= could be an amazing game. I know games like the War Z are sort of playing around with the concept, but I'd like to see a bigger budget studio try this out. What I'm talking about is semi-persistent worlds with win or lose conditions, fast character progression balanced out by huge death penalties or perma-death. An example could be aliens invading planet Earth, and over a period of 4 real-time weeks players have to fend off their attacks, investigate crashed or landed UFOs, invade their bases, and find a way to eliminate the alien menace before they unleash a devastating weapon that would leave the planet in ruins. You'd level and gear up fighting off the aliens in cities across the world, then form parties and launch attacks against UFOs or form raids to invade alien bases while trying to gain information about the alien and gear up for an attack against their headquarters. Players could craft gear themselves out of alien alloys and dynamically effect the server by investing resources in research trees to unlock new vendors, skill trainers, or craftsman (engineers/scientists) that others on their server could make use of. I think it has potential. What do you think Flood?