Station rules of engagement
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Ah, but what Designates a "Military" Ship?
Does just strapping a Starship Weapon to your Vasama make it count, or will you need a special Counter-Command/Electronic Combat Module to "Jam" a Station's general Save Zone enough that the Command Center can be taken?
Indeed, this is why I'm hoping we're not going to be limited to joining a single group, so small organizations can ban together to form Coalitions and Alliances to create and operate various Stations and Mega Stations like a Faction without giving up all their Autonomy.
Does just strapping a Starship Weapon to your Vasama make it count, or will you need a special Counter-Command/Electronic Combat Module to "Jam" a Station's general Save Zone enough that the Command Center can be taken?
Indeed, this is why I'm hoping we're not going to be limited to joining a single group, so small organizations can ban together to form Coalitions and Alliances to create and operate various Stations and Mega Stations like a Faction without giving up all their Autonomy.
Honestly I was thinking less about Nation-States and more about Corporate Co-operations; Things like Public Refueling Stations would want the protection of being apart of a larger entity without consolidating all their resources into one Mega Station, thus requiring Franchising or Subsidiation as part of a bigger Industry Partnership.
I would rather see them just banding together in sorts of military alliances/coalitions, I think that would be more beneficial for the smaller factions involved, they could of course band together and make a mega station or station and give each other different parts of the station too where they are free to expand, I believe that may be the best out of the options if it is a close enough alliance.
A station representing days or weeks of effort by a large group of people shouldn't be able to disappear overnight. I hope Starbase is respectful to its players, particularly the defenders, by making sure that conflict happens between people (not player-vs-door) at a reasonable time of day that everyone can participate in and enjoy. At the same time, I hope there are sub-objectives (satellites, capturable mines, or other assets) that can create interesting smaller-scale conflicts with lower stakes around the universe and provide fun without the full "we just lost everything, might as well disband the guild and quit the game" cost of losing a complete faction station.
Most importantly, this is a game, not a job. People aren't going to stand around on guard duty watching an empty hallway in a station all day. They aren't going to fly their ship around in circles patrolling empty space for hours watching for attackers. That's boring, and it's an unreasonable expectation. Those things should be automated or systematized so people can be off enjoying the actual game, but still have time to come back and engage in whatever conflict arises.
Most importantly, this is a game, not a job. People aren't going to stand around on guard duty watching an empty hallway in a station all day. They aren't going to fly their ship around in circles patrolling empty space for hours watching for attackers. That's boring, and it's an unreasonable expectation. Those things should be automated or systematized so people can be off enjoying the actual game, but still have time to come back and engage in whatever conflict arises.
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That would be really cool! I would love to have multiple objectives over a station that would require to be destroyed/captured in order to advance in the siege further.
Also if it were possible and people did not use discord etc it would be awesome if you could have some system where if you destroy the antennas of a station then the defenders could not call for reinforcements from other factions.
Maybe there could be other similar things but more about station capabilities.
I think that would not be adequate to destroying the exterior part Antenna, as the safe zone would still be up, it would be something like secondary objectives, maybe the more of them you take out, a small portion of the time that you need to besiege a station would go down? Preferably more negative things though than that time thing.
