Need scenario ideas

[Puke]

to add fuel to the empire raid idea (a great idea there) you might want to throw in some fleets of mothballed ships. in order to acquire them, you would have to either capture them with bording parties (never actually tried fighting against a mothball fleet, so i dont know how it works.. have to try it.. do they get shields?) or force the owner to surrender (neutral empire starting on one world somewhere).

you could make it trickier by putting the neutral empire off in one corner of the map, and stashing their mothball fleets in a nebula somewhere else. you would have to race around with a construction ship to unmothball them inorder to build up your numbers, and you would have to do it before your competition found them.

this could even be done in the same vein as the old Andromeda or Voyager scenarios that were written earlier. you start with one ship, and you start acquiring more as you progress. let conquest be the goal, but let the starting ship be sucky instead of mighty. sneak around capturing and refitting mothball ships untill you have enough remote miners to sustain an income, and enough warships to form a fleet.

[geoschmo]

Puke, Are you reading my mind? I was thinking exactly along those lines when the dead empire was suggested. I was thinking about leaving damaged ships laying around. But mothballed ones might be better because they wouldn't be a maintenance drain.

I'll have to work on that a little.

Geoschmo

[DirectorTsaarx]

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Originally posted by geoschmo:
Puke, Are you reading my mind? I was thinking exactly along those lines when the dead empire was suggested. I was thinking about leaving damaged ships laying around. But mothballed ones might be better because they wouldn't be a maintenance drain.

I'll have to work on that a little.

Geoschmo

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Better yet - do both! Mothball some heavily damaged ships, so they have to be unmothballed and then repaired.

[Puke]

for that to work, you would have to have the technology to build them in the first place. you can only repair components that you have researched. if you just mothball them, they can be ships of any technology level.

[DirectorTsaarx]

Can you analyze damaged ships & get tech advances from the damaged components? If you can, then with a big enough fleet of mothballed ships, you could analyze some ships to get the tech, then repair the rest.

Or maybe you should just be forced to protect the mothballed fleet until you could research enough tech to repair it (providing a bit more interest to the scenario).

[geoschmo]

Nope, you can't analyze damaged components.

Btw, I will be posting my new sceario along these lines later today. Hope it's a good one. It was fun setting it up.

Geoschmo

[Yorlum]

Hey! I've seen that scenario! It was called "Barbarian Wars" in the old Nexus Magazine for Starfire Empires. It is an excellent game, using a 'closed' Warp Point to section off the "Dead Sector" of the Empire from the "Live" one. and now that you've brought up the idea, does anybody know if it is possible to create "closed" Warp Points, which are not immediately detectable?

Your defensive strategy can go up in smoke when you see the Bugs pouring into your Main Construction yards that you thought were safe...