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RE: How would YOU handle storylines? - Triple Hazard Pay Inc. - 10-21-2017
With the advent of more advanced Jump Drives, Gallia's Ambazac, Dax, La Riche, and Rocroi fleets are brought in for a blitzkrieg assault on New London from Hyperspatial Coordinates procured by either third parties or the Office of Naval Intelligence (or third parties at the behest of the Office of Naval Intelligence).
The sun would finally set on the Bretonian Empire.
RE: How would YOU handle storylines? - Toris (Old Account) - 10-21-2017
(10-21-2017, 10:19 AM)Sharky!!! Wrote: A Supernova that strikes Sirius. Chaos in each House, as they lose most of the jump gates and trade lanes.
Rheinland becomes the main trading House, aswell as most powerful military force.
Liberty falls on its knees, depending entirely on Bretonia and Kusari.
Alaska's experiments get completely exposed to the public, creating panic in Liberty.
That's actually is idea I really like and is doeable with Suncrusher being used at New York's star, for example.
RE: How would YOU handle storylines? - Goliath - 10-21-2017
(10-21-2017, 10:23 AM)Toris Wrote:(10-21-2017, 10:19 AM)Sharky!!! Wrote: A Supernova that strikes Sirius. Chaos in each House, as they lose most of the jump gates and trade lanes.
Rheinland becomes the main trading House, aswell as most powerful military force.
Liberty falls on its knees, depending entirely on Bretonia and Kusari.
Alaska's experiments get completely exposed to the public, creating panic in Liberty.
That's actually is idea I really like and is doeable with Suncrusher being used at New York's star, for example.
It would also make sense that Alaska is taken over by nomads, since the Alaska-Omicron link is back. Just sayin'...
RE: How would YOU handle storylines? - DarkTails - 10-21-2017
(10-21-2017, 10:27 AM)Sharky!!! Wrote:(10-21-2017, 10:23 AM)Toris Wrote:(10-21-2017, 10:19 AM)Sharky!!! Wrote: A Supernova that strikes Sirius. Chaos in each House, as they lose most of the jump gates and trade lanes.
Rheinland becomes the main trading House, aswell as most powerful military force.
Liberty falls on its knees, depending entirely on Bretonia and Kusari.
Alaska's experiments get completely exposed to the public, creating panic in Liberty.
That's actually is idea I really like and is doeable with Suncrusher being used at New York's star, for example.
It would also make sense that Alaska is taken over by nomads, since the Alaska-Omicron link is back. Just sayin'...
Not really since only small craft can fit through the connection, and Alaska is one of the most secure Liberty systems inRP. Minor Nomad incursions would occur, but nothing serious as large ships can't make the jump, whereas Libertonian warships are already present
RE: How would YOU handle storylines? - Ramke - 10-21-2017
I would really, really enjoy more dynamic storyline events (like this current GMG one) with actual consequences that will show in-game based on how roleplay goes. This is a real rarity and finally fulfills the promise that the player is a character that can influence the universe with their actions. Previously, it was always just playing the pawn where developers move you, now you have influence on how that pawn moves. Even if it's border conflicts like the Wild instigating the GMG-Rheinland one. Battlegroup Harmony was another great example. So was the Hidden Giant (in a way).
I think Gallia shutting off access to the core worlds as a result of military defeat/revolt/unexpected buttblasting from Council in Picardy would be something that could be beneficial for the region. It would greatly reduce easily accessible systems (thus focusing players to play in the Borderworlds & Taus, where literally all the action is already - the core worlds are exclusively filled with transports). The core worlds could, on the other hand, become sealed but still accessible via jump drives, where you could get valuable commodities or equipment if you luck out in landing there (or just become a "raid" area). It's a really wild and major idea so this would be way too much effort and would take a long time to process though. It would really spice things up for both the stagnant war and the dead area. Think of the early 4.85 map, perhaps a bit smaller.
The GRN/BAF/LN/CR front has been a stalemate for years. Any movement in either side that would bring fresh air would be fantastic (the California ZoI addition to GRN has made things a lot more interesting - events regarding base ownership or stability could be fantastic to further this change, like the San Diego event). I can confirm that all sides and their OFLs are willing to work on this front and we are all interested in something new happening after years and minor base changes.
Kusari could use a lot more political shifts given that nearly ALL of their factions are vying for the throne (GC, BD, IKN, the current republic, even Aoi I'd say), there's only one major conflict while all the other sides have been dormant for years. A lot of factions like BD and GC would need fleshing out and have "their time to shine" as they've been completely neglected - an event where a certain location starts following different ideologies and the factions behind them trying to instigate it, much like Kyushu for example.
The Nomads/Wild could make a push to reclaim areas of the Omicrons, or the opposite way around - Omicron powers discover something valuable deep in Nomad space and try to ransack/retrieve/study it, like the Azurite reactor or the entire Omicron Major area really.
Major conflicts or events could make jump holes appear(NEMPs and Nomad singularity weapons could have side-effects for example), leading to new systems to discover, the locals trying to rush and claim their domain over it in exchange for establishing areas of operation that open new trade routes or equipment should they win their claim.
Basically, providing opportunities for factions. I'm sure most official faction representatives would know what would be most interesting for them/the region.
RE: How would YOU handle storylines? - Tabris - 10-21-2017
So far some of the ideas have been interesting while others aren't really feasible with our player-base and tech. Keep em' coming though!
RE: How would YOU handle storylines? - Chuba - 10-21-2017
core and outcasts become neutral and combine their forces and weaken Corsairs and then weaken coalition (¬:
RE: How would YOU handle storylines? - ronillon - 10-21-2017
Imagine what it would be like, if all the work, that was put into stupid Gallia was put into improving Sirius amd the game itself. There are so many infocards and other stuff, that needs some love. For example all items should have their cargo requirement on them.
