Yes I am talking about space gates and please, before you are telling me "this doesn't fit into ED". Read, Ima adress that problem.
So ED has a sandbox feature, right? We have 400 billion star systems and >0.00001% of them are populated. So we rather have a sand desert instead of a nice box what we call a playground. Sandbox - Desert. Hm. Dimensions. Small - INSANE HUGE.
I have asked myself what we could do in this desert. Well. Nothing. We can spectate how some wind blows some sand here and there but we can not really build on it. So this desert is more like a rock desert.
Why would you like to explore a whole desert without any kind of infuelnce?
Maybe you like to just look at he beautiful nature but I have come across some thoughts ...
Gates. The well known space gates which teleport you thousands of light years away to another world. But Space gates do not really fit in ED, right? Depends. If you have a pre-built galaxy, yes, gates do not fit. But think about them as community goals. And maybe, if PP is mature enough to take part, powers will give missions as well.
First, Data has to be gathered. This is obviously possible through exploring. Upon finding a bunch of good systems (earth like planets in many systems in a short distance for example), a community goal can be created to build a star gate which shoots you and others into the discovered area. After that, no return. Players (and NPCs) have to colonize planets to extract minerals and survive. Also possible through mining (this would make mining way more lucrative as prices in these regions will boom strongly).
The goal is to build another gate in this area to be able to return back to the first gate (and so be connected to the rest of the galaxy).
In addition, we can adjust this mechanic for example through wormwholes. E.g. a stargate can only be built with a persistent wormwhole connection.
Another thing would be that groups of players can build up a system by themselves (claim a system, name it, ofcoruse they have to pay some credits). They can build their own stations and get some income from them but that goes to far into my fantasy.
Still, community goals that will build gates to populate the huge desert we have.
Whatcha think? Does it fit into ED?
So ED has a sandbox feature, right? We have 400 billion star systems and >0.00001% of them are populated. So we rather have a sand desert instead of a nice box what we call a playground. Sandbox - Desert. Hm. Dimensions. Small - INSANE HUGE.
I have asked myself what we could do in this desert. Well. Nothing. We can spectate how some wind blows some sand here and there but we can not really build on it. So this desert is more like a rock desert.
Why would you like to explore a whole desert without any kind of infuelnce?
Maybe you like to just look at he beautiful nature but I have come across some thoughts ...
Gates. The well known space gates which teleport you thousands of light years away to another world. But Space gates do not really fit in ED, right? Depends. If you have a pre-built galaxy, yes, gates do not fit. But think about them as community goals. And maybe, if PP is mature enough to take part, powers will give missions as well.
First, Data has to be gathered. This is obviously possible through exploring. Upon finding a bunch of good systems (earth like planets in many systems in a short distance for example), a community goal can be created to build a star gate which shoots you and others into the discovered area. After that, no return. Players (and NPCs) have to colonize planets to extract minerals and survive. Also possible through mining (this would make mining way more lucrative as prices in these regions will boom strongly).
The goal is to build another gate in this area to be able to return back to the first gate (and so be connected to the rest of the galaxy).
In addition, we can adjust this mechanic for example through wormwholes. E.g. a stargate can only be built with a persistent wormwhole connection.
Another thing would be that groups of players can build up a system by themselves (claim a system, name it, ofcoruse they have to pay some credits). They can build their own stations and get some income from them but that goes to far into my fantasy.
Still, community goals that will build gates to populate the huge desert we have.
Whatcha think? Does it fit into ED?
