I would like to see some Trumbles back in the game! Were so funny and frustrating back in the day on my old C64 - crawling all over my screen whilst trying to target enemies and failing - and no clue how to get rid of them at the time! I think a series of community goals could be introduced starting with an outbreak at a starbase in which they are overrun with a population explosion of trumbles following delivery of an illegal shipment (could literally have them floating out of the space station as it bursts at the seams!) - cmdrs could be called upon to transport as many as possible to a particular star type or black hole to literally burn/suck their growing cargo holds free of pesky trumbles. Could be even more interesting if trumbles population in cargo holds increase dramatically with every jump and trumbles cause ship modules to malfunction when cargo at 100% and crawling all over ship requiring some strategic calculations/risks by cmdrs when deciding how many tons of trumbles to carry initially before they can reach suitable star types or black holes!
That first community goal could be followed up with famine outbreak at starbases after all food supplies eaten by all the trumbles and people starving - also demand for machinery components to repair damage to infrastructure.
Later community goals could have different trumble species outbreaks starting to make killing them increasingly more dangerous/difficult eg - 1st outbreak single species of red trumbles (kill by burning them at red star types maybe), 2nd outbreak two species say red and blue (need to visit red and blue star types), 3rd outbreak three species say red, blue and black (need to visit black hole maybe to hoover them off!) - each jump causing remaining trumbles to multiply, erratic module failures, and ultimately damage ships if trumble tonnage exceeds ship cargo capacity! (Oh and gotta have them crawling around the cockpit!!)
Only get rewards for tons of trumbles removed from starbases and successfully destroyed - maybe a trumble bobble-head would be cool!
Could tie increasing trumble outbreaks into a thargoid side story with thargoids genetically engineering new resistant breeds of trumbles in an attempt to infest all inhabited star systems to weaken our war efforts - a sort of biological furry warfare! Ooh maybe even corrosive trumbles! Yikes!
Alternatively - would be interesting to introduce a rare goods location at a distant starbase selling 1 ton exotic breed of trumbles which can infest every station that it is sold to on the black market (and then subsequently becomes available for sale again at that station via dodgy dealers/black market) to see how long it would take to infest the whole galaxy!
Anyone else wanna see some Trumble Trouble in the Elite galaxy? Any other ideas out there?
Lets get ready to Trumble!...
That first community goal could be followed up with famine outbreak at starbases after all food supplies eaten by all the trumbles and people starving - also demand for machinery components to repair damage to infrastructure.
Later community goals could have different trumble species outbreaks starting to make killing them increasingly more dangerous/difficult eg - 1st outbreak single species of red trumbles (kill by burning them at red star types maybe), 2nd outbreak two species say red and blue (need to visit red and blue star types), 3rd outbreak three species say red, blue and black (need to visit black hole maybe to hoover them off!) - each jump causing remaining trumbles to multiply, erratic module failures, and ultimately damage ships if trumble tonnage exceeds ship cargo capacity! (Oh and gotta have them crawling around the cockpit!!)
Only get rewards for tons of trumbles removed from starbases and successfully destroyed - maybe a trumble bobble-head would be cool!
Could tie increasing trumble outbreaks into a thargoid side story with thargoids genetically engineering new resistant breeds of trumbles in an attempt to infest all inhabited star systems to weaken our war efforts - a sort of biological furry warfare! Ooh maybe even corrosive trumbles! Yikes!
Alternatively - would be interesting to introduce a rare goods location at a distant starbase selling 1 ton exotic breed of trumbles which can infest every station that it is sold to on the black market (and then subsequently becomes available for sale again at that station via dodgy dealers/black market) to see how long it would take to infest the whole galaxy!
Anyone else wanna see some Trumble Trouble in the Elite galaxy? Any other ideas out there?
Lets get ready to Trumble!...
