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Okay... Well I don't quite know how many stacks we need. Maybe only one... I don't know, but I haven't been on too much recently. I'll make a detailed estimate when I manage to get back on.I'm up for helping with a rail project. There's a half stack of rails in the Bitterwell train station and I have a couple stacks. It would be cool to get a train going to your island and then branch off to an underwater Rapture thing.Alrighty, cuz when you've got a couple of stacks we can try out this rail thing. But we might need more gold. And a helluv'a'lotta wood.Out of interest, how much iron do you have, Jetex?I've not really even started mining. Just now I've made a trap door and plan on mining a hole until I won't be in danger of accidental drowning while mining.
Meh. I prefer You Give Love A Bad Name.Well we were halfway there, but now we're not. So it was relevant.
In.Oh, teat.
And Spaghetti, that's a .jpg. I don't think you can skip around through time on it.
That was my last copy, not the one I wanted. Hold on. Fixed it.
I'M IN!!!!!!! PLEASE!Your wish is my command.
Why not let the characters choose a starting skill, and then just hope they fit into suitable roles to fill a team? Then somehow select one (volunteering, randomisation) to be the officer, and if the mission fails then the officer is dropped for the next mission or something. If it succeeds, then the officer gets to fire on of the others. Ha. Actually that's kind of a spoiler for my own rtd, I was just typing to myself really.
Or even an officer is selected for each mission and then gets to choose a team based on the limited intelligence he has. So to speak.
I'd use a point based system to both encourage team-play and individual, working something like this: ) people would be knocked out until I'm left with fewer, maybe 6 or 4 to pursue something which my thinking hasn't got to yet.Alright, thanks for the feedback. I was imagining the ship to be Star Trek-esque, from the Romulan side of things. But this is just to give an idea of shape, and obviously it wouldn't have all the bells and whistles like hyperspace doo-hickeys and teleporting beams. Crews would still go down in pods.Here is the player list I was thinking of:Mmmm, never been fond of job slots like that. They tend to not work out very well anyway, since any mission that doesn't require X automatically causes X to be something else anyway (even if that something is scenery or dead weight), but I'm also not fond of the lack of customization and such involved.
Large Ship:
Pilot, Head Engineer, Security and 2 secondary pilots (to fly smaller craft such as fighters and bombers). There would also be NPCs to liven things up a tad.
Planet Squad:
This would be a team of 4, consisting of something like an Officer, Heavy Weapons, Medic and Engineer (of the computer, hacking variety).
As a quick summation, how does that sound? Also, if you need more information just ask, and I can make it up on the spot for you.
Other than that, I still don't have a good grasp of what this game would be like. Would the ships look like something out of Star Trek or Alien? Would we be fixing pumps or shooting rebels? Would the players have standard issue weapons or custom built psionic alien symbiote cannons? All you've really said is "it's in space" and "no jump gates yet."
Oh yeah, I forgot about the large spacecraft missions in TF2.Hey there y'all, I was just thinking of trying to start up another RTD, but thought I'd best run it by some people before I take the plunge.I'm sorry, but that just brings TF2 to mind. Speaking of which, has anyone ever had a TF2 RTD that lasted a while?
It'd be a futuristic space-based setting, when humans have begun to colonise the rest of the solar system. To give a vague idea of the time, colonisation has occurred all of the way to Pluto, but anything like jump gates haven't happened yet.
The game would work a bit like another game I saw, whereby some players are present on a larger ship, and others drop to planets to perform tasks. I've thought life might get boring for the people on the larger ship, so each episode would have an event taking place there too. Here is the player list I was thinking of:
Large Ship:
Pilot, Head Engineer, Security and 2 secondary pilots (to fly smaller craft such as fighters and bombers). There would also be NPCs to liven things up a tad.
Planet Squad:
This would be a team of 4, consisting of something like an Officer, Heavy Weapons, Medic and Engineer (of the computer, hacking variety).
As a quick summation, how does that sound? Also, if you need more information just ask, and I can make it up on the spot for you.
Alrighty, cuz when you've got a couple of stacks we can try out this rail thing. But we might need more gold. And a helluv'a'lotta wood.Out of interest, how much iron do you have, Jetex?I've not really even started mining. Just now I've made a trap door and plan on mining a hole until I won't be in danger of accidental drowning while mining.
