Scenario Surf's Up

[Xansta]

A scenario similar to Waves with some additions:

• Mini missions to improve station services by providing goods
• Random variations in wave type
  • Clear wave by hunting down enemy base, or they'll keep coming
  • Clear wave by hunting down enemy base protected by defense platforms
  • Enemies attack in formation, kill them all
  • Normal wave, kill them all
  • Randomly get an asteroid storm for a wave
• Configuration options
  • May select an "older" player ship type at the start
    • Player Cruiser
    • Player Missile Cruiser
    • Player Fighter
  • Starting enemy ship strength: Easy, Normal (the default), Hard, Extreme, Quixotic
  • Pace (the speed of the enemy ships): 10% - 50% faster
• May interact with transports to get goods for the mini missions
• Use scenario utilities:
  • Stations use selections from the place stations utility
  • Player ships get named from a pool of random ship names
  • CPU ships are named using the generate call sign
  • CPU ship diversification utility used for additional CPU ships
• Some CPU ships drop warp jammers. Some warp jammers have additional adverse qualities
  • Piranha F12 - warp jammer field damages player beam systems
  • Farco 11 - plain warp jammer
  • Ranus U - warp jammer field damages player beam systems
  • Stalker Q7 - warp jammer field damages player missile systems
  • Stalker R7 - warp jammer field damages player missile systems
  • Cucaracha - plain warp jammer
  • Atlantis Y42 - plain warp jammer
  • Starhammer V - plain warp jammer
• Service availability divided between starting stations giving more incentive to protect the stations during the scenario
• Player ship name banner on stations to facilitate more than one player ship participating
• GM button to end the scenario early (appears after the scenario runs for 15 minutes)
  • Warning message to players
  • 30 second countdown timer added to some consoles
  • Odin spawned near friendly station(s) after timer countdown is complete
• Station information added to science database once the station has been contacted
• Closing screen with mission statistics:
  • number of completed waves and the enemy difficulty setting
  • number of player ships deployed during the mission
  • duration of the mission
  • the advance wave setting (if any)
  • the pace setting (if not normal)

[Xansta]

Tested at MagFest in January