Space Ships and Space Combat

[Soul-Blade]

Hello. I've discussed this with Stefan a while ago, and I wanted to see what the public opinion is on this.

The concept is simply this: Rather then selecting a world, you use spaceships to travel to each world where you would then go into the player mode and play like normal. But when traveling, it is like a free for all adventure space battle deal. It is essentially what I did on Shifting Ages when I released for a shot amount of time (see attatched screenshot). The graphics would be new and improved, and most of all it would have zero lag.

This would allow for a more unique game and attract more players. For the players that do not like flying around in a spaceship fighting in space battles and prefer the current Zone configuration, some special warpers could be added in each area allowing you to instantly teleport to another world for a fee or something like that.

The concept behind acquiring a ship is the same behind getting new items. You need to raise enough money to buy a ship. Once you have a ship, there will be space tasks you can perform to get more money that way, or you could simply continue the regular Zone and get more that way. There would be multiple ships you could purchase, weapons, and other upgrades you would be able to apply.

There are a great deal of possibilities with this. Such as being able to board another persons ship and try and steal things from them. Or creating guilds of ships and having massive wars. Could even create ships that require more then one person to operate.

I feel this idea really does match the theme of Zone, and would expand the game a great deal. Tell me what you think about it, and if you think this would be a negative to Zone, or if you would enjoy it. Also feel free to add to the pool of ideas.