Corporation "foreman" and/or "supervisor".
Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2017 8:54 pm
I don't know if this is possible, or if anyone else would be interested, but I'd love to see this in the game. You could choose one or the other, or both for that matter.
What are they?
Well, it would be a corporation captain who is already employed by the corporation. This corporation captain would be similar to the captain you can add to your player made ships, the captain who can use your ship to carry out missions while you're not online. In this case though, your corporation foreman/supervisor would use your existing corporation captains/ships to carry out corporation missions whether you're online or not. In other words, when a corporation captain completed an assigned mission and returned to base, the corporation foreman/supervisor could assign that captain and their ship to another mission, thus earning your corporation and its captains more XP/credits.
Why do I keep saying foreman/supervisor?
Well, depending on what you wanted to do, you could make a corporation foreman. This would be a captain who only had control over the other captains who worked out of that particular corporation location. So, if I had corporation captains working out of both Session, in the Sphere, and also out of Darklight, in Anvil, I'd need to have a foreman to control the Session captains, and another foreman for the Darklight corporation captains. A supervisor could control all corporation captains, no matter which location they worked out of. As the dev, you could choose to just have a foreman in each corporation location, or to just have a single supervisor. If you wanted, you could require that a foreman reach a specific skill level as a foreman, and then that foreman could become a supervisor, thus allowing for the use of both, but I personally think it would be easier just to go with either the foreman or the supervisor.
How do you get one of these large and in charge captains?
My recommendation would be through research. I'd say that a corporation would have to be at a specific level to unlock the research, say level 4 or 5. Once the research line was unlocked, you could then research your foreman or supervisor, and for each level you researched, they could control one additional captain. The research point requirement might require a bit of saving to allow your captain in charge to command each additional captain, maybe the way it is when you add an additional captain to your corporation?
It's just an idea.
Arlentz
What are they?
Well, it would be a corporation captain who is already employed by the corporation. This corporation captain would be similar to the captain you can add to your player made ships, the captain who can use your ship to carry out missions while you're not online. In this case though, your corporation foreman/supervisor would use your existing corporation captains/ships to carry out corporation missions whether you're online or not. In other words, when a corporation captain completed an assigned mission and returned to base, the corporation foreman/supervisor could assign that captain and their ship to another mission, thus earning your corporation and its captains more XP/credits.
Why do I keep saying foreman/supervisor?
Well, depending on what you wanted to do, you could make a corporation foreman. This would be a captain who only had control over the other captains who worked out of that particular corporation location. So, if I had corporation captains working out of both Session, in the Sphere, and also out of Darklight, in Anvil, I'd need to have a foreman to control the Session captains, and another foreman for the Darklight corporation captains. A supervisor could control all corporation captains, no matter which location they worked out of. As the dev, you could choose to just have a foreman in each corporation location, or to just have a single supervisor. If you wanted, you could require that a foreman reach a specific skill level as a foreman, and then that foreman could become a supervisor, thus allowing for the use of both, but I personally think it would be easier just to go with either the foreman or the supervisor.
How do you get one of these large and in charge captains?
My recommendation would be through research. I'd say that a corporation would have to be at a specific level to unlock the research, say level 4 or 5. Once the research line was unlocked, you could then research your foreman or supervisor, and for each level you researched, they could control one additional captain. The research point requirement might require a bit of saving to allow your captain in charge to command each additional captain, maybe the way it is when you add an additional captain to your corporation?
It's just an idea.
Arlentz