Highpop gamemode: visitors

[Screemonster]

Okay so there's a code bounty out on gamemodes but I lack the ability to code a gamemode but an idea popped into my head the other day

Essentially: Babylon 5 station. The station and the crew are there, but there are also one or more visiting ships that are going to dock at the station. The crew for these ships is pulled in the same way that nuke ops are, spawning them on their ship at roundstart.

The crew of the visiting ship are given an objective. This objective may be benign, or it may be antagonistic. This is known to the ship crew but not the station, and it's revealed in the end-of-round report - for instance, assisting the visitors with a benign objective is considered a crew (& ship) victory, while letting them accomplish an antagonistic objective is considered a loss for the station crew.

Just to spice up the benign objectives, it may or may not be paired with traitors, pulled from either the ship or station crew. Was the guy on the visiting ship acting on his own when he shot the station captain in the face? Are they really here to assassinate key members of the crew, and their stated goal is just a cover? Is he just there to sabotage the ship's mission by sowing suspicion?
To really mix things up, make a possible antagonistic objective "detonate the disguised nuclear device" so people don't just meta like "it's visitors, so we don't need to guard the disk", ho ho ho. Meanwhile, even benign visitors may have objectives to not allow certain things to be taken from their ship, so they have a reason not to let the tide in.

tl;dr, a ship's coming, and it could be a team traitor mode or it could just be friendlies with regular traitors as usual, or it could be stealth ops, or who the fuck knows

[WarbossLincoln]

I like the idea. You'd have to hammer down some policy before it's released though.

Are the visitors antags even if they're on a benevolent mission? If not that needs to be exceedingly clear in game. Something like big red text stating your antagonist objectives as a hostile visitor crew with "complete these objectives at all cost" and green text for benevolent crew with something like "you are not an antagonist, normal escalation applies". Something where a benevolent visitor crew would treat their objectives like station goals. Work towards them but escalation applies to how you achieve them. You can retaliate to people actively inhibiting your goals with proportional force(beat them up if they're getting in the way, kill them if they use violence to stop you).

I think making sure that benevolent visitors are not antags would be necessary to stop the crew from just killing all of them at the first sign of trouble since 'muh valids'. The crew would basically have to treat them like any other crewman, respond according to our escalation rules until you discover that the visitor(s) in question are antags.

However your situation of a lone antag on a benevolent crew shooting someone opens up a new policy can of worms. Lets say an antag visitor on a benevolent team murders a head of staff. Can the captain order all the visitors off the station? Can he have them shot as a possible threat? At a minimum he could have them all arrested and searched for weapons. If this situation arises the visitor crew is going to escalate back. At what point could you safely assume that a visiting crew is antagonistic as a whole? These are all great potential IC situations but we have to be realistic about how people behave here. The crew is going to look for the bare minimum excuse to say "welp, the visitors are probably antags, time for valids", it's going to devolve into a bloodbath, then if the visitors were not all antags there's going to be a storm of ahelps from the ones who did not do anything remotely hostile themselves.

I think it's a great idea, but this needs a lot of discussion. If a coder wants to take this on I think there should be a round table with admins about how the game mode should work, agree on some policy, and work with the coder on what if any code requirements need to be put in place to ease the issues.

Addendum: if some coders decide to take this on they should decide on a minimum viable product that can be released as early as possible and then add more features from there. Get a prototype of the round onto a public test server and let people try it out. See what issues arise and how best to handle it. Let admins see if this is going to be a nightmare of policy and also see how the playerbase reacts to the mode and how the admins want to control the policy on it.

[wesoda25]

This is an incredible idea that escapes basically every gamemode we have of presenting an antag and saying: “Its valid go kill it”. Actually seems like a fun semi-high rp game mode. I’ve seen numerous events similar in idea to this, so the admins could probably share some insight.

I’m conflicted as to how you would have the antagonist role the seperate crews play out. I think its an awesome idea for traitors from both sides attempting so sew discontent between the crews and cause a war between their respective command and security departments. Or, the incoming crew with antagonist objectives ranging from positive to theft to murder. Tbh it’d be best to keep multiple types, as you said, so that the nature of the round type is always left in shadow.

All in all its a good change of pace to our modern game modes and fills the hole left gangs, clock cult, and (I guess?) shadowling.

[kevinz000]

Seems very good.

[Dr_bee]

So basically centcom inspector admin events but in full coded game mode form? It would be pretty neat, but requiring RP in game modes has not really worked in the past (Devil mode for example).

