Ok, it took me two weeks and several kitten pictures to get myself calm enough to actually start a topic for once, but what the hell.
There have been attempts to make 'Free-Form' campaigns where you can go to different systems and do whatever, but due to FreeSpace's campaign structure system, it's not exactly feasible. FreeSpaceLancer, if you will. So there I was lurking on quest.lv, thinking, why not do a FS campaign in the form of a "quest"?
For those of you that don't know what I mean, I'm imagining something like a "What would you do" thing, where members on the forum can basically vote and suggest what to do at any given point. In a sense, it'd be like writing a collaborative story of sorts, with the person(s) running the quest there to make sure it doesn't go totally wonky. The presentation method would be through single missions, released every update, which allows you to fly what most people chose to do. I'm thinking that the modpack would be extended as needed through modular tables (since there's no way to predicting exactly what will be needed).
When the story reaches its end, the modpack could be assembled, and then the missions stitched together to make a campaign (for posterity). It'd be the cumulative work of everyone who has given an idea in thread!
The benefit of this is that we get our "free-form" campaign, without having to FRED every single possibility beforehand, since the missions would be made/tested between updates (which would ideally happen weekly or something). Of course, none of this would work without the interest of the community, so this is why I'm pitching this idea to HLP, it can't be done alone.
Basically, if people are interested, I'll put up a first mission as a test run or something, and see if I can get a few people together for testing/FREDding help...
If you have any questions/concerns feel free to ask...
