It would be awesome if some random events will be interactive. Your choices will make it positive or negative.



Like, for example:

"Your ship %shipname% has found strange looking alien ship on newly discovered planet. It lies abandoned with traces of internal explosions and acid-like corrosion. Should your expedition: (a) search it. (b) destroy it. (c) %something else%"



If you choose (a), your crew finds alien eggs, starts to research it (+20 research points) got infested and killed. Ship do not responding to commands and drifts toward your nearest colony. If not destroyed, infestates colony etc.

Choose (b) - they fire first, then salvage parts (+20 Dust).



So, choices may lead to different interesting (inter)galactic events. Like whole galaxy fighting alien infestation/deadly virus/Cthulhu.

I like this idea, especially the idea that a simple single even can escalate into a galaxy wide catastrophic threat if mistreated, but how would you prevent people from learning the correct answers and thus being able to avert more serious situations?

Eventually, the whole game will be known throughtly.

Add some randomness, counterintuitiveness. Like 5-7 different set of choices per event.

But it won't take long before people learn the right reaction for the right situation, i demand the ability to fail!

I set up a thread on this AGES ago...

Look into it and drop your ideas there, hopefully it will be considered.



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