I would have liked to see a first person perspective from the ships, so you could feel like you were actually flying one while you watch the battles.

Even better, you could take control of one of the ships yourself and fight in the match.

Saibashi, I agree. That would be fun.

This is a great idea, imo.

I think your going to get a warm welcome to the community in a bit. In the mean time read the now locked post I foolishly made. Entitled: real time combat?

LOL. Oh god look its turn based strategy, there are heated arguments over tactical combat so FPS isn't going to float well. But no one will really think this is a serious idea just look at the game. Have fun welcome to the community but I have to say this is going to get you noticed .

have a Sovereign Fate.

Well my opinion is don't change the game that drastically I would rather a Rts option which I am totally against, but this is actually pointless here they will never turn Galactic civilizations into a first person shooter. This idea won't be so heated because its not going to happen. 

But if someone were going to tell me that Stardock wont do a spinoff of one of there games I wouldn't believe them. It would be easier to run an Rpg spinoff with more customization which is possible because they have some laying around or they do buy games. Otherwise you could spend the work to make another game like you suggested.

Is star control Stardock.

One thing I don't like about borderlands 2 is the sights are to dim can't see them into the snow. As a spinoff not the game that is just silly the idea of turning Galactic civilizations into Startrek sounds interesting. I'm using Startrek because of my limited knowledge of most games there may be better examples. If you people actually suggested spinoffs you would have a better reception. Stardock does seem to be big on spinoffs. We have talked to death about leaving Galactic civilizations as the game it was made to be though. I wouldn't buy this without a demo to look at.

What pit did you climb out of? Your like the dark side of someone's mind. And your out of yours. I am going to speak to you in the language that you understand. THIS IS A TERRIBLE IDEA!!!!! tactical combat was a debate. But this is INSANE! FPS and RTS do not mix Joe. It would be like the flu making you well, it doesn't and won't work.

I would agree that a serious rework would be involved either way. It would probably be better to start from scratch and make a new game. I did not mean to combine Rts and Fps. I was comparing both ideas as a radical rework of the game. Actually they would have to start from scratch. It is probably easier to convert Elemental because it is an Rpg and turn it into something like Skyrim. Either way they would have to build or buy a new game engine. Only some of the concepts could be transferred. If I was going to say that this is more of a rewrite than converting the game to a Rts I would say yes. They are more likely to create a Rts like they did in Sins of a solar empire as a spinoff.

Thanks, sakalava47.  To be honest, I see this as a fan project, not a commercial enterprise; it would just be a quick fun thing to do, not something that I would expect would succeed in the current gaming market.  (And in this vein, I'd like to try to come up with other FPS ideas as fan projects... sabotaging a Deep Child, maybe, with the amount of lava in the levels increasing as time passes and the vessel prepares for deployment, so that some ways to get back to a part of the map become "walled off"?  Some kind of supernatural thriller as the Orz, or some alien that inhabits their dimension, leaks into Androsynth settlements as a result of their experimentation with IDF?  Maybe an RTS could be made out of leading a slave revolt on a Druuge colony.)

Now that Stardock owns Star Control, I don't even know whether trying to do this would get some hapless fan a C&D order.

I play FPS alot but I think star dock could add other elements to the plot to make it fun like:

your character being some one like a commander in the ground/space battles and when your fighting your CO gets killed and you are now in control over the fleets...general. We could move our forces around the map and engage the enemy, take over planets and gain soldiers.(if there morale is high) That would be a ok game a RTS FPS. If done correctly there could be strategy and positioning and not the "DARCA was killed by" like the inevitable death in FPS I have happen to me.( I am a sold 10/1 kdr so i don't die that often fyi)

Not to mention the Syreen...

Honestly I can't see how the customization of Galactic civilizations would be able to work on a first person shooter except the ship. They don't have the ground like you would need harder if customized. None of the abilities, personalities, parties, or mega events. Lets not forget anomoly and planetary artifact abilities wouldn't apply. If taken out there wouldn't be much customization. If applied wouldn't affect you. This is just the start of the rewrite that has none thing to do with the game endgame. The scale is probably to large.  At least the campaigns give you an idea of story though it would have to be broken up into many parts, and of course you would have a lot smaller parts. They would have to write this game from scratch.

The tech research would be to big to be significant unless you had a scientists option. Who for the most part would be trying to get grants instead of other departments. Not all his tech ideas would go through, and most likely he would be stuck into one tree unless the government canceled his contracts. A ship designer could also be there where his design would compete against other designs between how good it was, price, and application to mission. Freighters, colonists, military, explorer.

This game would be more like Galaxies or Freelancer. If I would have to guess if you wan't customization modifying a role playing game would at least have more applicable customizing. Or here is a novelty Stardock buy Freelancer bring it back and make it more like Galactic civilizations with a new engine for 64 bit.

The problem isn't the ideas it is you are trying to take a game and give it roles it is not applicable for. The morale is very little of this is applicable for first person shooter. I think the first person shooter games that were designed for first person shooter games would be better.

Better start with mod and show/check concept. ArmA is pretty moddable, even if not that suited for "visceral close combat".