while mulling over some really good ideas on another thread regarding set quests for military progression, a thought struck me.
We now have the telepresence mechanic in the game, which is currently used just for fun.
but there is a lot of potential right there to have some more story line driven set quests (repeatable) that the fans are obviously crying out for.
So the idea is that you use the telepresence mechanic to 'Beam over' commanders into a set story-line driven instance that may or may not have an effect on the overall BGS.
they are beamed into a ship that they either pilot or are part of a crew and must complete the set mission to gain the rewards. being killed or failing will result in the commander being teleported back into their ship, presumably docked at a military station (the only place to get these kinds of military quests). maybe different economies would give out different types of telepresence quests.
at the end of the quest a player will receive a summery screen pretty much exactly the same as the multicrew report.
these quests can reward players with rep, or military progression, or hard rewards like money or 'rare rewards'
these quests are repeatable. the quests given depend on the economy and current BGS state.
this means that newer players can experience life in bigger ships, and fans can have those story line driven set quests but life as a whole in the 'main' galaxy stays the same.
this is basically an extension of the training mission quests only given IN GAME.
and as a final though... you could even be 'beamed' onto a capital ship in higher ranked military quests and although you could never directly control the thing, you could easily be part of a crew on one, they have a multitude of ships which could maybe be on cooldown timers for their spawns so that a single capital ship could have many fighter pilots. capital ships also have MANY guns so the gunner roles could be split into sections (fore, aft, starboard etc)... this would make for a very interesting and fun instance. you could even have two capital ships facing off against each other, making for epic pvp battling.
We now have the telepresence mechanic in the game, which is currently used just for fun.
but there is a lot of potential right there to have some more story line driven set quests (repeatable) that the fans are obviously crying out for.
So the idea is that you use the telepresence mechanic to 'Beam over' commanders into a set story-line driven instance that may or may not have an effect on the overall BGS.
they are beamed into a ship that they either pilot or are part of a crew and must complete the set mission to gain the rewards. being killed or failing will result in the commander being teleported back into their ship, presumably docked at a military station (the only place to get these kinds of military quests). maybe different economies would give out different types of telepresence quests.
at the end of the quest a player will receive a summery screen pretty much exactly the same as the multicrew report.
these quests can reward players with rep, or military progression, or hard rewards like money or 'rare rewards'
these quests are repeatable. the quests given depend on the economy and current BGS state.
this means that newer players can experience life in bigger ships, and fans can have those story line driven set quests but life as a whole in the 'main' galaxy stays the same.
this is basically an extension of the training mission quests only given IN GAME.
and as a final though... you could even be 'beamed' onto a capital ship in higher ranked military quests and although you could never directly control the thing, you could easily be part of a crew on one, they have a multitude of ships which could maybe be on cooldown timers for their spawns so that a single capital ship could have many fighter pilots. capital ships also have MANY guns so the gunner roles could be split into sections (fore, aft, starboard etc)... this would make for a very interesting and fun instance. you could even have two capital ships facing off against each other, making for epic pvp battling.