The well of ideas has been flowing, albeit not quite the same ideas that I had before.
The strange ideas of last week are still around though; that has morphed into a system for MMORPGs that removes a level cap. Yes; that sounds horrible (e-penises galore), but I think the system would promote starting characters fresh every-so-often as well as keeping one forever.
With that idea out of the way, I tried to think of a story that could be told.
While I came up with a nice sci-fi theme, it wouldn't go well in MMORPG form, so I'm thinking of it as a FPS.
The story starts off about 1000 years in the future. Society has gone down the drain, but humanity is still around.
The energy crisis has been solved; death is almost completely overcome ("nothing stopping you standing in front of a truck") and space travel to other stars (in one lifetime) is a reality. A very slow reality.
Much like long-haul trains of the 19th century and intercontinental flights of the 20th/21st, cryo-stasis sleeper ships are the preferred to travel long distance.
So, our protagonist (you) are on one of these, heading to some (TBD; HD 85512 b looks promising) star; ETA: 1,000 years.
On the ship, everyone is put into stasis for the duration of the "cruise" (I imagine you'd want to be awake at take-off and landing), including you. Except every-so-often you (yes, you; the protagonist is, as always, special) woken to fight some monsters or fix the engines (or something).
The catch is, the environment (the ship), and the person waking you, is almost always different.
In a less-far fetched idea, instead of a star you're heading for Jupiter (or one of its moons), but the only story idea for the ending I have is getting flung out of the airlock.
Anyway, it's not like I'm creating games right now...
