Elite Civilizations

[NeilRoy]

I want to take over a system with a group of like minded individuals. Create an empire and have others share the vision.
And have others try to stop me. and fight them. Be rewarded fairly and recognised by my peers.
It's kind of built into my DNa. I blame evolution.
We need a way to influence a system and construct things... Space stations. Hubs... Mega defence weapons...
Elite civilisations.
I do hope power play evolves into that. Viscount Commander Neil Jameson acting steward of Alfa fornicus has assembled a fleet of pirates currently building an obliteratron capable of destroying an entire space station.
Rumour has it they've mined a rare radioactive isotope of tantalum and have combined that with an alien artefact found in the Crab Nebula unlocking a new power source. 250 million credits down and the construction is 75% complete.
They must be stopped.
Haha I'm a long way off with my poxy little viper... But with a bunch of other commanders, and a bit of sociological empathy (sympathy) from FD it may just work....

 

[Herik]

I want to take over a system with a group of like minded individuals. Create an empire and have others share the vision.
And have others try to stop me. and fight them. Be rewarded fairly and recognised by my peers.
It's kind of built into my DNa. I blame evolution.
We need a way to influence a system and construct things... Space stations. Hubs... Mega defence weapons...
Elite civilisations.
I do hope power play evolves into that. Viscount Commander Neil Jameson acting steward of Alfa fornicus has assembled a fleet of pirates currently building an obliteratron capable of destroying an entire space station.
Rumour has it they've mined a rare radioactive isotope of tantalum and have combined that with an alien artefact found in the Crab Nebula unlocking a new power source. 250 million credits down and the construction is 75% complete.
They must be stopped.
Haha I'm a long way off with my poxy little viper... But with a bunch of other commanders, and a bit of sociological empathy (sympathy) from FD it may just work....

If you were to spread the stain of this Eve'ism over the (earlier) game, I know what you'd hear (and may have heard), from DB and I'd be right with them....

But now,...who knows what direction DB wants to take this game.....God, I hope there wont be 'player empires'!

My guess (and hope), he'll give you a little of the chest pumping power mongering, but then slap you down as you deserve.

 

[Roybe]

If you were to spread the stain of this Eve'ism over the (earlier) game, I know what you'd hear (and may have heard), from DB and I'd be right with them....

But now,...who knows what direction DB wants to take this game.....God, I hope there wont be 'player empires'!

My guess (and hope), he'll give you a little of the chest pumping power mongering, but then slap you down as you deserve.

Players will be able to work with the community to bring a power into being..at that point the Power becomes an NPC driven Power and the rest of the community decides its direction.

 

[Herik]

Players will be able to work with the community to bring a power into being..at that point the Power becomes an NPC driven Power and the rest of the community decides its direction.

Yes, this I know of; all pretty fuzzy,...will have to see how this plays out.

 

[NeilRoy]

Thanks for humouring my whims never played eve.
I guess there's 3 games I spent far too much of my time playing... Elite, total annihilation and age of empires. Each a buzz for different reasons. The combination of the best elmts from the three coupled with multiplayer would be awesome!!!
Oh yes, and we could do with some wormholes too.

 

[NeilRoy]

in any open system where people are given a free reign over resources and regions... Tribes form. Mankind is inherently tribal in nature.
It's happening in power play with wings and factions...
One of the evolutionary catalysts is innovation.
Elite provides no real framework for player/community innovation at the moment.
Still think it's awesome and massive props to the FD team for an incredible development effort!

 

[JeffRyan]

One of the things I like about Elite: Dangerous is that people who want to do this can...

By adopting a minor faction or Power and making it their own.

You get what you want, we work WITHIN the theme instead of imposing our own. So there's no Babylon 5 Empire or Empire of Man or We Are Stupid Alliance or whatever...

I think the compromise works.

 

[NeilRoy]

Don't disagree actually the acting viscount part was leaving it open to me being a major player within the Hudson network... Would be good to have a little more scope for innovation and builder / research type activities. So a group within the faction that has to have some exploring the galaxy for new resources, some grinding credits to pay for construction workers, some hotshot fighters to defend the base and a chorum of great minds to design the space station / hub / weapon.

Btw you look a bit like the guy from game of thrones!