Hey!

The first post was right. When I started reading your story I thought of The Dig!

Here's a spin of question: Where can I find the Dig?? Pleeeaaaassseee e-mail me or something! I really really really want it! I love those cartoonish click and think games! I played a demo of the Dig hundred of years ago (yeah, before I was born ) But I never bought it *sob* *sniff* Is there an abandonware site that has it? My mail is kabooomm@hotmail.com

Now back to your plot!

I thought it was a really good idea! You said in your first post that it wanted to test the physical and psycological powers of a species. That explains why it wants to "kill" you. I mean, if it can travel really far (I don't know how far) it has superior technology. And it doesn't take much to hurt an human being. Of course, if you decide that this is the first time the "probe" visits earth and encounters humans it wouldn't know HOW to kill it because it doesn't know what makes a human "tick". But something as easy as a person tripping over and falling to the ground hurting his head would give the fact that a blow to the head does seem to "disturbe" the human because it suddenly stopped doing what it was doing and sat down yelling or crying (showing emotions) and takin a special note to the blow.

Throughout the game it would try to "kill" you, but it doesn't know how. So in the beginning it might assume that a human has high mental powers (telekenises) and use that against you. But a human doesn't (not much explored at least) so those "weapons" would only give you a little headache. But through out the game, the character gets hurt, shows intelligence (picking up things and using them as weapons, opening "doors", etc.) and reveals much of itself. But at the same time the "probe" is doing a more refined medical approach on the captured speciment, the captain. Revealing more ways about what makes you "tick", and what stops you from "ticking"...


Is the probe "evil"? Does it really want to kill them? Or just find out what _does_ kill and try to find a "cure" for it??? Like a big hospital/research ship?

I've read somewhere that the only common thing intelligent beings would have would be _logic_. An intelligent creature must have an _logic_ way of thinking, or at least mathematical. "If I do this, that will happen" Maybe that isn't true, maybe our way of _logic_ is different from another race. But I still think that the biggest logical thing would be "for every action, there is a REaction". So the ship could have some more refined way of finding intelligent life. I mean, the idea of a hole in the side was very good! If it was a ship that was not meant to be entered. But this one is! Wasn't it the idéa to capture species (for whatever purpose)? Then it would have some way of "opening a door" to let the creature in, or _force_ it in somehow. If you decide to make a morphing ship, you could do this two ways. Either just let it "open", a part of the wall just "opens" (in a spooky kind of way) so that the explorers just can walk in. Or it could have seen humans before and actually make a "door", a wooden door or something else familiar. This would really spoke with your head!

I could go on and on it seems huh? But I'll stop for now and wait for your comments

EDIT - accidently made the whole text italic *annoying*

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Edited by - Seriema on July 20, 2001 4:27:12 AM

Are you going for story or 110% shoot-everything-that-moves?

Because... well it's too simple if you want a good story, but it's OK if you just want a reason to throw in some characters that's gonna blast robots all day long.

By the way, how good is a trained astronaut in combat? Just thinking of your team composition... Both ranged and close-combat? I think if Earth suspected that it was dangerous, and technology is that advanced that "normal" people (people not especially trained to _just_ live through the space flight like we have now, with all G-forces blabla) can travel using spaceships, then Earth would send some militias too! And if the probe looks advanced, not just like a rock (The Dig). Then maybe one or two engineers would be needed. Scientists are rearly sent into space, astronauts collect what's needed for them. But if the technology allows for "comfortable" space travel then maybe a scientist is part of the team?

PS. _ANYONE_ know where I can get the game "The Dig"????

EDIT - Who says a 110% shooter can't have a great story??

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Edited by - Seriema on July 22, 2001 9:57:47 AM

*lol* that''s a lose-lose situation! 8)

As I said, the dangers should increase. But with an logic. Weapons that might kill one race, may not be as effective to another. Like a special sound that makes the bones rattle of ONE species, just irritates a human, etc... Still, I don''t agree with the hole on the side for 2 reasons.
1) it''s not logical that a realy big spaceship with probably a _central computer system_ would go berserk if you cut of it''s right arm (read: take a piece away), now is it?
2) if it''s sent out to find "capable" subjects, then the hole only allows "stupid" races to enter. Like a space-fly, or something. While a door or somekind of logical entrance proves intelligence.

I just thought of something!! Will they find other creatures on board? Free someone from a stacis field and they become an ally? Or they could just help you out for a few moments before they get freezed again?

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I think having aliens on board will be very cool if you actually characterize them and describe their culture(s), and let them be NPCs or talkative bosses and minibosses, rather than mindless monsters. The humans could find alien graffiti in some of the corridors, a cache of alien objects in the trash where cleaner-bots have swept them, etc. Other than that I reiterate what I said in my first reply.