Random Gen Red Alerts

kyeto13

So, as of now, we have red alerts in sector space that are.. always the same thing: you warp in, knock out four Borg cubes in X time and then have a chance to knock out a Unimatrix.

Yawn...

I mean, when you warp into a Red alert call, you have very little idea what you are coming up against. all you have our what your sensor can show you, and what the distress call says. Which, plot wise, both say very little.

So, what if you still get a Random Red Alert pop up in space... AND a random roll for a mission. so you can never quite be sure what is going to happen :P

You can have:

Borg invasion
Undine Invasion
Klingon/Fed Invasion force (Depending on faction)
A damaged freighter you have to defend for X minutes
Diplomatic FUBAR you have to correct with Chat (Ala "the Trouble with Tribbles")
Or, even special Foundry missions tied to certain sector blocks that will randomly pop up saying "Help me!" You respond to a standard distress call, and your off on an epic adventure!

Please Cryptic. Make it so

redsnake721

Good Idea.. My take on it would be for reputation marks or fleet marks. A borg alert (Omega), a Tholian/CE Alert (Nukara marks), Elachi Alert (Romulan Marks) Voth Alert (Dyson Marks) or choose Fleet marks instead. Just mix it up, make it random and award player marks for it. This would be so easy to make. Hell one of our foundry authors could make these random alerts in 20 min. Just a few waves of Cruisers and Escorts and then a battle group of Capital Dreadnoughts to fight as the boss. Make it award 480 Dil and 25 Rep marks or 25 Fleet marks and people would love it.

kyeto13

Well, the Voth are currently limited to the Dyson sphere, so they will only be showing up there.

But sure, that's kinda what I was getting at. have random 20 minutes events show up in different sectors with different rewards.

ashkrik23

Let's get an Undine invasion since we know they are returning big time in the upcoming content.

genrldestruction

I like the idea. Need to expand it a little further. Instead of having 1 mission per enemy, have several. For instance:
* Borg Staging/Unimatrix Fight (current Borg Red Alert)
* Borg Planet Assimilation (Have to guard a planet (Randomly Generated) against X waves of Borg Ships)

Add a mission or two every major patch. Voth could be explained easily enough by the Gateway stations. The Voth presumably control at least one and could get it operational enough to access other gateways.

lucho80

Frankly, with the new content, this is the direction they are heading. It's a wait and see game if they'll revamp older stuff.

sle1989

Maybe they could repurpose missions like Breaking the Planet, Starbase 24, and Gorn Minefield for this.

gogereaver

if you listion to the podcast that's one of the things they wanna do. make all the missions have more randomness to them so its not always the same stale thing. it was hinted theirs a good chance session 9 will have this for stfs. also was hinted some of it may be rare so you may play the same stf many times and all of a sudden its something you didn't see before.

but i gotta agree the whole red alert thing seems like it was just forgotten about.

andihravey

I kinda like this idea but in another way i dont.

What i would like to see is something similar to what used to be in SFC.

Roughly the same style of map with the factions on all sides. But as you warp through space you get a hail from a ship under attack, trapped in a black holes gravity well, medical emergancy from a planet or ship, etc. the posibilties are endless.

The fact is this, this game could be so brilliant and fantastic. the problem is the people who are making are either not bothered or don't have a clue. It should be that when they are working on a project they should come to us and say "were doing xyz, how would you want it to be??? tell us your ideas and we will let you know". where as at the moment its people doing forums and not really knowing whats going on.

Needs to be more gamer friendly and orientated instead of always been money first.

gogereaver

andihravey wrote: »

I kinda like this idea but in another way i dont.

What i would like to see is something similar to what used to be in SFC.

Roughly the same style of map with the factions on all sides. But as you warp through space you get a hail from a ship under attack, trapped in a black holes gravity well, medical emergancy from a planet or ship, etc. the posibilties are endless.

The fact is this, this game could be so brilliant and fantastic. the problem is the people who are making are either not bothered or don't have a clue. It should be that when they are working on a project they should come to us and say "were doing xyz, how would you want it to be??? tell us your ideas and we will let you know". where as at the moment its people doing forums and not really knowing whats going on.

Needs to be more gamer friendly and orientated instead of always been money first.

this is in game it used to be part of the diplo mining points area for crafting when you scan the allmonys random things happen. it can be giving supply's to a planet to beaming down and gathering to space and ground combat it used to be a daily. the games just been threw so many company's dev teams and even business models many things are just forgotten.