Game Idea: The problem with coffee

[Flixi]

Do you remember,

Captain Sulu sitting down on the captain's chair of the USS Excelsior ... a kindly pretty woman brings him the coffee in a cup with Starfleet logo on it.

And then suddenly the cup went broken, the mision for Sulu started.


I have a great idea how to introduce random missions on advance (if there are random missions, what I hope)

You know, many players want a choice of being confronted with a random mission or having the choice of traveling to a meeting point with their friends or to the destination of their original mission.

But some captains want random missions and thus they tell the system/AI that they are more or less prepared for random mission. And this is how it can work:

If you are in Open Space or on Warp Speed ...

... click the button on your captain's chair communication device.

Select: Order cup of coffee

and see what cool mission will be generated for you. You can also place bets whether the cup will break or not! hihi.

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For all people who dislike coffee, you can chose during charakter selection the favorite drink of your captain during duty: Also Klingon drinks available. Then the term "coffee" will be replaced with what you selected during character creation :)

What do you think about this idea?

[babanathie]

Sounds good in principle. I would like to get a mission and have it interrupted by the actual mission. It would give the game a more Trekish feel.

[stogod]

I agree this is a good idea but I believe that these mini-missions should randomly appear everytime you are in warp. You could have the choice between going to the cut sceen and it only taking a few seconds or remaining on the ship as warp is travelled. Maybie 10-15 minuites.

[Flixi]

Yeah, of course the "Ordering a cup of coffee" could actually be one of many ways to introduce a random mission.

Random missions can indeed happen randomly, hihi. But maybe there could be kind of random-generator that a random mission occurs with higher chance when "Ordering a cup of cofeee"

I just want this typical feeling of star trek, that there is always something happening, when you drink your cup of coffee :)

[DrkBlueXG]

Do you remember,

Captain Sulu sitting down on the captain's chair of the USS Excelsior ... a kindly pretty woman brings him the coffee in a cup with Starfleet logo on it.

And then suddenly the cup went broken, the mision for Sulu started.

LOL, I thought you were going to say that a secret mission would start for Sulu with the woman similar to the "Hot Coffee Mod" for GTA: San Andreas.

But...of course...instead of a pretty woman, it would be a burly male klingon nowadays.

[stogod]

Maybie the more "random missions you do" you could earn more special points these add up and if you are bellow a certain number members of the crew will start to mutiny. Also due to there nature klingons have a higher chance of mutiny than federation while borg are almost impossible to make mutiny:)

[Ontas]

I like the idea of random missions, but I don't know if I want them to be "generated" by a player action like ordering a cup of coffee.

They should strike (as random missions do) at any time, pulling attention away from whatever you're trying to focus on. Many times on the show, the ship's actual mission would be something routine, when a random event would suddenly become the focus of the ship and the drive of the plot. Since this is a game, and distractions can be annoying (say if you're in an important fleet mission), players should be given the option to ignore random events, missing out only on what could have been gained by accepting the mission. I just personally don't see the point of "random events" happening if they're not really random at all, but activated by the player.

[Flixi]

but i need that button on my captain's chair to "Order a cup of coffee" :-)

[ElimGarak]

that's a very trekkie thing :D
I would like to go to Quarks and to ask for a dish of Racht! then a cutscene is displayed and Khaless appears in front of me and singing an opera tells me: 'go to the temple of Ratahj falls and bring me the sword of khaless!!!'

QAPLA'

[Ontas]

but i need that button on my captain's chair to "Order a cup of coffee" :-)

Trust me when I say I sympathize. I loved that scene so much I spent hours as a child (and today) sipping out of my "Enterprise NCC-1701-A" coffee cup with saucer (basically the same as the Excelsior cup but made for the Enterprise).

I managed to resist the temptation to rattle it off the table in an attempt to recreate that scene for years. The cup was finally broken in an unrelated (and extremely disappointing) incident, but someone recently gave me a new one as a gift.