Morty_jhones wrote: ↑Wed Jul 07, 2021 5:29 am
yea they did have a strange way of looking at mishions initaly, but if you pay atention that changed in the later disipher releces as it became more aperent that the show was runing down and there were no plans to continue, thus limmiting there material.
There are 27 missions which have "attempt and complete" alternate requirements. Decipher produced 25 of those missions. Of those, 17 were produced in
Call to Arms. So it is true that they tended to move away from missions with alternate requirements.
That trend partly comes from the fact that Call to Arms introduced the Borg and the Dominion, the two affiliations most likely to work directly against other affiliations. At the same time, I believe Decipher realized these missions had significant drawbacks. The space taken up by the alternate requirements leaves little room for other abilities. And from a story standpoint, these missions do little to nothing to explain why they have the alternate requirements. The Borg aren't actually trying to
Destroy Transwarp Hubs with those alternate requirements, for example.
Morty_jhones wrote: ↑Wed Jul 07, 2021 5:29 amjust sweeping it unde the table as, ho thats how they did it then... ignores the strange paradox's caused by trying to continue the game and not being willing to ask questions of the game desine.
this is one of many odities caused by trying to add to the system whill not concidering or revewing the consequnces of it.
On the contrary, the CC
did ask questions of the game design. Specifically, they asked if the way Decipher had always designed missions was the best way. And the answer was no. The new (as of 2013) way of designing missions provides a lot of advantages. We can create different missions which happened in the same location, as with
Empok Nor (Deadly Salvage) and
Empok Nor (Negotiate Prisoner Exchange). And we have more room to show opposing goals for different affiliations, such as with
Ba'ku Planet (Safeguard Civilization) and
Ba'ku Planet (Collect Metaphasic Particles).
Morty_jhones wrote: ↑Wed Jul 07, 2021 5:29 amthe fact that this persona of the mishion DROPS a faction from atempting it is just one of them.
this mishion should have been eather only or . the fact that it is not is what caused my query in the 1st place.
Why? The strained negotiations were between Kilana and Sisko. They are
and
respectively, so both of those affiliations make sense. While the Klingons may have had an interest in salvaging a Dominion ship*, they probably would have preferred to battle with the Jem'hadar rather than to negotiate with Kilana.
*Adding
to the original mission is a bit of creative liberty on Decipher's part in the first place. Worf is most definitely
in this episode, so no
personnel were present.
"Save your strength. There'll be another time. The princess - you have to take care of her. You hear me?" -Han Solo to Chewbacca, ESB