These contracts mean that their ship and crew are out for extended periods of time and like YOURSELVES that means Events! (Oh we love a good event here in CE)
These events are separate from the events of the actual contracts and are randomly 'spawned' by the ticker that controls the ebb and flow of Contracts being processed.Currently Player (at the current Corp Levels) can do the following Contracts :
Haulage - Clients have large stacks of Cargo at one place and need it moving to another. The player Corporation moves it piecemeal until complete. Sometimes this might be local and only take them a few hours, other times it might be much further and/or much larger therefore it takes a lot longer.
Combat - Clients have convoys they need protecting. You are hired as part of that protection with an estimated kill rate and the need to keep the convoy safe there and back.
Salvage - Here clients need wrecks to be cleared from their space lanes. Your given a tonnage requirement to clear. It could be close it could be far away.
Mining - Clients have requirements for X,Y or Z Asteroid Resources. You will be given a specific resource to collect from a specific Field. The client drops off an Anchored Container which you need to deposit the contract good into.
The above Four types are currently what the Corp players can / could be doing. As they raise their Corporations there will be more options at their disposal, but for now that's what they have.
THE COMPETITION
Design new EVENTS for them to run into on their journeys. You need to come up with 2 paragraphs of text (no more) and they need to be related to ONE of the Contract types above. They can be GOOD or BAD events or even Passive Events that are neither - IE just something that happens
I have added to THIS post a ce-events.zip file link at the bottom of the post. It contains 354 images of CE type events. We already use all these for normal CE events but I think we could reuse them for Corp Events.
Your Event Submissions should take the following Format :
Text :
Captain, we detected a distress beacon a little off our determined route. We investigated and discovered a disabled ship adrift in space.
The occupant was barely alive. It was lucky we got to them in time. We placed them in recovery and will drop them off the next time we dock.
Events Type Designation : Good /Bad / Neither
List of things the Event CAN affect
Image from the ce-images.zip (see bottom of post)
Credits + or - (or Zero)
Item added : From Misc Store Types
Item added : From Resources
Depot Fuel Affected +
Corp XP + / -
Ship Damage +
Crew Ability + XP
You don't need to add ALL the items from above you can cherry pick. IE you may have an event that does as part of it cause the ship to break down but the crewman manages to repair it in time. That would have + Damage and perhaps + Crew Ability XP (as he / she repaired the damaged item)
You may have events where they find a floating XYZ Misc item. Or perhaps A floating crate of resources. They may do something heroic and gain Positive XP for their Corp or for themselves.
You simply need to list the attributes form above. No need to provide NUMBERS. I will add those within the event itself.
Competition Rules
#1 You may enter as many times as you like
#2 Staff may enter
#3 Please refrain form using Captain names or Settlement names in entries
#4 Entries must be safe for family audience.
Competition Closes
For now this one will remain open until I say otherwise. I will judge how many entries we get and see how we go. I have veto over entries being usable, so you may want to ensure you don't make them overly long or complicated. Plus the more entertaining the better!
Prizes
For each Entry I choose to use the winner will receive the following :
1 X CES extractor of their choice (PM me after winning)
1 X 5K fuel ticket
1 X Festive Bonus Mech Pack
100 X Festive Points
Thanks to a CE benefactor we also have 36 THREE month PA's to give away. So the first 24 picked will also receive a three month PA.
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Happy submitting
Coops