[Screemonster]

Having it coded/weighted as multiple seperate but similar modes might be easier, given that the potential gamut of "hostile ship" "friendly ship with traitors" "friendly ship in extended" "hostile ship with maybe a traitor or two on the crew side just so people can't meta that the ship must be friendly because we caught the janitor with an emag" and so on

policy of where the valids for escalation lie would be a tricky one but ultimately it'd boil down to similar to other situations where a nonantag murdering another nonantag is allowed, like if a changeling commits a very visible crime as you and hides and you later get valid'd, nobody's gonna get banned for it even though both the killer and the victim were nonantags.

[Stickymayhem]

I'm going to run this as an event a couple times to see how it goes and offer some feedback. It seems very simple to set up as an event, I'll just whip up a custom white shuttle.

[Farquaar]

It might be prudent to give hostile visitor ships a unified cover story that matches a benign objective. A small number of visitors could easily make something up and stick to it, but it might aid people new to the gamemode who don't know all the potential objectives in blending in properly.

I have a feeling that the detective and lawyer will get a kick out of this gamemode for sure. Definitely looking forward to trying a prototype round.

[DemonFiren]

incredible idea

yes, but

semi-high rp game mode

inevitably leads to

“Its valid go kill it”

[WarbossLincoln]

It might be prudent to give hostile visitor ships a unified cover story that matches a benign objective. A small number of visitors could easily make something up and stick to it, but it might aid people new to the gamemode who don't know all the potential objectives in blending in properly.

I have a feeling that the detective and lawyer will get a kick out of this gamemode for sure. Definitely looking forward to trying a prototype round.

That's a good idea. Randomize a fake benign objective that's in every visitor's memories to help them all stick to the same overall story.

Sticky, are you going to post a possible time for running the experiment cause I'd like to try it out if I'm free whenever you do it.

[Stickymayhem]

It might be prudent to give hostile visitor ships a unified cover story that matches a benign objective. A small number of visitors could easily make something up and stick to it, but it might aid people new to the gamemode who don't know all the potential objectives in blending in properly.

I have a feeling that the detective and lawyer will get a kick out of this gamemode for sure. Definitely looking forward to trying a prototype round.

That's a good idea. Randomize a fake benign objective that's in every visitor's memories to help them all stick to the same overall story.

Sticky, are you going to post a possible time for running the experiment cause I'd like to try it out if I'm free whenever you do it.

Uhhhh keep an eye on #events-workshop-general I guess

Or become a patreon

[WarbossLincoln]

>become a patreon

I might actually do that. I've been thinking of backing a couple patreon funded things I frequent. Mostly this and InrangeTV

[Stickymayhem]

>become a patreon

I might actually do that. I've been thinking of backing a couple patreon funded things I frequent. Mostly this and InrangeTV

Well here it is bud https://www.patreon.com/stickymayhem

I just got over some dumb patreon editing bug but OOC dweebs asked if I had one so I made it.

I'll spruce it up with a video at some point

[SpaceManiac]

If/when you run this, please report back. I like this idea and might take a stab at coding it if it looks like it will go over well with players.

[Stickymayhem]

I ran it once and it didnt go great. Partly for shuttlecode reasons but also a couple of the non antag visitors just started murderboning. I'll give it another go with better people.

[Dr_bee]

Visitor story idea, time travelers. crewmembers from the future come to solve a problem, and have to make sure their past selves survive or they dust. Primary antagonistic force would be a chrono legionnaire, or other time travlers.

dont think to hard about it, just give them a protect objective for their past selves and another objective to set right what went wrong.

[Jaredfogle]

They all have the one, same objective? What are some examples of objectives that are game defining enough to where this would warrant a gamemode?

[Stickymayhem]

They all have the one, same objective? What are some examples of objectives that are game defining enough to where this would warrant a gamemode?

The one I ran had the objective to escape on the emergency shuttle.

However, several of the crew were carriers for a horrible disease, so centcom would want them quarantined and left behind, while they selfishly wanted to escape regardless of spreading the infection.

It worked out alright.

[aradsten]

One objective could be that tourists are arriving and you must provide them with food,lodging and a tour. They could secretly be traitors wich would make sec paranoid and so on.

It could also be space entrepreneurs coming to sell bizare product like a "gold honker™"!

