Custom scenarios

[lewisd]

I think it would be pretty cool to have a few kinds of custom scenarios.  Scenarios that are just maps, and scenarios that impart other restrictions, like which storyteller they use, and/or a set of starting colonists.

I picture a "Start Scenario" button on the main menu, that goes to a list of scenarios to be chosen.  The list would indicate what the scenario provides, any combination of: map, starting colonists, story teller.  Upon selecting a scenario, the player would be prompted for story teller and colonist creating if not supplied, just like starting a normal game.

The maps provided with scenarios would also specify a starting location for the pods to be dropped.

It's not a trivial feature, but it doesn't sound like it's giant either.

[Darker]

I think using gamesaves as scenarios is quite fine. What the game rather needs is a posibility to sort saves in directories.

With that, you could easily have "Scenarios" directory in your gamesave location.

[lewisd]

I don't think there's a way to do the things I suggested, like selecting a story teller, or different starting colonists, by just using savegames as scenarios.  That's why I was making this suggestion.

[Karakoran]

I think OP is more looking for a starting scenario where you would select something like Super Planet 3 Million - Rainy, Mountainous, Colonists: Oger- Hoger- Boger-, and Classic Storyteller. In which case gamesaves would sort of work, but would be impractical.

[Darker]

It's true that it would be more practical to select the stuff you start with manually. And I too miss possibility of multiple environments but I believe this is planned.