Psychout wrote:Throw them out there guys, everything will be considered.
Give me six hours. I'll try and jog my memory while I'm at work.
Edit:
Six and a bit hours later...
Disclaimer 1: What follows is equal parts creativity, influence, boredom inspired insanity and wild ambition.
Disclaimer 2: Storylines, I can do. Tournaments, less so. I suck at organising stuff and don't have the time to arrange/plan the whole thing myself. If anyone likes these ideas enough to want to see it happen they'd need to be willing to help organise it.
Now for some meat, as it were.
Part I:
The Predacon warlord Magmatron has a plan that will ensure a total victory for the Predacons with a single keystroke. All he needs is a power source. At the same time, Megatron disappears. Seizing the opportunity, Starscream takes over the Decepticons and launches an assault directly at the Autobot capital Iacon. The city is quickly surrounded and cut off.
Optimus Prime, away from Iacon inspecting the Maximal front, leads reinforcments back to the Iacon but before they arrive someone triggers one of the mecha-forming systems dormant under Cybertron's surface. Autobot forces are scattered and Prime is MIA.
Leo Prime observes this disaster and takes an elite taskforce into the depths of Cybertron to investigate. Meanwhile, the Maximal forces strike at Predacon holdings to create a diversion for Leo Prime and his team.
This would be the longest part of a 3 part storyline. Each faction has a main goal (Seize/Defend Iacon, Hold/Take the Frontline) and a story related "sidequest" (Hunt for Megatron, Locate Prime, Capture the Power Source, Investigate the Depths). Idealy, each side quest puts the faction up against one of the other Generations sides, so if the main fight is Bot vs Cons, the Bot sidequest would go against the Preds/Maximals. Depending on who wins which advances the storyline in certain directions.
Part II would reveal the true goals and motivations of certain factions, while Part III would obviously deal with the various end games and such, while the storyline results in either a set up for the start of v2 or the destruction of Cybertron.