I have said this a time or two before but was thinking a bit more about it today I think it would be cool first to not only have a federation space but also a ferrengi space that is friendly to "evil" traders with a special "evil" dock with ships and items only avaliable to red players.

Also a quick thought when I used to play LORD I loved being able to gain specific abilities based off what path I chose. I think it would be neat to enable also a feature that when you join a game you are given a choice of joining the "federation" or the "ferrengi" and that you gain special abilities and pre-set assets based off this choice.

Maybe even a cooperative game of sorts where the ultimate goal is for one side to rule the universe...

Just a thought to add some depth...

I tend to see the two sides as being more the Federation and the Underground, with the Ferrengi being antagonistic to both.

I was actually just thinking about having some special Underground options because I've been wanting to add an alignment threshold for Gold ships to go with Rank. So you'd have to be +1000 alignment to fly an ISS, but maybe there would be another ship that's -1000 alignment to fly, and that would be available only through the Underground.

Setting up an alignment threshold for ships would be trivial. What's always kept me from doing it is the need to add in support for a special way to acquire these ships, through the Underground rather than normal shipyard, and maybe not even at StarDock, since an evil-only ship probably wouldn't be welcome there. Plus there's the whole question of who polices the use of these ships. Maybe some kind of Underground boss in his own ship, like one of the Feds. I think this would be interesting for Gold games where evil-only ships can exist, but it's one of those features that will take a bit of work to do and isn't at the top of my priority list. Don't give up on it, though. I do like the idea.

If the alignment limitation feature could go both ways, >= or <=, and then a number, we could create red-only ships. You don't need them to be available in the underground, just make them alignment restricted like everything else so that ppl can use them in gold edits.

Why police it? Just have a message like "This ship just feels wrong... it feels too dirty" or something to that effect. The thing about "good" people: they police themselves.

Hahahah, yeah. That could work. It just feels lazy taking that route. Why should blues get all the dressing?

I wouldn't call it lazy, just efficient use of time. Might be nice if you went blue that Zyrain "accidently" pods the player just as he does when you go red in an ISS - mistaken identity or whatever. It would add more complexity and maybe remove that "lazy" feeing.

               / Promethius / Enigma / Wolfen /

"A man who has no skills can be taught, a man who has no honor has nothing."

Bizzaro-Zyrain... lol

Needs a little pointy beard.

The Gorgon - instead of turning you into stone, turns your ship into a pod.

               / Promethius / Enigma / Wolfen /

"A man who has no skills can be taught, a man who has no honor has nothing."

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