@ Coffee
Sorry about last night, my internet just gave up on me.
I read through the document you sent me and I really like the idea with the cloud. I'm assuming you have a plot thought out on how to explain where it originated from, and I hope you have the cloud be a central part and have it extend over the entire story. Most of it resonates with what I was thinking, which makes me wonder if you can read my mind?
I was thinking we could insert some cool sub plots here and there. Some ideas would be:
-Defeat the dragon (Dragonshy episode)
-Get rid of invading Parasprites
-Defend Appleloosa from that tribe
-Perhaps retrieve some important items from the Everfree forest?
-A stealth mission. Something along the lines of setting up a trap without the enemies knowing (Fluttershy solo mission)
I have two more things to note. The first you've probably already read in the DD - I'm aiming for a pretty dark atmosphere (not exactly grim dark, just dark).
The second thing is that for gameplay's sake I don't want to have all of the mane 6 together in any of the missions, except for the very end one where they defeat [insert villain here] and perhaps one other mission somewhere.
This is why I was wondering if it would be possible to have everpony captured at the very beginning (except for Twilight), and then have most of the game revolve around saving the mane 6 in order to use the Elements of Harmony. After they're all saved, we would have to come up with excuses to not use some in the missions leading up to the final battle.
I was also hoping to have a solo mission for every pony.
The ability ideas you have are almost exactly the same as mine. I'll write the ones I have down and send you a link so you can see what I thought about.
Cheers!
TheComet