Novus Aeterno (latin for “New time of beginning”) is going to be a space MMORTS which will be set up one one server similar to eve online.
The game will have two parts, the game itself and a ship creator so that no one player has the same ships with each ship design have a specific use like stealth and heavy hitting with a lack of defense.
Looks like a very small developer, which most gamers enthusiastically support by natural inclination, so I hope they can eventually deliver a playable game.
Meanwhile, don’t forget to sign up for free to play End of Nations, the MMORTS from a big evil corporation. And uh, most have a love/hate relationship with developer Petroglyph, who previously made (infamously made) SEGA’s Universe at War and Lucas Art’s Star Wars: Empire at War. Good games but with a ingredient of Suck that prevented them from becoming great.
The MMORTS doesn’t really exist yet because conceptually the RTS, in existing form, cannot scale to massively multiplayer. Offer a galaxy without borders and a just few veteran RTS players will quickly dominate it. So no one is quite sure what a successful design for a massive RTS would be like. Everyone is brimming with ideas. It’s very much about conceiving of the most ingenious mousetrap. And, true enough, most game innovation of late is coming from indie developers.
Maybe 2012 is the year of the MMORTS at long last. I hope so. Aren’t we all tired of 1v1, 2v2, and FFA?
Eve online looked like an interesting Game, besides there arent many MMORTS out there.
Hey Thprime, I am the founder of Taitale the studio making novus aeterno i wanted to just give you a bit more info, first of all the game is completely playable it was as of 6 months ago when we where lucky enough to be chosen to demo it at PAX Prime.
Yes we are a very small team who is working on this game but we have managed already to get it to closed beta and have been working on it for 4 years so we have a good track record of completing what we set out to do.
And again true there is no real “mmorts” games out there any more (with the closing of BP) but i recommend you actually go and read up about our game and watch the gameplay vids to get a better understanding of how we actually are a fully seamless and persistent mmorts on one massive map for thousands of players.
Im not here trying to bash EoN there booth right next to us at pax, yes ok maybe i shook my fist at them a few times xD but still my point is give us a chance before you start crushing what little word of mouth we have so far. Especially if the other game you are talking about even you said you have not liked the developers past work, this is why its hard for new studios like us who actually have made a game, because people would rather spread the word about a game from a big studio that they don’t even like the past work of instead of listen about a new game and studio.
Thank you for reading,
sorry about my English not my native tong.