Or space refugees

Or an invading force of clowns

Or maybe if the station is in a state of emergency the red cross could arrive at the station

its pretty wide tbh

[Jaredfogle]

One objective could be that tourists are arriving and you must provide them with food,lodging and a tour. They could secretly be traitors wich would make sec paranoid and so on.

It could also be space entrepreneurs coming to sell bizare product like a "gold honker™"!

Or space refugees

Or an invading force of clowns

Or maybe if the station is in a state of emergency the red cross could arrive at the station

its pretty wide tbh

I think I'm starting to get the picture, yeah. I'm not sure how some of those would work code-wise considering they're more RP oriented, though.

Also a lot of those ideas seem better as a random event rather than a gamemode? Perhaps this could work as both?

[aradsten]

Also a lot of those ideas seem better as a random event rather than a gamemode? Perhaps this could work as both?

Yea i mostly see it as a way to add more game too the game you know. Doesent matter what you would call it.

And you dont have to code everything. Sometimes rp is just what you need to spice the game up

[Luke Cox]

You could do so much cool shit with this. There would be actual P A R A N O I A. Really hope someone decides to pick this up.

[Screemonster]

Yeah, the thing I'm drawing a blank on is what sort of objectives they might need, like...

Their engine is broken, they need help from the station to repair/replace it.
They have stuff to sell. Acquire credits. Don't sell their stuff at a loss or let it get stolen. (dunno how best to do this 'cause most items don't have a "credit value" attached)
A bunch of the crew have some sort of medical issue that requires treatment in the station's medbay. Possibly a virus. Objective is simply to keep the (non-traitor) ship crew alive until the end of the round.
They're literally just stopping off to refuel and don't actually have an objective. (extended only)
They've been told to say they're stopping off to refuel, but have a secret goal to pass some documents to NT. The documents must be in the possession of a non-traitor crewmember when the shuttle docks at central command. Stationbound traitors simply receive the mission "foil the visiting ship's plans" so announcing the existence of these secret plans over open comms is probably a bad idea if you don't want to run the risk of the captain getting slipped and the documents tossed into space.

[Jaredfogle]

Yeah, the thing I'm drawing a blank on is what sort of objectives they might need, like...

Their engine is broken, they need help from the station to repair/replace it.
They have stuff to sell. Acquire credits. Don't sell their stuff at a loss or let it get stolen. (dunno how best to do this 'cause most items don't have a "credit value" attached)
A bunch of the crew have some sort of medical issue that requires treatment in the station's medbay. Possibly a virus. Objective is simply to keep the (non-traitor) ship crew alive until the end of the round.
They're literally just stopping off to refuel and don't actually have an objective. (extended only)
They've been told to say they're stopping off to refuel, but have a secret goal to pass some documents to NT. The documents must be in the possession of a non-traitor crewmember when the shuttle docks at central command. Stationbound traitors simply receive the mission "foil the visiting ship's plans" so announcing the existence of these secret plans over open comms is probably a bad idea if you don't want to run the risk of the captain getting slipped and the documents tossed into space.

I really like the idea and am possibly interested in coding it (especially if you can come up with more ideas for objectives), but again, what makes this better as a gamemode than a random event?

[Not-Dorsidarf]

the stuff-to-sell thing could work like pirates, in that they need to leave the station with more value than they arrive with?

mid-round minor ships could be:
-here to deliver a pizza to three specific crewmembers
-here to pickup a perma prisoner for transfer to centcomm (possibly leading to shenaningans if sec dont have any... yet)
-here to obtain weed from botany, and they have a briefcase of cash to accomplish this.
-here to have the chaplain hold a funeral for their dead crewmate

[Luke Cox]

Yeah, the thing I'm drawing a blank on is what sort of objectives they might need, like...

Their engine is broken, they need help from the station to repair/replace it.
They have stuff to sell. Acquire credits. Don't sell their stuff at a loss or let it get stolen. (dunno how best to do this 'cause most items don't have a "credit value" attached)
A bunch of the crew have some sort of medical issue that requires treatment in the station's medbay. Possibly a virus. Objective is simply to keep the (non-traitor) ship crew alive until the end of the round.
They're literally just stopping off to refuel and don't actually have an objective. (extended only)
They've been told to say they're stopping off to refuel, but have a secret goal to pass some documents to NT. The documents must be in the possession of a non-traitor crewmember when the shuttle docks at central command. Stationbound traitors simply receive the mission "foil the visiting ship's plans" so announcing the existence of these secret plans over open comms is probably a bad idea if you don't want to run the risk of the captain getting slipped and the documents tossed into space.

