signal aspen
To spice things up and offer refreshing breaks from normal HS gameplay, it might be nice to offer ~monthly events where the gameplay of one or more star types is drastically different.
The event would be completely optional, so players who want to just do normal-rules RS/BLS would be able to progress normally, but there would be some rewards for participating in the event (not too different from BLS participation rewards). The events would last ~3 days or so.
The rules would be tweaked versions of normal in-game gameplay, like:
- BLS weapons are 50% weaker, but modules have their damage output increased by 50% and their cooldowns reduced by 25%.
- RS Solitude is replaced by Unity, so everyone will have to stick together for maximum damage output. (It would be nice to make a battleship brigade like in pre-DN HS). Once per day, Artifacts retrieved from this special-rules RS get a 50% bonus.
- I dunno how White Star events would work.
- Miner-only Blue Stars. BLS asteroids now contain Hydrogen, and Miners would need to mine and use Hydrogen Rocket and similar to last as long as possible without getting hit.
These events would likely require minimal playtesting (they are broken by design) and serve mainly to provide a refreshing change of scenery.
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