Make the possibility of alien contact be really painful

[aRJay]

If it were an alien event it should have concequences for unprovoked attacks by the fool hardy or over confident.

Like say a clear save, then it would really be a force to be reckoned with and not taken lightly.

The mechanic could be something like a data virus removing all traces of you from the weak human infrastructure.

Then you end up in a starter system in a side with the Base line credits....

Too nasty.

How about if the encounter goes wrong there is a flashy effect and you find yourself in
suggestion 1 , a loaned (no resale value but does have a rebuy price) Sidewinder docked in a random station that doesn't have one of your ships in, your previous ship is reported as being stored at a military station elsewhere
Suggestion 2, an unidentifiable strange sounding craft that seems to be roughly equivalent to a Hauler there is a message saying that your empty ship was found and is being towed away for investigation.

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54 did you think I was about 12?

Watched both BSG along with heaps of other sci-fi and read loads of sci-fi recently the ark royal series humanities first encounter with aliens as they expand in the galaxy and currently the empire corps series the collapse of an earth centred empire.

Ive worked in flight simulation for the last 30 odd years, so the simulation side of ED is what interests me more than the fun gamey options.

Just to give you all an idea of who is behind this daft topic - yes I'd like the game to be less easy but I realise a lot of folks would disagree and wonder what people would like to see of the alien menace if it is that.

I would like this thing today not to be the big alien menace but something unexpected.

 

[EdzUp]

So it's another get gud post?

To be honest if they jump in playing the Birdie song that would be painful enough lol. They would have to be toast though

 

[TargetLost]

Sorry. First contact already happend and I believe I messed up.
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There was an encoded tansmission USS thread lvl 5. So I was wondering what this could be. In there there was nothing than just a Little metallic looking perfect sphere with a perfect mirror surface reflecting the unvierse. You should have seen that. Odly thought it did not reflect my ship.
It honk me several times as it expected an answer from ym ship or something. Since I had no idea what it was up to I simple waited.
Then it started beeping in morse Code which I translated:
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"We want to eat you, cheese!" [alien][mad]
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Later I figured out it was probabily "We want to meet you in peace."[smile][heart] complete with a smile and a heart. But you know my morse Code Knowledge was a bit rosty and in the heat of the Encounter.
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So alll of a sudden there was this strange looking froggshape spaceship which turned on some rainbow outside lighting and prodcued a voice like Sound "Friend Ship Drive! Friend Ship Drive!"
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That was obvious a provocation! Everyone knows it is "Frame Shift drive"
So I opened fire.
But within seconds my ship was disabled and I had lost that battle.
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They then teleported me into an unknown space where I was shown to their leader.
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The communication was difficult. All I could translate was something about a curse and kiss. It simple made no sense.
I was expected to do something but what?
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Then they brought me into a closed room and questioned me.
There was an aperature in the room positionend in my back with a long stick like Thing. Who knows what this was for but they obviously threatened me.
I later figured out that it was meant as gift to take home .. but oh well
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They wanted to know who the rulers are and so I told them it's a overripe , a Bacon rind and a wanna be oncle sam.
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So they wanted to know how we fight our conflicts and when I told them that we ship tons of propaganda material, toys and Magazine and the one that ships most wins the battle they couldn't believe me and thought I rediculi them.
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When I assured it is true they seemed to interprete that as a weekness.
They were suddently smiling even laughing hysterically and yelling something like "we will change that" and released me.
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I was teleported back to where I enetered the USS.
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I am not sure but I have the slight Feeling I messed up the first contact somehow.
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Ah whatever what is the worst that can happen!?
Worst case they ship tons of their frogg propaganda into our universe. So we will ship even more into theirs !!

 

[Eloy]

54 did you think I was about 12?

Watched both BSG along with heaps of other sci-fi and read loads of sci-fi recently the ark royal series humanities first encounter with aliens as they expand in the galaxy and currently the empire corps series the collapse of an earth centred empire.

Ive worked in flight simulation for the last 30 odd years, so the simulation side of ED is what interests me more than the fun gamey options.

Just to give you all an idea of who is behind this daft topic - yes I'd like the game to be less easy but I realise a lot of folks would disagree and wonder what people would like to see of the alien menace if it is that.

Tbh yes I wouldn't expect such a radical thought from an older person since well, you know how long it can take to make progress in ED. And then all crushed in a minute?
As I said before, ingame devastation yes, player devastation no You would drive players out of the game en masse.

Sorry chap, I tend to be a bit hotblooded and negative at times (don't like it either)

 

[Noogillim]

So it's another get gud post?

To be honest if they jump in playing the Birdie song that would be painful enough lol. They would have to be toast though

Hardly

More like erring on the side of caution rather than going in all guns blazing because you think you are the best players in the game.

It's about possible concequences - which are obviously down to FD rather than us to set the limits, but I just wondered what others would think and what ideas they have.

I am the last person to tell others to get gud , try surviving the bubble in open in an unarmed dbx it's quite an achievement when you do (I also know the loss of months of data from the black) yes I play in open and am aware of the risks but it's the risk that adds to the gameplay.

 

[Demascus]

The "alien fever" sure seems to bring out the crazies.

 

[Dathayn]

Op....most ridiculous thing i've seen here....good laugh tho