Bring individual characters into the game

You do realize that this is a multiplayer gameplay test, right?

Um..
1: Your haiku has too many syllables.
2: There is no storyline in SoaSE beta.
3: That storyline is way overdone. Go play nexus if you want a cheesy, over-done storyline.

Guy gets promoted from Peon to Emperor as game advances.. Been there.. Done that.... Yawn.

A suggestion for single player "characters" Would be just have a "Hologram" or a video file of someone saying "capture this planet and you will get 4 free cobalts or so on.They had something like that in Star Wars: Empire At War,it wasnt bad.

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Har Har Har.

...... It takes long enough to win a game STARTING OUT as emporer of a planet....

....now imagine what would happen if we had to earn the loyality of the planet in the first place!!!!

depends on what type of "campaign" the devs are going to implement. the capships are already lvling like wc3 heroes, maybe you get personalisation here with little transmitting images of the ships' captains (think of freespace) and try to keep those same units throughout the campaign. its really something for the single player I'd say, but charakters with images and faces normally contribute to the dramatic feel of a story.

perhaps he meant 'captain' or 'admiral' leader personas that could be hired and assigned to ships for various bonuses.

what might be nice is to be able to take said character from game to game. have a list of special abilities and for every so many games won he gets a new one. don't no say like 50 single player games, 10 multi player games.

Thatd be terribly unballanced.. the guy who has played 50 games has a admiral with like uber abilities, the guy who just started is screwed with his level 0 mook.

Lame too, you play a hundred planet game across a dozen star systems, spend three days doing it, and your character does absolutely nothing the entire time. Maybe if the game consisted of small skirmish maps yeah, but it's a 4x. If there are characters that level they need to do so in the scope of a game, not be persistent and only change between them.

ooo make an Advent character named Admiral Kiernyc devs !!!!!!

who worships the great and ambivalent, SCHOD!

So thats what the Vasari have been running from... Schem and his giant ego.

oooh, that would be crushing

pft Id go insane too