Spacers!

[wd208728]

Hello, I love this game, but there are some ideas I had... still newish so please tell me if I haven't encountered anything.

1. Deep space repair and upgrade fleets.
HUGE space docks that drift among the stars that you can trade with for upgrades and repairs but accepts ONLY raw materials and not credits for work.

2. Sabotage spaceport .
Nuke the planet from orbit under orders, closes spaceport. Failure means that you still nuked the space port, but didn't get away without being ID'ed so that faction is super pissed at you. As your ship is captured "That is simply not done by civilized people" *cycles the airlock*

3. Investigation missions relating to events on a port.

"As I'm sure you are aware there was a recent shortage of chemicals on X we suspect it was Y sabotaging the spaceport at Z. Perform surveillance Y and pick up the trail"

Then you lead your crew on a merry little jaunt around the galaxy looking for saboteurs.

3. A Gamble option in every spice den.
What do you mean my spice smoking, heartless pirate captain can't gamble away his ill gotten gains in a spice hall after blowing the crap out of a ship for sheer enjoyment??

4.Q-ships and the like. Ships that look like merchant ships but are really warships... used to eat pirates as a military captain.

5. Covert raid.
Merc raiding on storehouses of goods or ships for profit. requires expenditure of capital, exposes the crew to danger, but unlike harvest allows you to choose what you are stealing.

6. Hijacking
you take x crew, y weapons and electronics and attempt to jack a ship in dock. SUPER PISSES off faction stolen from.

7. Buy new Identity
Cash in everything but 25% and be given a small ship, starting over with -5 rep with all factions since something about your story "just doesn't make sense"

8. Impress
Just like enslave but happens in port. There are x sailors in willing to join up with you and y total. Used to happen all the time in the man o war days, I mean if you pull a gun and say "Deck hand or Fertilizer" I think some would choose deck hand.

9. Buy on credit with syndicates
For a share of the treasure they extend you a credit line as a privateer. miss a payment and they repossess your ship and put you in debt prison.... or the ground.

10. Raise morale
If in deep space your morale is low, discipline them by spacing a few crew members or decimating them.... I mean in the literal sense, decimate them.

11. After high enough reputation officers come to YOU.


Yay?

Nay?

hashed over before??

[wd208728]

piffle....

[Cory Trese]

Some great ideas in here -- I stuck several of them into my list.

#4 - that's high stealth and non-armament ship modifications, but I'm not familiar with Q-Ships. ST RPG's ship mythology is pretty baked so I'm not sure about this.

#3 - We talked about this internally for several days and decided that (from a business standpoint) if we are going to develop an engaging and entertaining gambling game we'd be better off using that time to either (a) improve the core ST RPG experience or (B) be excited enough about it to build a standalone edition for the market.

#7 - doesn't really fit the social system and culture of ST, but it is an idea we're playing with in CK

#3 - this is in the works on several levels, I like where you're going with it

#11 - the player will always be in control of his or her fate. the captain will be a nomad seeking fame and fortune among the stars. none will know where he travels nor when he lands, for he is the master of his own fate. The Captain calls the Officer, not the other way around. Just how 'tis. Now, I can see some future officers that have rep minimums for recruiting.

#8 - intimidation and several other factors (security, reputation, rumors, morale, recent activities, STR, etc) factor in to the Recruit button. In some stardocks the system is very much one of impressing sailors. However, unlike the sailing ships of old, these conscripts are probably going to be operating in a void suit and flipping steampunk switches on a void engine. you at least want ones with steady hands (from spice or brains) and some skill on the steel web.

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[jeffepp]

Q ships were used by the British during WW2. They were armored and armed like a destroyer or cruiser, but made to look like a tramp steamer. When a U-boat would attack, the guns would pop out of the deck or from under a stack of "crates", and blow them away. Keep in mind, the U-boats normally would attack a merchie with there deck gun, saving there torps for convoy targets.

[wd208728]

Now I'd love to see repossession fleets working for the Syndics, I mean if they are really out for a buck then they would love to jack ships that were behind on their payments. For some reason buy here pay here car lots come to mind...

One thing I really noticed was that there was no medical supplies trading. Medical equipment and expendables were always grabbed by pirates of old, but of course they were doing things like treating the clap which I hope has been eliminated in ST, flavor text of "That last entertainer handed the crew a nasty rash" just doesn't seem to work for me

Well, if you are pursuing the idea of missions being affected by port statuses, why not have missions that affect port statuses and let the player be able to sometime play merry hell with a particular faction.... I hate House Thulun, pretentious monkey jackers...

I have a huge number of Ideas for missions that could be fun with twists and all have basis in reality or are believable and could easily be strung together to fit faction actions. here is a sampling I came up with. I've just provided a little flavor text so you can get my drift, and possible triggers and rewards yatta yatta, just read

1.Hostage situation:
At the right place in the wrong time, an attempted assassination against the prince has come to a stand off because of you and your officers intervention in the palace, what do you do?
Fight for the Prince,
Leave,
Loot,

2.Intelligence kidnapping:
Because of intelligence captured, we know that a trusted member of X's Court will be on a ship at Y grid space. Capture the ship, kill the crew and make it look like Z did it.

3.Prison Break:
There are many members of the court held in cryogenic prison, parole them.

4.Double cross:
The prince sees you personally and thinks that his majordomo is becoming too involved in his business to be trusted, eliminate him.

5.Bonus time:
As i'm sure you are aware it is almost time to distribute yearly profits for the board of directors in the Syndicate, eliminate X, Y, Z and I'll give you a full share.

6.False intelligence:
Impersonate an officer of X and deliver this message.

7.Sabotage Stardock:
Dump this programming into their cargo loaders and cause a massive accident.

8.Sabotage spice den:
The gathering mercenaries are annoying the prince, take this poisoned spice and drop it all over X port.

9.Fill an order.
We need X of Y bring it here.

[Cory Trese]

I've been working on #2 and #9 for several weeks now. Great ideas in this list!

[wd208728]

Thank you,

I also noticed that disease has apparently been eliminated. I'll bet that is probably the case on rich worlds and on starships, but I bet there are still sick people in poor placed

1.Extraction
We have agents working on X, and believe they may have been compromised, they may have data vital to our cause.

2.Evidence Removal:
There is some incriminating evidence we wish destroyed.

3.Plant evidence:
We require a patsy...no, not YOU of course.

4. Emerging Markets:
One of our competitors in the manufacture of X has come under scrutiny we wish to destroy their reputation. Black mail Y until he capitulates.

ok too tired.... sleepy time.

-A