I agree with Charles on this one, carrying out an escort mission with a heavily armed galaxy class cruser is one thing, being able to win through with an intrepid class ship would be quite another.
but I also like the idea of having upgrades to ship systems available during the plot, so that the gameplay changes. the enterprise is afterall the federation's flagship, and always has top of the line equipment, but quite often in the trek series they encounter federation ships with less top grade equipment, either through damage or just through wearing out. It would make sense to me that the game would start with a ship with average equipment performing run of the mill missions such as patrol duty or carrying supplies (though of course people like the firregi, rogue Klingons or pakleds might make such missions less routine), then later on, when your a more renowned and experienced captain, your ship gets a refit and your sent out exploring the unknown, guarding the neutral zone or fighting off borg attacks. Even more interestingly, you could give the players a choice of missions, and offer upgrades as hidden rewards to some of them. I don't mean in the smugglers 3 sense (obviously the federation aren't that mercinary), only that if you heroically fight off some Klingons, and then head back to earth, you could be given a refit in preparation for some more dangerous missions later, where as if you do not choose to encounter the Klingons, or don't take the mission back to earth, you hever have chance for a refit. thus you could have hidden bonuses in the game depending upon which path the player choose, and even more replay value. Beware the Grue! Dark. ----- --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
