MMORTS

I'm a huge fan of online RTS games like Warcraft (fuck W.O.W., I'm talking old school Warcraft), Starcraft, and Age of Empires.

What I'd like to see is an option for multiplayer team play, where you have multiple players sharing control of the same civilization. For instance, in Starcraft, my brother would control most of the SCVs. He would handle building construction, resource gathering, and upgrade research. My buddy Rob would be in charge of base defense, with a few SCVs of his own to build defensive structures like missile turrets and bunkers and control of some of the unit production facilities, and I'd lead the offense, coordinating with my brother to ensure he's building the right production buildings for the units I need. Perhaps a 4th player could handle battlefield supply lines.

Of course, I'd add new complexities to the game to ensure everybody has plenty to do. Instead of harvesting 2 resources, I'd increase it to 5 or 6, as well as needing supply lines to deliver resources from the refineries and processing centers to the unit production buildings and delivering ammunition and fuel to the combat units in the field. Unit limits would have to go up, from 200 in Starcraft to 1,000 or more. Map sizes would have to go up, as well.

Of course a single player could still control an entire civilization single-handedly, or only split the work with one or two. The limit would probably be in the neighborhood of 5-6 people sharing control of a civilization.