posted on March 13th, 2004, 6:51 pm
Last edited by Anonymous on March 13th, 2004, 7:20 pm, edited 1 time in total.
As i'm sure everyones noticed, its still easy to get crew but you dont get them from planets anymore. The odd thing is it's still 1 crewman after another like it was on the planets.
What i'm asking for is for freighters to drop them off at every starbase as soon as you build them. They carry 500 crewman and come every 2 minutes or so on either civilian or military freighters. They could be slightly armed and have medium shields to protect against other players but they should have to fly either using warp to avoid guns, or start out as close to your starbase as possible.
Now this presents a few problems all its own, one would be if your surrounded by asteroids and only have a wormhole in or out, only AIs ever seem to account for this and the rest(feringi are dumb anyway but always get stuck at asteroid fields in the origional A2)get stuck trying to go thru asteroid fields. I see 2 solutions, make it so they can go thru the asteroid field or can use the wormholes.
This also leaves open the use of trade ships and various other space traffic besides your own ships and the enemys. It would be nice to see random ships fly around, freighter convoys of a neutral race just going from one side of the map to the other, maybe make a trade station you can build or place a neutral one or 2 around the map. Perhaps make 2 neutral races at war with each other while you and your enemy fight the bigger fight. Hey maybe you can choose to help them and they will give you weapons or ships in exchange for your help with minerals or militarily.
The possibilitys are endless...