I really like the idea and am possibly interested in coding it (especially if you can come up with more ideas for objectives), but again, what makes this better as a gamemode than a random event?

What makes this better than an event is scope. An event shouldn't monopolize the entire round. They're meant to be little fluff things to make long, monotonous rounds more interesting. The idea here, from what I gather from the OP, is that multiple groups of visitors will be on the station simultaneously (let's say groups of 3-5 a ship, and 3-4 ships total). Some of them will be benevolent, some benign, some malicious, and the crew will have no way of knowing which is which, or how many hostile groups there are. For additional fuckery, you could make only a single member of a visiting party a traitor, and watch the crew decide whether they should lynch the whole group. You could go as far as to spawn a few regular traitors among the station crew, make it "visitor + traitor" mode. It's a brilliant idea that creates a paranoia laden RP-like experience through little to no actual RP.

As for objectives, I got you fam. They can fall into four categories: Benevolent, benign, solo traitor, team traitor. These are all mechanically enforceable, but flavor objectives are always a possibility

Benevolent
Humanitarian aid crews who are there to help. Their goal is to assist the crew in any way possible.

• Ensure that a crew member escapes alive
• Ensure that [actual traitor] is in your ship's prison cell at round end
• Ensure that x % of the crew is alive at round end
• Allow x number of crew members to escape in your ship at the end

Benign
These guys are mostly concerned with obtaining supplies and keeping their ship safe. Harmless, as long as you don't try to plunder their ship.

• Obtain x amount of plasma to fuel your ship
• Build [machine] on your ship
• Obtain [non-sensitive item]
• Protect [valuable item] on your ship

Solo traitor
Saboteurs acting as sleeper agents in otherwise benevolent or hostile crews. They have access to an uplink to obtain supplies.

• Ensure that their crew does not escape
• Assassinate [station crew member]
• Steal [sensitive station item]

Malevolent
Organized crews who are come to the station with malevolent intentions. Items required for their objectives, along with some weapons, will spawn on their ship. How they distribute/conceal these items is up to them.

• Assassinate [entire rival crew or multiple station crew members]
• Destroy the station's supermatter crystal
• Escape with X amount of space cash from the vault
• Upload a hacked law via a provided board AND steal the AI

We've already got several visiting ships coded in the game from admin events. Speaking of which, I've seen a visiting medical ship event a lot recently that's been well received and always seems to run smoothly. One ship would start docked, while the others would be in space very close by (visible from the station). Yes, they have to negotiate the use of one dock. Here are a few other ship ideas:

• Medical ship
• Cargo ship
• Military ship
• Party ship
• Research ship

The beauty of OP's idea is that this mode will create constant tension and paranoia between the station crew and the visiting crews. Which crew is malevolent? Is that one visitor you caught trying to kill someone just a lone wolf, or is his whole crew out to get us? Why won't that one crew let us board their ship? Are they hiding something?

[Screemonster]

Oh wow. The best part of some of these is that they can be mixed and matched for extra paranoia, like giving them a benevolent objective and the objective to protect some blatantly-contraband item on board their ship to give them a reason to not let security aboard. Or to kidnap non-traitor crew members. Or a malevolent ship with the goal of exfiltrating as many traitors as possible (traitors have to complete their escape alive goals, being on their ship counts), and so on.

[Dr_bee]

Making the visitor ships count as escape sources for traitors would be neat as well, especially if they leave before the emergency shuttle. Stowing away or bribing your way off the station with your objective without security knowing would be a neat method to obtain greentext.

[Luke Cox]

The White Ship already counts as an escape shuttle, so I would imagine that coding visitor ships to act the same way would be trivial.

As for the ships themselves, I have a few more in-depth ideas. Tying specific objectives to specific ships would probably be a pain in the ass, so I think it would be better for the crews to treat it as a loadout they can use creatively to achieve charitable, self-serving, or harmful objectives for benevolent, benign, or malevolent crews respectively.

