Startopia Sequel Pole #1

[Catty2882]

Now that I am able to, here's my first pole asking what you want, and don't want to see in an unofficial Startopia 2 that we're trying to get off the ground ...

Do you want a new peep?

[Crundor]

Offcourse, many new peeps ;)

Different jobs should have more then one species of aliens who will do the job. Because now alien x does job x, alien y does job y and all of that can become boring.

Why not make 3 species of aliens plant stuff on the biodeck, perhaps a special species for underwaterplanting (mermaid kind-of alien), special species for flora and another species to keep an eye on the fauna on the biodeck.

Every job should have at least 2 different species to do it. Give them special skills that give bonusses when you 2 or more of the different species are hired and working.


Stuff like that :)

[Catty2882]

Hmm, good ideas there!

Also, I was begining to think that I was here all alone ...

.... *bale of hay rolls past* ....

[TigerTye]

round bale or square bale?

[Catty2882]

Isn't that the million dollar question!

[Crundor]

Hmm, good ideas there!

Also, I was begining to think that I was here all alone ...

.... *bale of hay rolls past* ....



I was off to rock werchter from 28june-2july and I'll be gone for 1 week starting tomorrow (8july-15july), buty rest assure, I visit this forum almost every day:D



PS: An entire bale of hay? :eek:

[Catty2882]

Yes, covered in crickets ....

[TigerTye]

catch some. i hear they are good fried then dipped in chocolate :rolleyes:

[Catty2882]

oh yeah, people actual eat them! Ewww, apparently they're very crunchy *vomit* ... although, if I had to eat a bug for some strange reason - I'd pick cricket over cockroach coz I hate those things *shudder* ... I may even pick cricket over a worm or something slimey like that ... mind you, with what's in food these days, who says we haven't unknowingly eaten something foul? I mean, as if a factory that makes food doesn't have rats runing on the machines in the middle of the night ...

Ok, sorry, are you all put off food now? lol

[TigerTye]

thanks for reminding me why i don't eat ravioli from the can any more.

Ok i like crundor's idea of multiple peeps able to do the same job. my suggestion: say the targ are still the best to hire for the comsensor but in case you cant find any to hire you can always hire the new species instead. the new guys aren't quite as good as the targ but they are better than nothing. and if you have 2 targ and one of the new guys they get an extra bit of happy hit on that particular comsensor because you are an EOE :D

idea for a new species: how about some regular humans? i've always wondered why OUR species isn't good enough to be on the station and traveling the galaxy :scratch:

[Catty2882]

Good idea.

Actually, about the targ - I found them kind of lacking, and I was thinking about making them more interesting so I thought, what about if there's a Queen Grekka Targ that can motivate and improve the happiness of Targ employees, but will only come to your station and be employable if certain objectives are met ...

So if there were humans, what job would they have?

[TigerTye]

a fussy, royal, fem targ... :scratch: i like it!

as for the humans... why not make us the ever so needful Memau Hunters? the good humans could cage them for sale and the criminal humans could just shoot them where they stand :rolleyes: and we make GREAT tourists because we'll do most anything in the name of the mighty vacation :D

are you by chance considering some new plants for the biodeck? most of the ones currently in the game are just so, well, so green. some more flowering plants and trees of a different color would by nice.

[Catty2882]

Hmmm human hunters ... sounds interesting ... actually, it wouldn't be far fetched to say I can see humans trying to capture peeps! lol ... and greys come up to humans and try to trick them into getting on a "probe-u-lator" lol

[tarthrin]

I couldn't vote on the poll, but I'd still like to throw in my 2 credits.

I'd like to see maybe 2 new peeps. With 2 new ones it might make it a little easier to balance the opposing peeps theme.

I do like the idea of humans for one, but so far I don't have any ideas for a second race.

Some jobs for the new peeps could be like some kind of entertainers, (dancers, jugglers, gypsie-type stuff), bartenders. I would think a job on the entertainment deck would be best, only because currently only one of the races works on that level.

[tarthrin]

AHAH!

Just thought of something.

Intergalactic Chefs!

The new race could be some multi-apendaged peep that works on your entertainment floor as a chef, in a new building (or in your bars maybe).

This could give an opportunity for new buildings too, sushi bar, or restaurant, whatever.

[Catty2882]

Interesting, a chef peep WOULD make for a better pleasure deck!

[Ambassador to Startopia]

I've had startopia 2 possibilites rattling around in my head for ages. Here's some peep ideas to throw at you guys.

1: A kind of herder/hunter peep used to raise and kill your fauna. I can't make up my mind what it should look like.

2: These weird robot orbs with doc ock style tenticles coming out of them to act as arms & legs and the classic rectangular robot head. Their function is to work in a data bank building that acts as a library for your station. The more of them you have on the job, the faster the processing speed for customers. Being data freeks they'll probably get along really well with the Targ and Turrakken.

3: Some kind of mermen species. I still can't figure out what they should do.

That's all for now. Tell me when we'll start discussing new buildings and this trickle of ideas will turn into a flood.

[TigerTye]

An octopus chef... hmm... yeah in an upper scale restaurant facility that wont let salt hogs in the door :D

[Crundor]

Different kind of scuzzers would be cool to:

For cleaning: Somekind of vacuumcleaner riding around the station
For building/reparing: A scuzzer with 4 little arms swinging around tools

Some special droids for policework (like the sec scuz) and a special droid for battles, some kind of little, mobile version of the sec column painted in camouflage colours.


Just stuff like that, and then you can make special scuzzer shops/bars/restaurants/toilets where they can replenish themselfs, because they would almost have a human/alien AI, because now there kind of brain-dead and only run around make things clean/repaired and occasionly recharging at a recharger.

Maybe you can make a special small "robot-pod" attached to you're spacestation, a sort of mini-spacestation with al the 3 decks like in the big one.
An engineer deck for building, researching and recycling robots
An entertainment deck for resting, eating, toilet-ing, ...
And a biodeck with rivers of oil, mechanical plants, ...

[Catty2882]

Reminds me of futurama.

Well, yeah it does make sense that in such a futuristic setting, robots should have AI.

[Arctic_Wolf]

Doesn't Eidos still own the licsense? If so you might encounter problems making a StarTopia 2 even if you don't try to sell it.

[Crundor]

Ok, with my leet skills in paint (over 1000 MS Paint hours went into this) I've made the following design of my idea.

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/2913/staropia2lm9.jpg


Here's the explanation:

The original Space Station:
- Practically just like it is now, but with extra sorts of entertainement, more military features, more security features and more biodeck features.

**** More entertainement: Boxing Ring, Arcade, Sportfacilities, ...
**** More military: Smaller sentries, different weapons for you're aliens to hold, small RPG-like parameters for you're military aliens (with experience), transport pods (to transport you're troops from one pod to another, so they don't have to run large distances),...
**** More security: different security droids, security cameras, a "fifth element" bomb detector, ...
**** More Biodeck: Animals, fishingponds, birds, insects: all can be transformed into materials (luxurious or common cargo) for export or to keep you're peeps happy (fur-clothes, lobster dinner, pet-companion),...


The 3 robot spheres:
- See my post above


The launching Sphere:
- To build and launch trade an war spaceships, because you don't have to fight in you're spacestation, but you have to actually travel to enemie space stations and drop you're soldiers in and start a war, if succesful, you will be the lord of the universe with a vast amount of spacestations.




Now, thats how the spacestation should look, there's still the planets I would like to see in the game (for trade or hiring mercenaries) and many more (but I'm to lazy for the moment to explain my entire idea in detail :whistle: )

[Overpowered]

Humans and Worker's Wages.

Edit: More Cargo.