Cruiser Command Content Brainstorming

This text file will most likely contain a lot of un-organized content used for planning the game.



1. Basics

The Goal ( Death of the enemy )
The Teams ( Red, Blue, or whatever )
The Cruisers
The Players
The Items ( Weapons, Materials, Ammo )
The Ships


The goal in the game of Cruiser Command is to kill the enemy cruiser. How you do this depends on you. You can either

try and get the game over with to prove you are a master of rushing, or show your true skills in combat by allowing the

enemy to upgrade as you do, making for one glorious battle.

Each team can capture planets. Planets are used for buying/selling, setting up trade-routes, and upgrading. Planets

can be completely destroyed, so capturing can be dangerous when you become too powerful. Capturing can only be

done when its health is 25% or lower. Upgrades can make the requirement 30% or 35%.

Asteroids spawn randomly on the map around the player. ( dying radius would be farther than player view, imitating a

sort of fog of war and optimization method. ) Asteroids when generated will have random contents of different

materials. Some materials are rare and very little to none will be found in asteroids, however a fluke can give one team

a bounty.

Upgrading will make your crew and ship much stronger, but can be done differently each time. Your ship can either be

versatile, powerful or resistant. Spending your resources on all 3 types would limit you slightly, but researching 2

different trees could become an advantage if used correctly.

The role of the player is the most important part of the game, as it is what makes it function. It is not hard to fulfill

your role and it is not hard to pick another one either. If you are done with your role and it has no activity at the

moment, you can either query a player for their role, they have 2 choices: Decline, Accept. Accepting will result in your

role becoming Crew Member, a player with almost no jurisdiction over some parts of the ship.

Planets themselves can be boarded and players can leave the ship to do combat on the same planet if they are both

attempting to capture the same planet, or even defend. When enemy players are on your planet, they can destroy the

global generator which disables space defense systems, allowing for easier capture. To repair the planet you must ward

off the enemy. The way this would be designed mapping-wise would be very easy. For each planet there would be a

somewhat medium-large room outside of the space area to act as the pinnacle or command center of the planet where

combat would be done.

The space area would be a very large flat panel as big as hammer can handle. Inside your ship would also be a room

outside of the space area where players interact with eachother in first person view. Enemy players can board your

ship, and their ship can take a slot in your docking bay. Shooting it with weapons can destroy their ship, emptying the

slot, or it can be recalled at their cruiser.


At the end of every round, the next map + gametype is chosen. (votemap is allowed but requires 75% vote)

-=Gametypes=-

Skirmish
-- Play a whole 60 minutes on a regular gametype.

Endless
-- You get the picture. Votemap is enabled after 30 minutes.

Sudden Death
-- Both ships are permanently infested, slowly damaging them.

Conquest
 -- Gain conquest points for every planet you own.

Rush
-- No asteroids, gain money overtime from planets you own. Anomoly spawn-rate increased. Upgrade duration

decreased. Round lasts 60 minutes.




3. The Teams

The two teams will consist of 7-8 players each. Unbalanced teams by 2+ players will be rebalanced.

Team captains will be chosen before the game starts.


4. The Cruisers

The cruiser is the most important part of the game for each team, also the most active.

The cruiser relies on energy, which comes from the reactor in the center of the ship. The reactor requires maintenance,

so an engineer will need to fix it or refresh the fuel.

Parts of the ship can become broken and un-usable after a battle or from being infected. The ship being infested allows

the ship captain to purge the ship, except for the bridge, which is closed off by an airlock and not prone to infection.

You can use your resources to repair your ship, if you have the right ones. The engineer must fix specific things like the

engine, or seats to the miner/gunner positions. You can also get repairs from a planet you own, and buy resources for

later repairing/upgrading or expensive repair/shield kits.


5. The Players

Each players sole purpose in Cruiser Command is to use their role to it's fullest. If the role is not important at the time

or you'd prefer completing another task elsewhere, a player can easily switch roles if there is an empty slot.


