Managing space ship
Player is placed in shoes of captain of space ship.
Main task of captain is to complete tasks describe in mission briefing.
Inspiration - Start Trek series and BattleCruiser 3000.
Game should be rather manager them SIMSlike or 3D FPP. Something like FTL, but with larger scale, more crew and longer game time.
Crew
- pilot - piloting space ship, shuttles and fighters
- soldier/security - eliminating 'intruders on board' threat, investigating unexplained situations (crew member death, law braking, maintaining order during riots or disgruntled crew, etc)
- engineering - ship component maintenance, small and big repairs, building components based on scientists blueprints
- scientists - researching found artifacts, analyzing parts (destroyed space ships, asteroids, etc) to reverse engineering fixes for ship components
- medic - maintaining crew health
- officer - better version of each crew role, works as leader and increase productivity (or decrease)
- passenger -
- crew member -
Each crew member has his role, his stats parameter defining his fields of expertises. Can he be a good officer leading his subordinates, etc. Perhaps races to provide possible negative/positive bonuses from working with other.
Training
Crew members should be allow to perform trainings to extend their own skills or learn new ones.
Space Ship components
Engine room - provide speed and mobility
power grid - providing power for all ship components
Life support -
Bridge -
Hangar -
Medic room -
Research laboratories - can research found items, design (in cooperation with engineering) new upgrades
Barracks -
Weapons -
Ship components can be single item or complex (build from several inter-depending items). Example - engine (ST theme) are coils, IPS conducts, core, magnetic, etc.
Degradation
Each game tick/update parts are slowly degrading.
Best quality components require at least few hours/days/weeks before wear effects appear.
Worst or old components can degrade and work inefficient even after few minutes/hours without maintenance.
Battle or accident damage will lower components reliability making it permanently lower quality. Beside that - components will require usually repairs.
Mission task:
- find cure for epidemic slowly killing crew (medics and scientists cooperation, gathering samples)
- fight of possible attacks of other races/ships - they want to eliminate plague by destroying ship
- security must stops aggressive outbreaks of desperate crew
- security need to find saboteur on board - someone is deliberate damaging or destroying components
- ship suffered severe damage in previous battle - task is to reach allies territory
- depending on difficulty level part of crew is sick or injured or dead
- level of damages can differ (from small to even completely destroyed components)
- ship is very old, most of parts need constant maintenance work to just normally work, objectives requires to reach designated point
- ship is in toxic or dangerous space (nebula, radiation, etc) - crew is sick, equipment working improperly
- ship is designated to battle with different difficulty modifiers
- crew quality and training levels
- equipment quality and reliability
- investigate some phenomena, accident or post-battle site
- react in emergency case (deliver some, find cure, fight bad guy)
Situational rapports
Captain receives rapports about ship, components and crew status. How long current component will work, how often performed are
To Do:
Create connections between components so keeping them in good shape requires balanced power, meet dependencies and set priorities.
How to control or manipulate this environment? How to modify behavior?
How to let player create his ship of dreams with perfect crew? Without overflowing with too many small details and yet giving him felling that he is in control. To not create situation where captain/player is a passive observer.
