Things I want to see in Rebirth

[ConCorDian]

but thats "mini" games im talking about playing TC onboard the Skunk!!

[wwdragon]

[Aragosnat]

[ConCorDian]

it would be fun though... your character ingame would be doing the equivelent of us playing some WW2 game... because X3TC/AP would be based on his own ingame history... i know that would be kinda improbable but i think its irony would be funny

[jernaugurgeh]

[bluenog143]

[ConCorDian]

i agree on the fact there should be a proper dynamic resourcing system in place, as you said there would be more impact from pirates, there would be seige tactics, beating an enemy through a war of attrition, but also being able to role play economic warfare, destroying other companies stations and replacing them with your own...

only thing i would worry about is that the entire game would crawl to a hault... think about the carnage something like a Xenon patrol caused, if the galaxy was completely that way then the kick back from such would be tremendous. also if there was absolutly no spawning i would worry about the NPC's ability to keep things afloat... perhaps even if it was done to an extent, maybe have only 10% spawning, keep the minimum amount of resources to have the economy function but not completely. then the rest would be done via NPC traders and player traders. just an idea?

only other point on this is i would want all this done completly independant from the player... the NPC should be able to build and sustain its own economy, that way you as the player would need to actually work getting jobs and fight for the buisness we get...

another small idea that could perhaps fall into this idea on the whole is being able to take on "Contracts" things like small trade runs from Station A to Station B taking certain resources back and forth. the contract would be perhaps less lucrative per run than if a free trader picked up the run but it could offer you a constant steady income and a fixed job for one of your traders.

[Slashman]

I would pay dearly for pirates to actually act like pirates and STEAL things instead of homicidal maniacs who blow up a freighter and leave all the valuable contents floating in space while they run to attack a nearby Titan(with their fearsome fleet of four M3s).

I also second the less spawning and more active universe in terms of NPCs doing actual tasks.

What I am more worried about right now though is the feeling that you'll be forced into doing the whole corporation and trade bit and that it will be less viable to just be a pirate or merc running around with a couple ships taking jobs or strong-arming merchants. I spent a bunch of time in TC without ever actually buying my first station and I was pretty successful. I just hope that the game stays as open ended. That's another reason why the Skunk is worrisome. I sincerely hope I don't need to build all my own ships and have my own stations to do it.

[Vayde]

How about we start the game with a really dreadful economy, very few resources, and all that's available to the player is a few thousand creds, and a fast ship with a decent cargo hold.

With that in mind make the economic Ai really smart and have it start to ramp up the production of basic materials to feed the higher level fabs and so on and so forth.

Now not only will the player have a plot to contend with but the universe is getting a head start on him/her. Once the plot completes and we are free to go our own way with the goodies it provided, the universe will be just waiting for us to tip a few scales or bring down a government or two.

However should we not be cut free after the plot there's always the S&M forum to fix that little oversight

[ConCorDian]

[bluenog143]

Also when I talk about a dynamic economy/ relations there should be no spawning of ships,wares,etc. whatsoever. Like others said above it could be used for more strategic tactics (for example, sneaking behind enemy lines to attack certain trade lines or key stations to cripple ship production).

This also means no more "indestructible" enemies that can't be beaten. I remember fighting the Kha'ak in X3 and I took over all the territory and they would still spawn out of thin air. This time in X:R everyone should be able to lose just like the player. It might be really, really hard especially to fight a corporation/race/other faction (at least in the beginning) but it shouldn't be impossible.

And about dynamic race/faction conflicts there should be other things like sector takeovers and so forth.

Another thing for the economy part could be actually having a "corporation" because it never quite felt in X3 as if the player was one of the "big players".

[BlueSwede]

It was really cool to actually hear the marines boarding a ship in TC, it'd be even cooler if you could actually watch (on a monitor in your own ship) your marines boarding a ship, or a station in Rebirth ...

[ConCorDian]

[fisto]

Hello to all

Things i wana see is co-op mode ... mayby 4-8 players online same time
and building same company and factories and other stuff ..

[ConCorDian]

i honestly dont see how that would work out... the game would need to be a proper MMO... CoOp on a game like this would be insane, because think of the hours youd need to put in to build a corporation, plus then those hours can only be put in when all 4-8 of you are online at the same time? ive been a supporter of adding in Multiplayer "FEATURES" (like a solo sector that you "JUMP" to with a ship and can then trade, fight or salavage what you can against other players online) but having the bulk of the game Single Player... but sorry CoOp doesn't seem like it would work to me..