You know, in this hypothetical scenario, you're being pretty selfish. Nigh infinite money and you want to spend it on the development of a game, not to fund research for the cure to cancer or to solve world hunger or stop the eventual demise of Earth and the human race. son i am disappoint

pfft, that's cancer, this is CORTEX COMMAND! This is much cooler. l2internets

You guys are not thinking advencedly. Think of curing cancer with Cortex Command.

oh my crap, we could transplant peoples brains into jars, and have them do CC in real life!!!!!!!OMGWTF!

We can just have their brains be canned, and tada, you don't have to worry about cancer anymore! Unless it was brain cancer. That might be a problem.

we can make people with brain cancer the ones we control via telepathic brain in a jar! Cortex Command: Solving the worlds cancer problem, one post at a time.

Let data solve world hunger and win the nobel prize.

THEN he can make online multiplayer.

nah, he would need at LEAST 2 nobel prizes for that kind of feat.

Then I steal their food and Data does it again!

Brilliant! They are all slated to die within 5 minutes of touching down onto the planet anyway, so why not make something useful out of them! I call the Steven Hawking brain.

Just think of more then 2 people multiplayer...

oh my god CTF Facing worlds 2v2.
or 1v1v1v1
or cooperative missions

Those are all already possible. Clumsy to actually do, because of lack of keyboard real estate, but still possible.

I meant over a multiplayer network. Not 4 people on one computer.

I thought of an idea that would make Online CC lagless. First, there would be a Parent player (host) and a Child player (guest). The Parent computer does ALL of the physics calculations, and sends the Child screen to the Child. All the Child computer does is view its screen and sends control inputs without doing any physics calculations at all.

That is already sort of possible with windows remote desktop or some other alternative through a personal network.
The problem is massive bandwidth usage due to sending the screen, therefore unless you have a pretty nifty upload(read 10mb or more) it would still lag like crap.