Game Grenade: Robloxian Warfare

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Roblox, a popular online building game, has gone group crazy ever since the feature's invention in 2009.  Many groups have tens of thousands of members, and the largest, FEAR (First Encounter Assault Recon) has 124,496 people, and is currently the only group to have over 100 thousand of them.  Here is a link to their page: http://www.roblox.com/Groups/group.aspx?gid=72321
 

Because of the huge amount of popularity, and the room to expand, Roblox has come up with a brand new set of features to add on to their continues update of the Group System.  Please note that some of these are being developed, while some are still in the theoretical stage.  Roblox did not give details on which ideas are which.

For military groups such as FEAR, conquest will be brought in on a whole new level.  Robloxia will be taking on new life with an entire world on which groups will own land.  They will have an HQ and bases all around, and it seems that these places will be on an actual map instead of just random levels here and there.

The best part of this, though, is the bases will be contested.  Other groups will be able to raid their enemies and claim the bases as their own.

There would also be Ranked Matches.  This would be in the style of Roblox's new FPS, occurring in rounds and whatnot. Groups of similar skill would be matched up to each other in classic combat style.

That's only one of the features on Roblox's agenda.  They also plan to allow the selling of models officially, instead of using T-Shirts.  This would allow building groups to actually make money through their work and much easier than some do already.  

Lastly, there are a few smaller, yet important, updates, such as having your group symbol and rank hovering above your head, and adding scripting features like –getGroupRank() and setGroupRank().

If you'd like to see the original article, go here: http://blog.roblox.com/2012/07/the-future-of-groups-in-roblox/comment-page-2/#comment-102324

Sounds like group enthusiasts will have a lot on their hands!  I for one am very excited for all this, especially the conquest portion.  This will add new life to Roblox, and make it feel like an actual world instead of scattered levels that have nothing to do with each other.  I hope Roblox decides to implement all of these updates!

-Logic Box