With the Chapter 4 beta now not far off, what are everyone's hopes and exceptations for Squadrons and related content?
Personally I am looking forward to it and expect that it will improve the game greatly. When I have spoken to a few friends that have stopped playing Elite over the last 4 years before, lack of support for organisations in the game was one of the top reasons, so hopefully squadrons could bring a few back.
My biggest hope though is that Squadrons can be integrated with existing or have option to automatically establish a new minor faction in the background sim as that will open up some very interesting gameplay possibilities (and for existing player minor factions their owners can claim ownership of them if they prove they created it and the squadron name is the same, Frontier have everyone's email addresses on record that have ever created a PMF so should be easy to do via email verification).
If squadrons and PMF were integrated imagine if you could then see info on other players in the game you see in space showing their standing with your PMF and with rival MF in system, would help determine if that neutral who you have seen hanging around the station in your system lately is working for or against you!
What if every station owned by the PMF not only gave a discounts on equipment, refueling etc to all member of the squadron linked to it but also provided an income to the squadron in taxes raised from every market sale, refueling, refitting, rearming etc actions from all players who dock at it?
What if some of that income could then be used to automatically pay your squadron members a wage based on their activity in working towards the goals the squadron leader has set?
And what if the rest of the income could then go in to a squadron fund to go towards purchasing capital ships for squadron, or for upgrades to or new stations in positions chosen by the squadron in any system controlled by their PMF?
If another PMF linked to a squadron expands to your system and goes to war with your squadrons PMF, how about the war automatically expands to the squadrons, who can then engage each others members freely in open without getting a bounty or police intervention? (with an option for both sides to concede defeat early if they are losing and have had enough and want to end it).
Speaking of wars how about allowing two opposing squadrons the option to choose to go to war anytime if they feel like it if it is consented to by both sides, with victory conditions for both?
The possibilities are endless... I think if just the above was to happen that would revolutionize the game, but I guess we will just have to wait to see what the devs have got in store for us [smile]
Personally I am looking forward to it and expect that it will improve the game greatly. When I have spoken to a few friends that have stopped playing Elite over the last 4 years before, lack of support for organisations in the game was one of the top reasons, so hopefully squadrons could bring a few back.
My biggest hope though is that Squadrons can be integrated with existing or have option to automatically establish a new minor faction in the background sim as that will open up some very interesting gameplay possibilities (and for existing player minor factions their owners can claim ownership of them if they prove they created it and the squadron name is the same, Frontier have everyone's email addresses on record that have ever created a PMF so should be easy to do via email verification).
If squadrons and PMF were integrated imagine if you could then see info on other players in the game you see in space showing their standing with your PMF and with rival MF in system, would help determine if that neutral who you have seen hanging around the station in your system lately is working for or against you!
What if every station owned by the PMF not only gave a discounts on equipment, refueling etc to all member of the squadron linked to it but also provided an income to the squadron in taxes raised from every market sale, refueling, refitting, rearming etc actions from all players who dock at it?
What if some of that income could then be used to automatically pay your squadron members a wage based on their activity in working towards the goals the squadron leader has set?
And what if the rest of the income could then go in to a squadron fund to go towards purchasing capital ships for squadron, or for upgrades to or new stations in positions chosen by the squadron in any system controlled by their PMF?
If another PMF linked to a squadron expands to your system and goes to war with your squadrons PMF, how about the war automatically expands to the squadrons, who can then engage each others members freely in open without getting a bounty or police intervention? (with an option for both sides to concede defeat early if they are losing and have had enough and want to end it).
Speaking of wars how about allowing two opposing squadrons the option to choose to go to war anytime if they feel like it if it is consented to by both sides, with victory conditions for both?
The possibilities are endless... I think if just the above was to happen that would revolutionize the game, but I guess we will just have to wait to see what the devs have got in store for us [smile]
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