• Freighter: Similar to meta's new white ship. Most of the ship is occupied by a large cargo bay. Crates in the cargo bay may hold some construction supplies and other various utility items. Harmful items are provided to malevolent crews. Crewed by a foreman and cargo techs.
• Medical Frigate: A hospital ship with advanced medical equipment, including an advanced surgery room, pandemic machine, chem dispenser, and cloner. A virus crate and harmful advanced surgery discs are provided to malevolent crews. Crewed by doctors.
• Research Vessel: R&D in space. Includes an abbreviated xenobio setup, exosuit fabricator, and a small toxins lab. Illegal tech is provided to malevolent crews. Crewed by scientists and roboticists.
• Party Ship: Booze, space drugs, and a disco! The bastard child of the emergency escape bar and disco inferno. Hard drugs and poisoned drinks are provided to malevolent crews. Crewed by a bartender and party-goers
• Pilgrim Convoy: Temple ship carrying pilgrims. Most of the ship is dedicated to a large chapel. Demonic-themed weapons are provided to malevolent crews. Crewed by a chaplain and pilgrims.
• Prisoner Transport: Spess jail. Ship includes a more fleshed out brig, as well as a small armory with nonlethal weapons. Lethal weapons and lethal injection syringes are provided to malevolent crews. Crewed by a warden and guards.

Of course, every ship should have basic facilities like a medical room, engine room, etc. All malevolent crews should get some randomized weapons in addition to their ship-specific items.

[Farquaar]

mid-round minor ships could be:
-here to deliver a pizza to three specific crewmembers

I really, really want this to happen

[Luke Cox]

mid-round minor ships could be:
-here to deliver a pizza to three specific crewmembers

I really, really want this to happen

Mama Miku's Delivery Pizza: The sector's biggest delivery pizza chain. Named for its CEO, who was ousted after making controversial remarks about lizardpeople. She works menial jobs for Nanotrasen to this day. Major features include a kitchen and dining room. Malicious crews get pizza bombs.

[DemonFiren]

>miku
no references

also pizza guys need suspiciously ops-like uniform

[bman]

>naming a pizza chain after miku, who hasn't even made one server-crashing pizza in her life
alfredo italiano is where it's at my nigger

[Stickymayhem]

Ok I've run a couple more and they've been going fairly well. I've basically expanded the concept to "Group of not-immediately hostile people arrive" and it's actually promoted some really awesome RP.

We've had a private security firm led by a Quartermaster looking to requisition supplies from the station, which went great until a xeno threat led to them assisting the station while simultaneously pilfering abandoned apartments for their requested supplies.

We've had a group of military synths disguised as russians entering the station looking to grab supermatter slivers and nuke cores for power sources. The captain was determined to be friendly with the 'Russians' until an investigative engineer took pictures of their hidden synthetic birthing bay and creepy organosynth experimental creature. They brought the pictures back to the Captain and the Russians went into hiding, before mostly being found out and getting wrecked.

I'll be sure to try some of the subtler ones too, I've run a couple of Luke's suggestions but a problem at the moment seems to be that if the crew don't have a very clear, often somewhat antagonistic objective, they tend to get antsy and murders get out of control.

[Luke Cox]

If this ever got implemented as a gamemode, I would imagine that the crews would be informed in no uncertain terms whether they are benevolent, benign or malicious on their notes screen. As far as policy is concerned, I think you could apply existing policy to the visiting ships fairly easily.

Benevolent: Must behave as though they are part of the crew, per their completely selfless objectives. Shouldn't harm the crew for any reason other than immediate self defense against an unjust assault.
Benign: Lavaland ghost role basically. Free to mess with the crew within what would be expected of something like a free golem, animal doctor, etc but can't go full murderbone.
Malevolent:Traitor plant: Can do whatever they want

As for the crew, they can treat visitors with suspicion, but they can't murder them unless they're proven to be antagonistic. If they're confirmed malicious/traitor, they're valid salad.

[Nabski]

I did a fun visitor ship the other night, with the crew being a single AI. They had a variety of different BORIS module'd borgs. It was on Terry and I only had one ghost to work with.

[Lumbermancer]

Ok I've run.

I did

So is it supposed to be an automatic system that can kick in autonomously, or a semi-automatic admin-button type thing? Because I'm getting mixed messages here.

[Stickymayhem]

Ok I've run.

I did

So is it supposed to be an automatic system that can kick in autonomously, or a semi-automatic admin-button type thing? Because I'm getting mixed messages here.

We're running it as events until someone bothers to code it. We're basically manually running the 'gamemode' to see how it feels and it's turned out fun most of the time.

It works both as a 'side-antag' style midround event and as an entire gamemode itself during extended.

[Luke Cox]

It would be very disappointing for something with as much potential as this to get relegated to yet another side antag position. Sufficiently fleshed out, this could easily be a new gamemode. God knows we could use some fresh new ones.

