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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bill Zebub" data-source="post: 9819230" data-attributes="member: 7031982">Interesting.  Just catching up on the thread.I do NOT think that the solution to making space travel more interesting is either ship to ship combat, or more/better ship-related skills.As far as combat goes, in the fantasy genre I don't think combat makes overland travel more engaging, in the sense of requiring interesting decision-making.  It sometimes interrupts the overland travel with an activity that is possibly engaging, but it doesn't in itself make the process of traveling more engaging.And I think that ship-related skills (piloting, navigation, engineering, gunnery, etc.) would tend to just lead to dice-rolling instead of decision-making.</blockquote>