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Re: Age of Ash (development flying high! some nice skins on p.
« Reply #337 on: January 25, 2007, 10:58:19 pm » Reply with quote 1. For every dialog, there will be at least 2 places where extra dialog options are opened up by having DIFERENT KINDS OF SHIPS OR UPGRADES. (and you will NOT be told they are 'special' dialogs) For instance, SPECIAL SCANER COULD GIVE YOU OBJECTIVES LIKE GET CLOSE TO CERTAIN SPOT AND HOLD GROUND FOR 4 MINUTES, IF INSTEAD YOU HAVE A GOOD FIGHTER YOUR PART COULD BE TO ENGAGE FIGHTERS AND PROTECT THE SCANING SHIP, ETC. YOU WOULD PLAY THE PART YOU ARE MORE CAPABLE TO ACOMPLISH.
2. Where it makes sense, alternative ways to finish quests or even circumvent quests...but not usually in any obvious way. This will be the hardest tim implement, due to coding. YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO THE OPOSITE THING FROM YOUR MISSION ORDERS AND GET A NEW BRANCH OF THE STORY. fOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU ARE ORDERED TO DESTROY A SHIP, YOU COULD INSTEAD APROACH IT AND TELL THE CAPTAIN YOU WERE ORDERED TO DO SO BUT WONT DO AND FROM THERE GET NEW MISSIONS.
5. Try to avoid starting quests in obvious ways where it looks like HERE IS A QUEST, GO TO A AND DO B.
6. Have some quests go in unexpected directions or lead into more complex metaquests of some sort.
7. Every dialog will have at least one choice where you will only get one response or the other from them. Not necessarily something of consequence, just little blurbs here and there - if you replay the game you may get a somewhat different feeling of conversation overall by making slightly different choices.
And of course there could be others, if you think of something please post them.
