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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nomotog" data-source="post: 7932661" data-attributes="member: 6691958">I have an idea for ship combat that I just keep turning over and over in my head trying to think of how to avoid the big issues with it. The Core idea is to rip off FTL/Battlestations. You do a full map of the ship and have players move around it. Weapons would work by targeting a room on the target ship with a focus on weapons that create zone hazards (Fire, gas, timed explosives.) and that gets you at least partway. Most player powers stay usable, but then you realize some systems are more exciting than others.Like shields. In FTL shields are very simple. If put a guy stationed at the shields console they heal the shields over time. Translated to group play you have one player sitting still making one skill check over and over. For a long time, I couldn't figure out how to make that fun. My first thought was to make it hard. Like you have to roll high so you have to kind of try and stack buffs to succeed. That didn't really work well. The other idea was to not do shields as a station for players. My current thought, the best I have so far, is to make it so shields are small. If you set up a shield then it only affects one room. It gives the player managing the shields a choice. They have to decide what to protect.On the other side of shields. Life support systems oddly compelling out of the gate. Simply being able to vent rooms on a ship is cool and you quickly get into fun ideas like what if you could use the vents to move different gas attacks around the ship.</blockquote>

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