Games for Commanders!

[Cross]

So I had an amusing thought. What sort of games could one arrange for bored Commanders in their ships?

Grab the Cargo: Get a group of players, the ref has a hold full of valuable goodies. All the players wait at a certain distance, the ref abandons one canister, waits for it to settle, then declares game on. Everyone has to scramble to scoop the cargo; no weapons allowed! Obviously if someone gets the cargo, they get to keep it.

Miiiiight have to divide the league up into weight classes...

 

[Geraldine]

I am not 100% on the status of gravity in ships while in space at least. But, if there isn't any, zero gee opens up a whole range of possibilities for high jinks like racing around the cargo bay (better with one of the bigger ships) with, wait for it, fire extinguishers!

 

[fw190a8]

Brilliant idea. Get everyone docked in a corolis. Ref dumps 20t of cargo randomly far away from the station ( to avoid the fine). Everyone has to undock, grab, then dock and sell!

 

[medwyn]

Even a "canister-ball" match could be organized somehow - it's easy to kick it around. We just need to get the same paintwork on the same-team ships The goal could be the to kick the canister to the letterbox.

 

[Cross]

Even a "canister-ball" match could be organized somehow - it's easy to kick it around. We just need to get the same paintwork on the same-team ships The goal could be the to kick the canister to the letterbox.

I dunno if the canister would survive! They're kinda fragile. Though I guess that's part of the challenge!

 

[WO-One]

Brilliant idea +1 rep for you.

Merry Christmas

 

[starjump]

Hitting a canister too hard (even not really hard) will blow it up. Even though a funny idea, it wont be easy to execute as im forseeing a lot of exploding cannisters.

 

[Cross]

Hitting a canister too hard (even not really hard) will blow it up. Even though a funny idea, it wont be easy to execute as im forseeing a lot of exploding cannisters.

That's just part of the challenge!

I wonder what else bored Commanders could do...? I dunno, some kind of gate race through a planet's ring?

 

[WO-One]

Relay race between 2 stations, One as the start, race to the second, drop a canister, your partner has to pick it up and race back to the start/finish station.

Or several stations or even systems...

Might have to wait for wings on this, commanders are a bit thin on the ground at the moment in each server.

 

[Britannkic]

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Relay race between 2 stations, One as the start, race to the second, drop a canister, your partner has to pick it up and race back to the start/finish station.

Or several stations or even systems...

Might have to wait for wings on this, commanders are a bit thin on the ground at the moment in each server.

Do this in an asteroid belt

 

[Kalearne]

Do mining chips have the same fragility as canisters?

Also thought you could have an interception game. one pilot fires a seeker at another pilot and other have to intercept.