EA did that didn't they? It was called Motor City Online, it failed miserably... so no, I don't think it will work.

LINKY EDIT: My linkhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_City_Online

TheCompBoy, youre more than welcome to join the team.

Please email me at dicomptech/at/iway/dot/na

N.B. that with this idea, players are basically gambling real money on their own performance, and you're handing out cash prizes. Depending on where in the world your players are, there's going to be quite a few laws that regulate how you can operate such a business.

Besides the game design and development work, you're also going to need to do a lot of legal and business research.

Having players wager their score or upgrade-points, etc would be a lot easier.

Besides the game design and development work, you're also going to need to do a lot of legal and business research.

You will also have to investigate ways of preventing cheats. Cheating/hacking is rife enough on multiplayer games that don't involve real money - if this game ever gets completed it would be a prime target for hackers.

As far as the idea itself is concerned, I think the information presented so far is far too vague to form much in the way of an opinion. From what you have told us, I think it is overambitious and riddled with technical and legal issues. I also don't think it is a suitable first project for a new team.

While we're on the subject of teams, I agree with Tom that this doesn't belong in the For Beginners forum, it's still feeling rather more like a Help Wanted post than a Game Design one. Please keep further posts relevant to the game's design - messages between potential team members should be carried out through PMs or email, and requests for team members should be made in the Help Wanted forum.

I've replied to your email

Personally, if you want me to work on this game, I believe that we should include TheCompBoy. However we need to decide on a language...

I'm a very experienced C++ programmer and started learning the basics of Java a few days ago...It seems that you're pretty much the opposite

I agree with Johnscapey 100%, but also I think that like in a certain Call of Duty game you could pick between different "levels" of wager (so like, 25 cents, $1, $10, etc) where you compete against others in the same wager level.

Sounds very good man!
I think we should do C++ even am not the best developer in C++ yet but i am very intrested in learning the language.


code58 I sent you an e-mail to the adress that you mention in this thread.

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I've replied to your email

Personally, if you want me to work on this game, I believe that we should include TheCompBoy. However we need to decide on a language...

Sounds very good man!
I think we should do C++ even am not the best developer in C++ yet but i am very intrested in learning the language.
code58 I sent you an e-mail to the adress that you mention in this thread.

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Guys, you were asked not to do team-building here in this forum. Please take the discussions about what you're going to do and who you're going to do it with offline, and only discuss game design here in this forum, or the thread is likely to get closed. Consider this the last request.

[size="1"]Hi Tom.

Firstly, its great to meet you, im a big fan.

[size="1"]I apologize for this thread, and I’m sure that we are all done here.

[size="1"]I will be more careful in my future posts.

[size="1"]Thank you Tom, you are one of the one people who gave me a good insight on game creation.

Firstly, its great to meet you, im a big fan.

[size="1"]I apologize for this thread, and I’m sure that we are all done here.

Thanks for the warm thoughts. Apology not necessary. Since you're done, I'll close this. You can always open a new one anytime.