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Contents 1 Move again 2 Mech Crusaders 3 Sole Survivor 4 Shattered Galaxy in External Links? 5 Battle For Middle Earth 2 6 Rewrite required 7 ASSAULT 3.0 MUD 8 {{to do}} 9 MMORTS Titles

[edit] Move again

I agreed that the location of MMORTS was a bad location for this stub. But words in an article title shouldn't all be capitalized unless it is a proper name (such as George Washington). So I moved it to the appropriately named location. See also the similar discussion on MMORPG. —Frecklefoot 16:57, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)

It's a name of a category, no one refers to an MMORTS as "massive multiplayer online real-time strategy", everyone uses "Massive Multiplayer Online Reak-Time Strategy". The same thing happens with Arecibo Observatory and Massive Multiplayer Online Game. --Maio 20:14, Mar 11, 2004 (UTC)

See my comments on the talk page for MMORPG. This article move should stand and the other should be moved. —Frecklefoot 21:18, Mar 11, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Mech Crusaders

My apologies for including Mech Crusaders game under the heading of MMORTS - however, I am a little confused as to why it should be edited out - can someone enlighten me? Mech Crusaders is a real time Strategy game, and it is massively mulitplayer too... only its medium is a browser window rather than its own executable. Can it not still be included? Kouros 18:08, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I haven't played it yet, but I couldn't see how a browser game could be a Real-time strategy game. Looking at the definition again, such browser games are indeed Real-time strategy games, like pretty much every other browser game in which you get ressources and can build armies etc., therefore all of these games should be mentioned here, or none of them. I'd vote vor the latter one, and list games like Mech Crusaders here. I'm unsure of my actions now tho, because technically spoken, you're right. I just think people never thought of browser games when they invented the term "Massively multiplayer online real-time strategy". --Conti|✉ 18:50, Aug 29, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks, ContiE. Admittedly, I had the same thought - sometimes these new definitions are given too freely, and, if I may be blunt, someone really needs to give a firm statement that X is really part of Y family or whatever.

If I had to choose, I would suggest that browser games would not be given their own subcategory, but should be placed within the genre that the actual game is placed, and not its medium. Kouros 19:16, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Sole Survivor

Although I cannot remember it very much, infact I never owned it as it didn't get a European release, but didn't Command and Conquer Sole Survivor allow a lot of players at once? Yeah you controlled one unit and all, but it's still a real-time strategy in a MMO setting. - Ferretgames 15:28, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Shattered Galaxy in External Links?

Uh... Shouldn't Shattered Galaxy be included in the external links section? Or is that not needed since it's mentioned in the second paragraph..

[edit] Battle For Middle Earth 2

Wouldn't this game fall under this category?

   No BFME2 is just an RTS game, not MMORTS.

[edit] Rewrite required

Apart from the opening paragraph, this article is just a mess of adverts and random facts about random games. I don't know enough about the genre to rewrite it heavily, but we should be shaping this into at least a coherent history of the MMORTS - how the genre began, what developments its made and what the most notable examples of it are at the moment. --McGeddon 12:08, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] ASSAULT 3.0 MUD

This was the first RTS DikuMUD. It's code was never publically released. 70.5.234.118 06:18, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] {{to do}}

Can we please fill in the to do list (I predict it will be very long)--Exarion 00:11, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] MMORTS Titles

I need help gathering popular released and anticipated announced titles for more examples of content in the genre. Will also try to clean up the article as a whole.ITZKooPA 19:43, 6 March 2007 (UTC)