Would that technically be possible you think?
Obviously it would be done by an external website or something.
A storyline could go something like this:
- You finally got your pilots license and are eager to fly back to your family in their home system
- Where the cooperative is saving up to get their first FC.
- But after leaving the sandbox, you hear that their money is stolen
- They have been overthrown by a brutal dictatorship
- There's money on your head
Your mission
- Don't get caught, get around using low security and anarchy systems only.
- Find out what happened.
- Make money to replace the stolen money.
- Get your cooperative back in charge of your home system.
The question is not about the storyline, that's just an example.
The question is: is it technically possible to do that? And how?
I doubt any personal story lines like that fits in with the "blaze your own trail" theme FDev uses.
But there several places in the game that could use a story line... take Federation and Imperial ranks, these are today based purely on reputation from doing mission for them, so doing mission that gives extra reputation is then obviously better...
What if we instead had a story line, where you did something like you suggests here, go thre, do this, help out there, etc, and while you do this, you get told the story of Federation and Empire, and their sides of their conflicts in the pasts etc. You unlock system permits, why not let you use these new permits by having you visiting and doing things those newly unlocked systems...
This would stop player from blazing their own trial, they would learn lore and if you do both, Empire and Federation, you get to have some conflicting view of the same situation.
The other thing where this could be used, is all the Powerplay weapons and module. So you get to do some stuff, and get told the story how this powerplay item came to be, and why.. get the some nice story, and once completed, you have access to a new item.
And it is quite possible that the frameweork the used for the training missions could be used for this.
So you can still go on your own path and totally ignore all the power play items and Federation/Imperial ships, etc, if you like, and if you decide to go after any of those things, you could learn some interesting lore about things you try to get access to!
And leave the personal narrative of your pilot to be your own imagination, or simply ignore it if that is what suites your best, when you blaze your own path doing what you like.