[DemonFiren]

whatever happened to datum antags

[PKPenguin321]

whatever happened to datum antags

Perpetually in the process of being done for free by volunteers whenever they feel like it

[Stickymayhem]

whatever happened to datum antags

Perpetually in the process of being done for free by volunteers whenever they feel like it

how dare they

[Dr_bee]

Por que no los dos?

Having random visitors as well as a game mode version isnt a bad idea, honestly that should be done with almost all antags, random traitors 45 minutes into extended when?

[Pizzatiger]

I feel like this Visitor Gamemode could be the unifying force to perfect Datum Antags. You could make Visitors the main game mode with literally every other game mode as side antagonists to the visitors.

This could also give visitors getting rare objectives based on the side antagonists that spawned that round such as the visitors being rev heads or they are a bunch of undercover exorcists sent to investigate the station. What if the visitors were Centcom backed police force sent to help prevent any nuclear team from getting the disk or what if they WERE the nuke op team

[somerandomguy]

I feel like this Visitor Gamemode could be the unifying force to perfect Datum Antags. You could make Visitors the main game mode with literally every other game mode as side antagonists to the visitors.

This could also give visitors getting rare objectives based on the side antagonists that spawned that round such as the visitors being rev heads or they are a bunch of undercover exorcists sent to investigate the station. What if the visitors were Centcom backed police force sent to help prevent any nuclear team from getting the disk or what if they WERE the nuke op team

Disk inspectors 2: electric boogaloo

[Luke Cox]

Personally I think datum antags are a case of re-inventing something that nobody asked to have re-invented that will result in a complete and utter clusterfuck of rounds, but visitors could work well with or without them. Without, it's just a dedicated "visitors + traitors" mode that spawns visiting crews and a handful of traitors that crews can roll too. With, you could easily make visitors spawn alongside other antags. Hell, it's probably the only combination of antags that I can see playing well.

Making visitors an event/side antag would be a bad idea. It should be a dedicated game mode.

[SpaceManiac]

Picking this up, if anyone has shuttle maps they want me to use for testing please post or forum PM.

Planning to make it possible to summon a visitor ship as an event, but the juice is in the gamemode, something like 1-3 visiting ships of 3-5 crew each, with possible traitors both among the visitors and among the station with visitation-related objectives, plus other round-significant stuff like adding a station goal to help a particular visitor crew or bringing in new crews slowly over time.

Really liking the objective and crew ideas posted in this thread so far.

[Stickymayhem]

Picking this up, if anyone has shuttle maps they want me to use for testing please post or forum PM.

Planning to make it possible to summon a visitor ship as an event, but the juice is in the gamemode, something like 1-3 visiting ships of 3-5 crew each, with possible traitors both among the visitors and among the station with visitation-related objectives, plus other round-significant stuff like adding a station goal to help a particular visitor crew or bringing in new crews slowly over time.

Really liking the objective and crew ideas posted in this thread so far.

YEEEEEEEES

I'll be in touch with my visitor ships. Give me a couple days.

[Luke Cox]

Picking this up, if anyone has shuttle maps they want me to use for testing please post or forum PM.

Planning to make it possible to summon a visitor ship as an event, but the juice is in the gamemode, something like 1-3 visiting ships of 3-5 crew each, with possible traitors both among the visitors and among the station with visitation-related objectives, plus other round-significant stuff like adding a station goal to help a particular visitor crew or bringing in new crews slowly over time.

Really liking the objective and crew ideas posted in this thread so far.

Only thing I'm going to say is make it so that entire crews have a chance to be hostile.

[Stickymayhem]

Picking this up, if anyone has shuttle maps they want me to use for testing please post or forum PM.

Planning to make it possible to summon a visitor ship as an event, but the juice is in the gamemode, something like 1-3 visiting ships of 3-5 crew each, with possible traitors both among the visitors and among the station with visitation-related objectives, plus other round-significant stuff like adding a station goal to help a particular visitor crew or bringing in new crews slowly over time.

Really liking the objective and crew ideas posted in this thread so far.

Only thing I'm going to say is make it so that entire crews have a chance to be hostile.

We're starting with 3 shuttles and 5 scenarios each

2 benevolent, 1 neutral, 2 malicious for each shuttle type.

Shuttle types are cobbled together refugee ship, NT Security/Prison ship and regular generic cargo ship

purpose of this is so you can't fully guess if they're rogue based on the shuttle type.