6. The Items

Items can range from Raw Ore, Ammo for ship weapons, Weapons for players or ships, Artifacts or harvested junk for

recycling ($$$).


7. The Ships

Each cruiser can house 3 ships of 4 different types in the docking bay. Because there are only 3 ships, there can only be

3 pilots per team.



Content:

-=Roles=-

+ Captain ( 1 slot )
- Fly the ship to victory.

+ Pilot ( 3 slots )
- Fly ships from the ship to victory.

+ Engineer ( 2 slots )
- Feed the reactor fuel, fix broken things, put out fires.

+ Mining
- Mine asteroids for resources. Mining laser does minor damage to ships.
- Has access to Resource Management.

+ Brigadier
- Access to Battle-suit when researched.
- Access to Jet-pack when researched.

~~ Battle-suit can only wield primary weapons. Otherwise player can hold Primary, Side-arm and Grenade.

+ Crew Member ( Any )
- Able to man guns.
- Able to take minor tasks inside the ship.
- Able to board a pilots ship as a gunner.
- Able to leave the ship when boarded on planets.




-=Ships=-

+ Manta
- Light scout ship. 2 light weapons.
- Fast
- Weak

+ Peregrine
- Medium assault ship. 1 medium weapon, 2 light weapons.
- Balanced

+ Tiger
- Heavy assault ship. 2 medium weapons, 1 light weapon.
- Slow
- Strong

+ Eclipse
- Heavy bomber ship. 1 medium weapons, 1 bomb.
- Slow



-=Weapons=-
~ all weapons recharge except for the 3rd slot weapons (grenades and etc.)
~~ donators shoot golden rounds out of each gun and fire-rate is slightly increasted.

+ Anti-Personel Blaster (Free)
-Weak, but useful.

+ Falcon Energy Blaster
-Much more powerful sidearm.

+ Standard Pulse Rifle
-Military issued standard pulse rifle.

+ Dispersion Cannon
-Pulse cannon, acts as a shotgun.

+ Reaper Plasma Repeater
-Heavy machine-gun that deals good damage to players and armor but not shields.
-If player is not in a battlesuit, walk/run speed will be reduced.

+ Particle Rifle
-Sniper with good damage but slow fire-rate.
-Battlesuit cannot equip.


+ Fragmentation Grenade
+ Smoke Grenade
+ Timed Satchel


-=Trade and Materials=-


- Iron
- Cobalt
- Platinum
- Diamond
- Gold
- Uranium

- Carbon
- Recycled Metal
- Scrap Metal
- Water
- Hydrogen
- Oxygen

- Food Rations
- Exotic Spices
- Alien Artifact


-=Ship Upgrades=-

]]]- Endurance ( resistant )
- Stronger cruiser armor
- Stronger engines

+ Hardened Hull
- Cruiser HP increased by 500.

--+ Tempered
- Crusier HP increased by 1000.

+ Hardened Engines
- Engine HP increased by 250.

+ Dual-Core
- When engine blow-out occurs, a backup engine can help get you to safety.


]]]- Science ( versatile )
- Stronger shields
- Faster engines

+ Emergency Capacitor
- Ship now has a capacitor that activates at low power for a small boost.

+ Advanced Capacitor
- Weapons no longer drain primary ship battery.

+ Reflective Shields
- Asteroids no longer deal damage when cruiser collision occurs. Less damage from kinetic weapons.

+ Photon Shields
- Takes less damage from energy based weapons, but 15% more from kinetic weapons.


]]]- Military ( powerful )
- Stronger weapons (cruiser and ships)
- Stronger ships

+ Hardened Kinetics
- Kinetic weaponry damage increase.

+ Neutron Weaponry
- Energy weaponry damage increase.

+ Advanced Engines
- Team ships are now faster.

+ Hardened Fleet
- Team ships HP increased.