Good post Commander Zibling,

I'd be up for arranging any of the required custom 2D on Fed/Imp uniforms, rank insignia, permits and medals should they get woven into the Pioneer game fabric.

Cool stuff, sir! That would indeed look great, given your superb icons so far! 🙂

PS

I had a thought about those pilots who fly for both mlitaries:

The awards screen could be toggled to show two modes = Fed and Imp.

These screens would have the uniform lying flat on what could be the bunk bed of a starship.

The Fed award screen could have a backdrop with holo-photos of Earth, and a few cans of Riedquat beer!

The Imp award screen would be similar but would have loyalty posters and various imperial items, daggers etc.

This, coupled with a reworked ranking system would be a real winner. Personally I would love to play and see

if I can get that next upgrade to my award screen, and to see my flight jacket with more oakleaf and medals!

😀

There are plans, but I have no time right now. 😥

The lua mission scripting is very flexible, although more binding will be necessary here and there. A capable C++ programmer could get the ball rolling on military missions.

how about actually joining the military, as opposed to just the 'freelance' way its portrayed in the earlier games.

you could be sent on missions with other military ships to operate in a pack, eventually gaining rank to take command, issue orders and perhaps even play in a scripted (or preferably dynamically generated campaign)

(i can dream, no? )

perhaps the game could even be centred around this, rolling warfare between 2 evenly balanced sides, akin to the federation and empire... which could be awesome as you suddenly find you have to flee your favourite trading post due to imperial invasion... this could have an impact on all aspects of the game. Jumped by pirates? maybe the feds are running an interdiction that day and jump in blow away your attackers. Better make sure your papers are in order though;)

perhaps you could even gain command of carrier vessels or entire fleets if you wanted a desk job 😀

You're basically talking about a Mastor of Orion Metagame that the powers that be are playing. I am longing for something like this for a long time...

Well u could always for some of the outlaying and 1000+ lightyear areas generate random ( from a list of minor power names) random groups corparations owning a few planets. Indepdant named factions that would dynamically expand contract colonize fight wars and affect the game world and the players actions would contribute along the way

Star wolves and those types of games come to mind for a dynamic living world in which to fly

For starters missions for indepdant worlds. Assainate senator 1 ( this would perhaps cause the secruity of the system to drop) or for a change in the political sitiuation from stable to slightly unstable ( this would affect population trade goods space traffic, other missions offered to and out of the system)