SEV + Starfury

[deccan]

Probably this has come up before, but anyway...

I've been messing about with Starfury lately and I have to say that it really does get sort of boring. Once SEV comes out, I wonder if it would be possible for MM to make some sort of expansion pack to bind Starfury and SEV together. Essentially, keep Starfury's basic gameplay, but make it happen inside a living, breathing dynamic universe populated by AI-controlled factions developing their empires according to SEV's rules.

Instead of stupid quests like escorting freighters etc. that get created specifically in order to be escorted by the player, you could see a colony ship be constructed at a homeworld, escort the colony ship to its destination empty world, and when it arrives safely, you can see it start work on colonizing a new world etc.

Scientific survey missions would actually add Research Points to the empire funding the survey mission, intelligence sweeps would add intel points to the controlling empire etc.

And rework components so that they would depend on the actual results of research. That would be much, much better than the current Starfury system of going around trying to find highest-quality level of components all the time.