Replies: 5 comments 2 replies
-
Another idea would be to have true tournaments. It should be possible to generate something like
Some Ideas:
|
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
Is anything ever going to happen at Totoran? Or will the hints about the arena at Totoran changed to direct people to Morrigan instead? Even if we assume that Dvaered are insane muscleheads, the notion that they pulverize each other in large numbers along with expensive ships on a regular basis for entertainment seems hard to sustain on a demographic and economic basis. It's also not a good tool for |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
How about if it's a simulation, but almost everybody (especially the Dvaered participants) think it's real? All the participants have to wear special spacesuits, ostensibly so that the action can be holvised for the benefit of the spectators, and to have a chance to resscure the loosers. When a participant dons the suit, they get drugged and wired up to the simulation machine. When a pilot still has their (simulated) ship at the end of combat, the (simulated) jump out of the coliseum system is used to give their real ship the proper post-batle status and install them in the spacesuit there. Otherwise, the survivor gets picked up in a simulated rescue vessel, and on jump-out of the system is when they get placed into a real rescue vessel, while their original real ship gets sold off (if insurance is in place, they just sell it to the insurance company - if it is even a separate entity). Some of the worse-off loosers (live human bodies) get sold off for experiments/parts to the Za'lek and Soromid to pay for the simulation engine and to further boost profit margins, while at the same time giving the proper level of danger for Dvaered enjoyment - of course the narrative is that the've been burnt to a crisp and/or lost in space. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
Another advantage of simulation and half-simulation is that you can have things that are too strong for the game balance to exist in general; you can have them compete in a separate category, or with handicaps (e.g. outnumbered). (You can always have weaker stuff, and have them compete in some sort of featherweight class; the Llama and the starting outfits show how that works fine in the game, it's just not competitive so you have to use better gear in dangerous areas.) Soromid bioships are grown, but how about breeding them? If you can improve them like livestock has been improved from the early neolithicum, it's be a game-breaker if they'd compete in the world at large, but if they are contained in the simulation and run in a separate category, there should be no problem with that. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
Yes, I have a working version in main. You have to enable it with I do think it would be nice for Soromid bioships to have something like the EV mechanic in pokemon. That is, you have a fixed amount of total points and as you do certain things you increase specific attributes. So you could jump a lot to increase engines, or do lots of damage to increase DPS, or take lots of damage to increase armour. However, breeding does seem to be a bit out of the scope of the game. Furthermore, I'm not sure we need that much complexity and mechanics for the bioships. However, this is more suited for a different discussion :) |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
OK, given that rebalance is being done, and I want a sort of place where to test this sort of stuff more in-detail. I think it would be cool to implement the arena/coliseum concept that appears in some EV plugins. We already have something similar with the "dvaered championship" missions, but I think it could be made much more reliable and interesting.
Concept
A dead-end system in Dvaered space with the arena. It is basically a smallish system with a single jump point and station. The station would sell some basic combat outfit/ships, but not really be special compared to other systems. At the station there would be a series of repeatable missions where you can gain fame and credits or whatever. These missions basically revolve over different forms of combat.
Brainstorming
Current Status
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
All reactions