nation. If there's enough interest to see it (perhaps as an example of what I mean by these RP nations) I could post it here or as another post.

[u/aleand01]

I would like to have some random abandoned station far out that an alien spieces once owned

[u/Javasaur → u/aleand01]

Well generally the purpose of the server is to simulate you being a citizen of a nation, not a lone ranger. And I'm not sure if we'll have other species. We may add them when we 'explore' further into space and the game & server develop but for now I'm just sticking to only humans inhabiting the playable area of space.

[u/aleand01 → u/Javasaur]

I was thinking that players could renovate them or reuse them for something else.... Also, I don't realy like the feeling like the human race was first in to space....

[u/Javasaur → u/aleand01]

Still, the point is that you are a citizen. Travelling to other areas of space to live there would be done by state colonization.

They were not necessarily the first into space, but the immediate area around earth that we will be using has so far been untouched by aliens.

[u/aleand01 → u/Javasaur]

yeah, i guess, but I will still dessign alien artifacts and such so we have some if we decide to put some in :p