Endless Mode

[Nomad Hellfist]

I thought about how Transcendence would work as a sandbox game, and I came to the conclusion that Transcendence should have an Endless mode after the main game is finished.

Possible features of Endless mode:

• Accessible after winning the main game
• If starting from last game won, starts the player with all statistics reset, but with all items held at the moment of winning the game
• Every system is a new, randomly-generated system with one stargate (certain systems like St. Katharine's Star can appear more than once, but are different from the last time they were visited)
• Stargates are one-way only; cannot backtrack to any previous systems (because they are deleted from memory)
• Difficulty (and tech) level of systems increases every 5-10 systems until maximum
• Can only reach the final system from Elysium, which can only be reached by the usual methods (ie. Gem of Despair, transpace jumpdrive)
• Final system contains only one stargate to a random system and one boss ship/fleet that needs to be destroyed to win
• Upon winning, the statistics for the current run is saved and Endless mode begins all over again

If this had been suggested before, please tell me about it.

[RPC]

There is a Sandbox. However, those modes haven't been suggested yet. If you can mod, you could contribute those modes to Sandbox

[Ttech]

I think this is a true sandbox everything is fully generated at random. Indeed, as RPC said, stop by IRC sometime, discuss sandbox ideas, if you can mod, definitively help out!

[Star Weaver]

I suggested having predefined mini-networks containing faction capitols stitching them together randomly with random webbing; last I heard their topology engineer was working on just that .

A linear survival mode could also be interesting, but I don't know if there's enough topo-related script commands to make it work without being a big static-data kludge yet.

[Ttech]

I think we can have a balance of the two.

[Dedalo]

How about a solar system where you'd be constantly attacked by ships, as in the screen saver.

On that solar system there would only be one station, in which you only could buy, refuel, repair the armor, (instal / remove) devices and convert money.

It would be a test of endurance, the more resources you have when you finish the game, the more time you could survive.

[digdug]

How about a solar system where you'd be constantly attacked by ships, as in the screen saver.

On that solar system there would only be one station, in which you only could buy, refuel, repair the armor, (instal / remove) devices and convert money.

It would be a test of endurance, the more resources you have when you finish the game, the more time you could survive.

battlezone ? http://xelerus.de/index.php?s=mod&id=307