contract ideas

[kuzkula]

;D

Okay, here we go.

1. Fetch missions.
I know, I know, some people don't like bringing 50 units of crystals from A to B, but that's what the reject offer button is for. Trying to play the game as an explorer/merchant/smuggler is hard and you almost always have to resort to bounty hunting missions to get by.

2. SOB! (Save Our Bacon!)
Missions which require you to pick up/rescue a faction's heroic (or maybe unlucky) captain stranded in an escape pod somewhere. You can either require a free slot in your crew section, which would raise your Rep with that faction for being so hospitable to the poor guy, or keep him in his escape pod in a free space of your cargo- giving default reward. You could make warring factions hire out contracts to have you pick up their enemy's captain as well. Perhaps make a slider to hire/dismiss crew members!

3. Armageddon! Oh crap!
Set up a moderately small set of meteors in deep space for harvesting (mostly metals/water/chemicals? Maybe even make a new item type: rare metals! Only found on meteors, of course). Exploring would be pointless for obvious reasons, but there could be contract-generated meteors that are headed for split urban/wild areas (or just wilds because they're a faction's nature preserve or some hippy stuff like that) that your ship would either need to land/destroy at risk to your crew/ship due to obvious reasons, or maybe treat it in the battle menus. (Ie torpedo, advance and gun...)

These are just some. I got loads more. Lemme know what you think!

[taatuu25]

1.thats shortage in mission form... No.
2.brop. Good. But carrying THE WHOLE ESCAPE SHITTLE!? That would neet alot of space.
3.well,nice. If in combat mode,enemy factions(or narvidians)
could have installed guns in the surface of the asteroid

[kuzkula]

Jun 18, 2011 10:03:15 GMT -5 taatuu25 said:

1.thats shortage in mission form... No.
2.brop. Good. But carrying THE WHOLE ESCAPE SHITTLE!? That would neet alot of space.
3.well,nice. If in combat mode,enemy factions(or narvidians)
could have installed guns in the surface of the asteroid

1. Like I said. that's what the reject button is for. Or maybe place it in a different area.
2. Its an escape pod for the captain and the captain only. It can't be that big.
3. Good idea.

[Cory Trese]

I'm working on #1 in the form of a "We need a cache of supplies created on the remove planet of X. Since we're building a garden, we need 200 plants."

I'm also working on #2 in the form of an "Officer Mission." Due to the opaque system used for Crew, we don't display / use a lot of Crew-level requirements in ST:RPG missions. However, officers are a great way to carry bonus / penalty packages.

Faction Prince or whatever -- many options here that the passenger could attract attention, cause trouble on the ship, etc.

Great ideas I love hearing mission concepts on the forum! keep 'em coming

[kuzkula]

There's a game for the PC I think you should try, cory. It is the same thing as what you've got going on here, hence why I'm so attached. I'm working on working in getting my old rig running so I could tell you the name.

[Cory Trese]

Sweet ... if it is an old school space traders I may have played it and if I haven't, I'll probably love it.

[kuzkula]

Its called Smugglers. Its by a gentleman named Neils Bauer.

[captain nemo]

Cory I like your contract ideas, they sound like fun.

kuzkula I looked at Smugglers, it looks like an interesting game for the pc.

Thanks !!

[Cory Trese]

Yah I like that game, Smugglers 4 shares lot of the same roots with ST:RPG =)

[HateSolstice]

I think another mission type that could work an "invasion" style contract. There can be two sides to this one: offense or deffense.

Obviously, in the offensive type, you engage in all-out war on specified targets. I don't know how complex the mission system is or can get, but perhaps even a string of several attack locations succeeding one another could work. In other words, "We want you to go blast those damned Rychart from galaxy! Attack the palace on planet A, then when you're done we need you to go blow up this starport on planet B, then after a few victory drinks and perhaps brunch, we need planet C resurfaced!"

For defensive types, it'd be a similar setup. Only difference here is you probably wouldn't have to go to more than 1 location, maybe 2 or 3.

Records could be used to bolster success rates within these missions, treating them as spy information about the other side's plan of attack. I also feel that these sorts of missions would require a slightly more experienced captain and crew. I don't know if military rank would necessarily be needed to access them though, beyond just being able to gain contracts from the outposts.

I have no idea if something like this could work, but if it's possible then that'd be very cool indeed.

[celu]

I have one, simmilar to capture mission, but a rescue mission. Maybe boarding action have better success. So just change the mission description to use our imagination. Also maybe time window shorter than bounty and -2 rep if failed but pays really high and earns double rep. Since the person being rescued will have to be very significant.