Hi CMDRs,
the galaxy is in a sorry state. Crime is all over the place and bothering good pilots but the criminals are not getting anything either. I thought this problem could be solved with "grudge"!
Grudge. So when somebody shoots you, you get to hold grudge against him. This grudge could be worth the price of your rebuy. The ship computer can keep tab of all the grudges. The grudges could be sorted too depending on how much grudge you hold towards different CMDRs. If the same CMDR shot you down again, the grudge towards him would of course add up! This is important so you know who to go after first.
The hunt. Its important to get even because it feels good. Everybody knows that. When you have got your ship back from the insurance, the sneaky CMDR responsible could be anywhere already. But there's cameras everywhere too. The galactic information agencies could provide gossip about the whereabouts of the commanders who you hold grudge against. You can then hunt them down following the clues! It'll be fun to trace them to their space lairs, carriers or whatever dismal ruin they make their garage.
Vendetta. When you have found the CMDR that wronged you, you can try to destroy the same amount of his stuffs to get the grudge to zero. You know how its done CMDR: by opening fire and shooting him down really good. If he shot down your Anaconda first, better find him in an Anaconda too. It'd be silly if grudge went away by destroying his Sidewinder. So that just wont do. When the balance is kind of back to zero the Pilot's Federation can recognize the vendetta as finished and give some fancy reward.
No escape. Some CMDRs might be really clever and go take a nap and try to avoid the vendetta that way. Of course there is no escape in the galaxy since everybody must be somewhere all the time. If a commander goes to sleep, then his ship's computer should pilot the ship in his place. The computer would be just as clever as the CMDR (except that the computer doesn't need sleep or try the nap trick)! When the CMDR finally wakes up, he can be told how much he lost whlie sleeping. Or maybe he kept his assets but gathered more grudge if the computer did really well meanwhile.
Mercy! Since we're all civilized here, the offending CMDR could offer to pay back the grudge in credits so it doesn't need to come to violence or desperation. Or he could be asked to pay compensations. The two CMDRs could negotiate over a grudge solution system thingy how many credits should be moved from one jumpsuit pocket to another for the grudge to be settled. The rebuy price would be a nice starting point. Settled grudges shouldn't be given fancy rewards though since its too easy.
Engineers and grudge. Some engineers could turn out to be very sympathetic towards the underdog. A sympathetical engineer would only accept to work for you if you held a grudge towards at least 10 different CMDRs during the previous month. Then there could be these engineers that only respect powerful and dangerous CMDRs. They would only work for you if at least 10 different CMDRs held a grudge towards you during the previous month.
Grudging galactic powers. Since its really annoying that members of powers shoot CMDRs of other powers, part of the grudge would always be towards the power, if the CMDR belonged to one! Like, if murderous CMDR Gankmann's wing from Archon's Punks dares to shoot me to pieces, I will hold a grudge to everybody in his wing but to Archon as well. It makes so much sense since clearly he's not keeping his puppies in order. Also Arissa will be really upset at Archon. If this upsetness of a power gets big enough, other CMDRs may be allowed join The Hunt and be provided gossip by the galactic information agencies too to know where to look for justice. Maybe the powers eventually go to war to settle the score if nothing else pacifies them.
Stations. Its silly that stations and outposts can harbor dangerous criminals that others are righteously grudging towards. The stations should promptly send the offending CMDR to face a duel outside the salon erm station, or the station itself would gather some grudge by granting grudge targets "safe space". If the station had collected enough grudge, the offended power could consider raiding the station for pay back. Or the attacking faction could even take the station over, send the staff to prison camps, and sell its parts on the microwave cooling hose market. That'd teach them! The stations would immediately become more co-operative I think if their sheltering habits turned out risky!
Murder hobo factions. Since galaxy is really big and there's all kinds, it'd make sense some factions would become murder hobo factions. These factions would have lots of missions to massacre other CMDRs and give gorgeous rewards when enough scraps have been collected. Of course this would create some grudge too. It shouldn't be a big deal since if there's a lot of destruction it will just increase the Gross Galactic Production and weapons manufacturer profit too. Or so I heard from a friend who's in the Crom economics academy.
You might ask where would all the credits for the new galactic information offices and computer upgrades come from? Its not difficult. Lets scrap the silly ATR system altogether. It is very expensive to maintain and not much fun either. That'll free a lot of credits.
Phew, this is a lot of suggestions! What do you think CMDRs?