I would bring those new "Hostile" to Gallia, destorying it with some massive weapon/cataclysm, much like it happend in Crayter sector. Then they would leave, never to be seen again.
RE: How would YOU handle storylines? - Eurobeat - 10-21-2017
(10-21-2017, 09:45 AM)Jessitrescott Wrote: I would convince Corsairs to ally with Synthfoods, No kidding.
Yep.
RE: How would YOU handle storylines? - Sombs - 10-21-2017
The Gallic War is boring and stale in itself. It's good California is now GRN ZoI, and I'd say it is good they also got ZoI in Cortez if it would have been the result of Gallia destroying Liverpool and Kingston Border Station with Battlegroup Embrun in Manchster, as an effort to secure Magellan. I'd have placed the Betheny close to the Magellan-California gate and the Carcassonne at Magellan-Manchester gate and have Embrun take out one border station after another until Manchester's borders control is broken. I'd definitely not have Gallia magically finding the Cortez jump hole in Magellan. That just came out of nowhere, really. Once Magellan and Manchester are secured, Gallia could enter California to have a beachhead in Liberty, with the goal to keep Magellan inaccessible to Bretonia and Liberty and heading for the California-Cortez gate to seal off Cortez from both sides. Gallia is sort of neutral with OSC and Curacao is of little strategic value as now nobody really visits the planet, so Gallia can't make war prisoners here. Curacao has no important minerals to offer (since mining in space is easier and more effective anyway) and also doesn't offer anything else interesting apart from the capabilities to have Gallic people take some Curacaoan Passion Fruits and eff the shit out each other to relax.
With Cortez and Magellan cutting the trade between Liberty and Bretonia, they can't really support each other anymore, but both houses are still in the war. It forces Bretonia, Liberty and Crayter to work together on winning Cortez back to enable trade again. Nothing would be cooler than seeing a Task Force in Cortez, three stationary warships, a Dunkirk (prolly one of the Newcastle ones since the system is relatively easy to seal off from Gallia), a Crayter Carrier and the Yukon pushing Battlegroup Carcassonne back. Of course, something needs to be done about Gallic reinforcements.
Here I'd actually continue with the unrest Gallia caused in Kyushu not long ago, even with the retcon from the SLIS team. Because when both Imperial Kusari and Kusari Naval Forces see that Gallia craps on them, they turn into the one force that is fully able to turn the tables. If Kusari openly allies with Bretonia and Liberty and starts an assault against the Gallic reinforcement line in the Taus, it would enable Liberty and Bretonia and Crayter to push back Cortez, Magellan, Manchester and California to Leeds. Note that Gallia has a bottleneck situation in Leeds, as as soon as the Tau-31 connection dies, Gallia is pretty effed. It would force Gallia to use the Orkney-Edinburg connection, where the Council can prove themselves and convince people they actually exist. So it would be Battlegroup De Grasse versus Battlegroup Montmorency. Of course there is still the Tau-31-Edinburgh connection, but that is hard to access and thus not reliable. Too many asteroids, too many opportunities for the resistance to launch assaults in areas where a Valor can't exceed with sheer firepower.
Bretonia could surprise Gallia with an attack from Newcastle to Tau-31, turning Tau-31 and Tau-23 into the main battlefields of 825. I'd be in favor for some asteroid-less bubbles in both systems to allow capital fights. Leeds would slowly starve without any gallic reinforcements and the York and maybe even the Harlow could be used to secure Leeds space.
Now, facing Liberty, Crayter, Council, Bretonia and even Kusari, Gallia has to rethink their strategies. Kusari might fear a strong assault from Gallia once they turn hostile to each other, but in reality, Gallia can't just drop the Battlegroups all over the Taus and Bretonia and the Independent Worlds to wage war against Kusari. This is where Rheinland could balance the war, seeing that all Kusari, Bretonia and Liberty are busy with Gallia. This allows Rheinland to attack whichever target they deem more interesting. They don't need to worry about the three houses attacking Rheinland itself, so they can divert Battleships from the borders to secure Rheinland, pushing Corsairs, Hessians and, if they really turn out to be a threat, the Unioners in Bering back. Should the Rheinland-GMG war become a thing and Rheinland having learned from the mistakes during the 80 years war, they could push into the Sigmas and then attack Kusari from where they never would have excepted it: Honshu and Hiroshima. Both systems are weirdly unprotected. Of course Rheinland could attack Liberty again - higher playerbases on both sides than with Kusari, really - but Liberty is still one of the strongest houses and Rheinland doesn't do the same mistakes twice. Attacking Bretonia would make sense, but then again, Rheinland would suddenly end up having more territory to protect from the Corsairs and Hessians, and Bretonia really already has enough war, so that would be rather boring. To not another Texasburg, not another war for Bretonia but Rheinland-Kusari war like it was about to happen in vanilla before some mad Freelancer prevented it because he was pissed about a million credits loss. Pussy.
As an option to the long-lasting house wars, Omicron Delta should remain the center of the Omicron wars. A mobile Corsair Battlegroup pushing into Delta, Nomads and Outcasts (I know NC made a peace treaty with the Order, which is mostly in favor of the Order as both Mu and Epsilon are pretty almost impenetrable) pushing into Omicron Epsilon, Core pushing a bit into the Sigmas and less into the Omegas.
TL;DR:
- LN/BAF/CR/C/KNF/IKN pushing Gallia systematically back, bringing the war to Gallia (and make people actually play there)
- Rheinland pushing back unlawfuls and pushing into Sigmas
- Corsairs pushing into Delta
- Nomads (and Outcasts) pushing into Epsilon
- Core pushing into Sigmas to support Rheinland