Station Adventures

[Druner]

So, i have played Sunless Skies, and i’ve become very infatuated with the little text-based adventures you get in that game.

Considering this, what you guys and galls think about having something like this when we are doing some smugling in elite.

Dock at station and you get some narrative with still images (same as the station greeting npcs) and then some choises with diferent outcomes for you to consider.

 

[Sapyx]

I agree that smuggling could be made a little more adventurous. Back in the old FE2/FFe games, smugglers needed to go hunting for a black market on the bulletin board. Some of the black markets were fake, fronts set up by the local cops to try to catch smugglers buying and selling illegal goods. To find a reliable black market you needed to become real familiar with your local bulletin board, to be able to pick the fake black markets (which only lasted a week) from the genuine ones (which were permanent). Which then gave a reason for players to make themselves "smuggler bases" they were familiar with rather than become drifters wandering about the galaxy, finding black markets who are shouting out their existence on the system map.

Of course, if FD implemented such a mechanism, in today's internet age, within a week people would have posted on the forums a list of where the black markets were and how to find them, so the end result probably wouldn't be very different. But it might make criminals feel like they're actually undertaking criminal activity, rather than strolling into their local "Narcotics 'R' Us" store.

 

[Nasc]

Sounds dangerously like a story to me.
I always thought of Elite as a choose your own adventure book where someone burned the pages and stuffed you in a locker for liking stories.
Then that girl you like sees you and spaghetti starts falling out of your pockets.
What are we talking about again?

 

[Druner]

Of course, if FD implemented such a mechanism, in today's internet age, within a week people would have posted on the forums a list of where the black markets were and how to find them, so the end result probably wouldn't be very different. But it might make criminals feel like they're actually undertaking criminal activity, rather than strolling into their local "Narcotics 'R' Us" store.

This is so very true, haha.