Goonhub
03-10-2013, 07:13 AM
Good player rewards and events, tied into one thing I thought up yesterday.
We've all been in the situation where we're sitting in deadchat, realising the round is going to go on another 60 minutes because some staff assistant toolboxed us for our oxygen tank and the chef, being an irresponsible stain on society, has gibbed our corpses.
I think that there should be a new random event that allows dead players to rejoin the game, if only briefly. There are a few ways to achieve this and I'm sure the more than capable minds that lurk here will come up with more than I can, but some examples would be;
The Haunting - A peculiar solar flare boosts the strength of a ghost's ectoplasm, allowing them to interact with more than chairs! Cue a poltergeist rampage as station crew duck and weave their way through halls of hurled objects, gas tanks mysteriously switch on and light bulbs overload like a poorly contrived death scene from Final Destination. The Chapel would be a no-go zone, of course, and the Chaplain would be called upon to cleanse the station with a fully-automatic Bible and various religious battlecries.
Martian invasion - Telescience has done it again! Dead players are put into the bodies of martians who are pretty miffed that all their artifacts are being touched by grubby greysuit hands.
Ice moon away team, redux - The wendigos have 'extracted' information about the station from an expedition survivor, and have decided to group up and deal with the sky gods once and for all. Dead players take the place of the wendigo away team that somehow make it onto the station. Also maybe all the lights go out because this random event is directed by John Carpenter or something.
This could be something that could be used as a reward for 'good' players also. Perhaps their accounts could be flagged so that when (if) random events like this happen and they're dead, they get to do it/ get priority on doing it?
Mostly I was just thinking of things that the dead could do and it spilled from that.
We've all been in the situation where we're sitting in deadchat, realising the round is going to go on another 60 minutes because some staff assistant toolboxed us for our oxygen tank and the chef, being an irresponsible stain on society, has gibbed our corpses.
I think that there should be a new random event that allows dead players to rejoin the game, if only briefly. There are a few ways to achieve this and I'm sure the more than capable minds that lurk here will come up with more than I can, but some examples would be;
The Haunting - A peculiar solar flare boosts the strength of a ghost's ectoplasm, allowing them to interact with more than chairs! Cue a poltergeist rampage as station crew duck and weave their way through halls of hurled objects, gas tanks mysteriously switch on and light bulbs overload like a poorly contrived death scene from Final Destination. The Chapel would be a no-go zone, of course, and the Chaplain would be called upon to cleanse the station with a fully-automatic Bible and various religious battlecries.
Martian invasion - Telescience has done it again! Dead players are put into the bodies of martians who are pretty miffed that all their artifacts are being touched by grubby greysuit hands.
Ice moon away team, redux - The wendigos have 'extracted' information about the station from an expedition survivor, and have decided to group up and deal with the sky gods once and for all. Dead players take the place of the wendigo away team that somehow make it onto the station. Also maybe all the lights go out because this random event is directed by John Carpenter or something.
This could be something that could be used as a reward for 'good' players also. Perhaps their accounts could be flagged so that when (if) random events like this happen and they're dead, they get to do it/ get priority on doing it?
Mostly I was just thinking of things that the dead could do and it spilled from that.