Quests

We want to add quest to the game - from easy to hard

let's brainstorm here, which could be the achievements. (maybe some more ideas from the featurelist)

tutorial

• start with preconstructed fleets
• go into vacation-mode with a cloaking sphere
• research all colony researches
• research 10 different shiptypes
• use an eye-in-the sky with the pyramid device
• send a probe there
• build a chrono mine
• build an alliance-network
• use transwarp-gates
• cloak your fleet
• use a wormhole
• add a player to your com-list
• recycle some ships
• use the automated production queue, in-game-mailing, forum, IRC, Wiki , GNN-news magazine
• change planet description with picture and homepage and sound packages
• end newbie-protection

easy

• win a battle with your defensive battle station
• win a battle without your defensive battle station
• use DSPs while battling
• colonize a planet/conquer a colony
• use a wormhole
• collect a chrono pod
• pay a pirate with chrono pods
• build an MTWG
• for each fleet-setup or construction-aid-cards research all needed technologies
• research all techs of your race
• get ships from neutral planets
• use 100 times a wormhole or TWG -> "sub-space mage"
• recycle 1.000.000 ships -> "junkyard master"
• build a wormhole

medium

• destroy another wormhole
• use scrambler while battling
• hunt down the IT of the travellers
• Steal the flag of another alliance
• discover an unexplored pre-warp-world
• have each one role separately in an alliance: minister of communication, minister of war, flag commander
• use ground troopers

hard

• be the leader of an alliance with 10 players
• win 5 battles in a row
• win a war against another alliance
• steal a chrono pod from another alliance
• drop ships from a flying fleet into a stationary one.
• hold the black hole for x nr of days.
• finish your era with x amount of points (this could range from easy to extremely hard. maybe from 5000 points to 200000 points)
• espionage the alliance attack code of another alliance and use it in battle

specials

• homepage awards
• become newbie helper
• invent a new tech, that is placed on neutral planets
• become translator admin for your language
• become forum moderator
• construct a preconstructed fleet or construction-aid-card
• include your own javascript in IE or greasemonkey

galaxy quests

• wormhole raid - pirates get points for destroying wormholes and colonists for building new ones
• special points for hunting IT
• a supernova evolves at x/z/z - all players together have to bring 1.000 lowriders to condemn it - productiontime of lowriders is set to 1h for several days

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brainstorm

and a rating system for it . like novice, commander , admiral, grand admiral etc.

this could be motivating for newbies...