EVE Technology Lab

What if, a program could be written, using a copy of the new EvE 3D map... and be used as a tabletop strategy ROLL20 game board?

In essence, you take the new 3D map API, and in REAL TIME, you track the players of your corporation through space... and when you are at war with another corporation, ONE NEW WAY of conducting said warfare... instead of simply slapping a fleet together, flying out to somewhere in their territory and hoping you don't get spanked... this would be an RTS map where each Corp/Alliance leader ROLLS their virtual dice using a Roll20 account, and "moves" their game tokens on the map in ROLL 20... and when they move those game tokens... the players who ARE the game tokens in their ships, would MOVE THEMSELVES to the designated "next square" of the Roll20 gameboard!

Think the board game RISK... but with EVE ONLINE and DUST514, and soon to be Valkyrie, players as your infantry, cannons, and cavalry pieces. Essentially, all the players in a fleet would BE the game tokens. They would each have a free Roll20 account and would be monitoring the game board in Roll20 on one screen and flying around in a specific location that their FC commanded them to be in as per the dice roll of the two head FC's conducting the war between them would be commanding!

You could have a gameboard spanning the galaxy of EVE and it would be a lot like the game BATTLESHIP as well... in that you would NOT be able to see where your opponent's players/tokens/pieces are in the ROLL20 map, until you physically found them in the EVE Online/DUST514/Valkyrie actual game. Then they would be reported in the ROLL20 map via an email or TeamSpeak or whatever communications system your fleet uses, to report the location of the enemy... where the FC would then place an icon on THEIR map for them and all the members of their fleet they allowed to see, to see it and have a designator as to where the enemy lay!

It would be like being in a giant US Combat command post with a 3d map of the galaxy that is updated in real time by the API key's as it now, but would allow the PLAYERS to place their OWN personal icons in specific spots n the map and would allow for a DICE ROLL/Tabletop style of conducting a corp-corp or alliance-alliance war in Eve to allow a neat way of fighting a war instead of hit and miss maybe we will maybe we won't kind of thing...

In fact, instead of Roll 20, make the new 3D map do this and add a dice roller in the EVE online UI that can be used by anyone and then both fleets simply agree to use this as the way they fight their war.

What do you think? Table Top Fleet combat anyone?