Supernovae - Another idea

matchbox2022 · Post by **matchbox2022** » Mon May 09, 2016 3:45 am

It would be pretty cool if as part of a quest story you could make a star go completely supernovae, or have it be part of the game, during random events where it can be detected, a warning goes out to everyone within 5 sectors, you see ships warping in every direction to get away, and everything gets destroyed in a gigantic flash / shockwave, including stations and planets, perhaps leaving large areas of pure nebulae, asteroids, and a black hole where the star "was".

Can be a pretty rare event, but announced to the whole server / players in MP or SP.

It'd be fantastic to have that as a controllable thing, like a superweapon item you can use next to a star, alas only used in a quest...or a very...very select few contracts for whatever reason (to make new mining or wormhole opportunities, who knows).

Just a thought, it'd be fun! But best kept as a very...very rare thing, maybe would happen in known space once every couple days of play time in who knows what sector...and especially quest"able"

Post by **Marvin** » Mon May 09, 2016 5:24 pm

Cool idea. But one trouble with "rare events" is that everyone wants to see them. Including those players who don't want to spend a lot of time playing.

matchbox2022 · Post by **matchbox2022** » Tue May 10, 2016 4:18 pm

Still could be rare and have it as a quest event.
Then everyone could see it, I personally would be willing to build a quest like that...short and sweet maybe 7 or 8 seperate events and things to do.
That and it'd be nice to make contracts part of quests too, specific ones.

Post by **Marvin** » Tue May 10, 2016 5:30 pm

Contracts were the mainstay of the Mercenary quests. Incorporating them into the current Legacy quest engine (which allows for branching) might be a tad difficult.

Post by **DaveK** » Fri May 13, 2016 4:29 pm

The problem with EM quests was that it was not easy to build a proper background quest storyline when limited to unbranched sequences of the standard contracts, though Marvin and SeeJay made a determined effort to do so!

Post by **Marvin** » Fri May 13, 2016 6:05 pm

And now the problem with doing a background quest is that all the ships are high-tech ... unless you stretch the truth about why they've advanced 400 years into the future.