Posted by: vorpal+5
« on: December 18, 2020, 12:55:42 AM »
When you play with several neutral or friendly races (multi-nations Sol start) then you can't really leave the contact display ON, just too much traffic.
But often you would like to monitor specific systems, see if a given nation is moving into it or transiting through it. So the idea of adding a new conditional order, that would trigger when a ship of a specific nation is spotted. That would be a modification or generalization of the current order "Hostile ship contact in the system", although as it asks for an additional parameter, the nation, it might be tricky code-wise to pull out.
As a consequence you can move into a RDV point, which will trigger a message when reached. Ideally, adding as a consequence "issue text message" would be ideal and flavorful, as you could type smth like "Sir, we have spotted Russian ships in Gliese 1" or whatever.