Bests,
CMDR C. FLOSS
Imperial Princess
the galaxy is in a sorry state. Crime is all over the place and bothering good pilots but the criminals are not getting anything either. I thought this problem could be solved with "grudge"!
Grudge. So when somebody shoots you, you get to hold grudge against him. This grudge could be worth the price of your rebuy. The ship computer can keep tab of all the grudges. The grudges could be sorted too depending on how much grudge you hold towards different CMDRs. If the same CMDR shot you down again, the grudge towards him would of course add up! This is important so you know who to go after first.
The hunt. Its important to get even because it feels good. Everybody knows that. When you have got your ship back from the insurance, the sneaky CMDR responsible could be anywhere already. But there's cameras everywhere too. The galactic information agencies could provide gossip about the whereabouts of the commanders who you hold grudge against. You can then hunt them down following the clues! It'll be fun to trace them to their space lairs, carriers or whatever dismal ruin they make their garage.
Vendetta. When you have found the CMDR that wronged you, you can try to destroy the same amount of his stuffs to get the grudge to zero. You know how its done CMDR: by opening fire and shooting him down really good. If he shot down your Anaconda first, better find him in an Anaconda too. It'd be silly if grudge went away by destroying his Sidewinder. So that just wont do. When the balance is kind of back to zero the Pilot's Federation can recognize the vendetta as finished and give some fancy reward.
No escape. Some CMDRs might be really clever and go take a nap and try to avoid the vendetta that way. Of course there is no escape in the galaxy since everybody must be somewhere all the time. If a commander goes to sleep, then his ship's computer should pilot the ship in his place. The computer would be just as clever as the CMDR (except that the computer doesn't need sleep or try the nap trick)! When the CMDR finally wakes up, he can be told how much he lost whlie sleeping. Or maybe he kept his assets but gathered more grudge if the computer did really well meanwhile.
Mercy! Since we're all civilized here, the offending CMDR could offer to pay back the grudge in credits so it doesn't need to come to violence or desperation. Or he could be asked to pay compensations. The two CMDRs could negotiate over a grudge solution system thingy how many credits should be moved from one jumpsuit pocket to another for the grudge to be settled. The rebuy price would be a nice starting point. Settled grudges shouldn't be given fancy rewards though since its too easy.
Engineers and grudge. Some engineers could turn out to be very sympathetic towards the underdog. A sympathetical engineer would only accept to work for you if you held a grudge towards at least 10 different CMDRs during the previous month. Then there could be these engineers that only respect powerful and dangerous CMDRs. They would only work for you if at least 10 different CMDRs held a grudge towards you during the previous month.
Grudging galactic powers. Since its really annoying that members of powers shoot CMDRs of other powers, part of the grudge would always be towards the power, if the CMDR belonged to one! Like, if murderous CMDR Gankmann's wing from Archon's Punks dares to shoot me to pieces, I will hold a grudge to everybody in his wing but to Archon as well. It makes so much sense since clearly he's not keeping his puppies in order. Also Arissa will be really upset at Archon. If this upsetness of a power gets big enough, other CMDRs may be allowed join The Hunt and be provided gossip by the galactic information agencies too to know where to look for justice. Maybe the powers eventually go to war to settle the score if nothing else pacifies them.
Stations. Its silly that stations and outposts can harbor dangerous criminals that others are righteously grudging towards. The stations should promptly send the offending CMDR to face a duel outside the salon erm station, or the station itself would gather some grudge by granting grudge targets "safe space". If the station had collected enough grudge, the offended power could consider raiding the station for pay back. Or the attacking faction could even take the station over, send the staff to prison camps, and sell its parts on the microwave cooling hose market. That'd teach them! The stations would immediately become more co-operative I think if their sheltering habits turned out risky!
Murder hobo factions. Since galaxy is really big and there's all kinds, it'd make sense some factions would become murder hobo factions. These factions would have lots of missions to massacre other CMDRs and give gorgeous rewards when enough scraps have been collected. Of course this would create some grudge too. It shouldn't be a big deal since if there's a lot of destruction it will just increase the Gross Galactic Production and weapons manufacturer profit too. Or so I heard from a friend who's in the Crom economics academy.
You might ask where would all the credits for the new galactic information offices and computer upgrades come from? Its not difficult. Lets scrap the silly ATR system altogether. It is very expensive to maintain and not much fun either. That'll free a lot of credits.
Phew, this is a lot of suggestions! What do you think CMDRs?
Bests,
CMDR C. FLOSS
Imperial Princess
