Okay guys, I was thinking about alien encounters in this game and what would make for some cool gameplay. It probably wouldn't be Thargoids but some other species we encounter in the future. I know there are many, many holes in all of this and probably many more I haven't thought of.
So, how about this. You are hyperdicted by an alien ship, which knocks out your systems just as the Thargoids do. But this time your ship is taken on board. When you are released the alien ship leaves and you are alone in a completely alien place. Maybe it would be white with a black star field. Maybe the physics would be somehow different. Your HUD would be glitched out as it struggled to give you readings on what it's detecting around you.
To go even further into unrealistic stuff, you fly could around the system and encounter an alien structure that looks like a base. You are able to fly inside and dock. You can even interface with the services, but again everything is glitchy as your ship's systems try to interface with the alien technology. Maybe you manage, through trail and error, to outfit something to your ship, but it's not even clear what it does. Yet.
That's about as far as I got. One big problem is that it all gets quite fantastical and wouldn't fly with people who like to keep things reasonably realistic. Another problem is that as an experience it seems more suited to a single player game than the shared universe of ED.
Anyone else ever have out-there ideas for the game? Stuff that probably wouldn't work but is fun to think about?
So, how about this. You are hyperdicted by an alien ship, which knocks out your systems just as the Thargoids do. But this time your ship is taken on board. When you are released the alien ship leaves and you are alone in a completely alien place. Maybe it would be white with a black star field. Maybe the physics would be somehow different. Your HUD would be glitched out as it struggled to give you readings on what it's detecting around you.
To go even further into unrealistic stuff, you fly could around the system and encounter an alien structure that looks like a base. You are able to fly inside and dock. You can even interface with the services, but again everything is glitchy as your ship's systems try to interface with the alien technology. Maybe you manage, through trail and error, to outfit something to your ship, but it's not even clear what it does. Yet.
That's about as far as I got. One big problem is that it all gets quite fantastical and wouldn't fly with people who like to keep things reasonably realistic. Another problem is that as an experience it seems more suited to a single player game than the shared universe of ED.
Anyone else ever have out-there ideas for the game? Stuff that probably wouldn't work but is fun to think about?
