My idea is: Each faction would start with one hero, which would be its leader (the emperor for instance). I think this would make the ingame factions look more "alive", for example, seeing the emperor himself leading the fleets of his empire. I think this could also encourage players to create custom faction, if we could create our own faction leaders for our factions. After all, who doesnt love making his own characters and seeing them in action?



These "faction leaders" could give better bonuses to fleets or systems than the heroes that can be normally hired. Or they could have unique abilities in their skill trees. This, in my opinions, could offer some strategic options for gameplay, since it would single fleet or a system stronger than others. Then it would be a question, where to put my best fleet to best use.



Also sorry if something like this was posted before, maybe i missed it.

It's not a bad idea but it could be rather more complex to implement than one would perhaps think at first glance, because would the hero emperor have a family, leading to an imperial family/dynasty also having to be implemented (which will never happen I believe because ES just wasn't conceived to have the depth of, say, Empire Total War) or would it just be a hero leading the empire alone, which is an idea I don't really like to be honest.



I would welcome it if there was a hierarchy among the heroes and if you could award ranks, for example appointing one hero supreme admiral whereas all the others would only be admirals etc so that there are differences and subordination, which I feel would help make the game deeper, but I just don't see it happening. Hero academy is too small to support thorough chain of command.



Also, even a simulated senate or advisory council could be good fun, but again that's not what the Devs apparently want, they want a sleek straightforward space combat game. Nevertheless, there are some Total War game aspects which I would love to see in every game... perhaps one day there'll be a space total war... haha lol

My problem with the heroes is:

Whatever race you play. The heroes are random. At one hand this is very important to have more variety ingame, but at the other hand I miss this "alive" to better identify with your race. Its strange to play a race and have not min. one hero of your own race. That's really strange.

A leader could change it a little.

I'll have to search for this when I have more time, but I'm fairly certain the devs have heard this idea before and ruled it out. The empire leaders (the people we see in those portraits at faction selection) are not going to become playable.



I think, basically, we're supposed to go we the notion that we, the player, are those characters. We're the emperor/general/great bird/hive mind/prime/whatever of each race.

FinalStrigon wrote:
I think, basically, we're supposed to go we the notion that we, the player, are those characters. We're the emperor/general/great bird/hive mind/prime/whatever of each race.

I agree, unfortunately, I vaguely recall seeing/reading somewhere that te Devs didn't want to go there...