Spess Refuge is the type of CYOA I like the most, but I think that it is pretty severely flawed. For example, the companions and planet are pretty boring, and ships aren't detailed enough. I wish that Spess Refuge and Star Dust would combine their best fea

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Anonymous 09/24/14 (Wed) 11:25:44 No.211

Spess Refuge is the type of CYOA I like the most, but I think that it is pretty severely flawed. For example, the companions and planet are pretty boring, and ships aren't detailed enough. I wish that Spess Refuge and Star Dust would combine their best features.

Anonymous 09/25/14 (Thu) 22:05:21 No.223

>>211
There needs to be more spess cyoas

Anonymous 12/26/14 (Fri) 23:39:35 No.434

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>>211
I am currently making a cyoa, and am attempting to do just that. What features would you say were the best of the two?

Anonymous 12/28/14 (Sun) 10:34:53 No.436

>>434
Some problems I have with them:

1. Skills don't seem to be commensurable. Stuff like Cooking and Bartending seems out of place.
2. Starships are generally too cheap compared to various other items. It doesn't make sense for a personal weapon to cost nearly as much as a ship.
3. Companions are often a hodge-podge of different concepts that don't really go together.

I think it'd be better to focus on small and medium-size ships. Making huge battleships an option messes with the economics of it too much.

Adventurer 05/29/17 (Mon) 15:18:37 No.3430

bump, (about to make a great post but this is going to 404)

Adventurer 05/29/17 (Mon) 15:49:04 No.3436

>>211

I posted this in all the related threads so people could see, and so that all the related threads would be bumped to the top together in a close bunch for neatness and to avoid some from 404'ing

THESE NEED TO BE COMBINED, OR AT LEAST ALWAYS POSTED TOGETHER IN ONE THREAD

the stardust cyoa needs character creation with best inspired ideas from other lewd and body customization cyoa. derelict station does a cool job with some upgradey feels, but no self customization or lewd.

this is how I think the story would go if I were to explain the evens in all the CYOA in order.

these would happen first together like this:

spess refugee (stardust shown here with big easy to read image)

https://8ch.net/cyoa/res/211.html

stardust cyoa (updated versions lower down, but poor image quality and small images/text)

https://8ch.net/cyoa/res/1760.html

solar inheritance cyoa

https://8ch.net/cyoa/res/1685.html

Basically:

dlc of jobs from the stardust cyoa (green one) would happen first, then you would wake up in the derelict space station as your first real mission thing that happens by accident, and to get out and get your money and rewards someone gifted you, you need to escape or resolve the situation or something and then it goes into the rest of the cyoa.

there is no expiration date on your money or rewards or anything, you realize that you don't rememeber how you got there but remember everything else and realize that the station is part of the thing you're experiencing and the people giving you the money reward are the same ones who put you in the station. you just wake up and read the information data they leave behind for you and realize that you're basically in an engineered maze game now of sorts, and getting out means you win and then get to go on to complete the events that take place in the rest of the startdust CYOA and other related ones.

so this happens

derelict station cyoa

https://8ch.net/cyoa/res/3170.html

and as a part of character creation you can upgrade your armor in addition to all the things they already give you in derelict station when you choose your suit that you find lying around.

power armor cyoa

https://8ch.net/cyoa/res/235.html

maybe you also realize that you just happen to have force powers during character creation? maybe this can be changed so it's FOSS and no longer copyright (fanfiction) on starwars. maybe someone renames the powers and the cyoa to "the UNF" or the "HNNNNG"

starwars cyoa

https://8ch.net/cyoa/res/2848.html

you meet many AI qt3.14's and some even help you with your ship stuff.

would you a ship cyoa

https://8ch.net/cyoa/res/2128.html

stardust CYOA needs to have bigger text because it gives me a huge headache. alot of the images are very nice but are reduced down to tiny pictures that don't do their beauty justice. I wouldn't mind the cyoa being triple or octoople bazoople the amount of pages it is now if the text was bigger with better images that aren't shrunk down. (there's even a version that's larger, I don't know why the nice and easy to read clear style was downgraded…) it's better to post 20+ images of a great cyoa then 5 severely reduced quality images. turns down the enjoyment factor alot.

I know that combining these into one TURBO cyoa would benefit the cyoa community. maybe they can just be posted together in one thread, or they can be made more modular so that all the different character creations sections fit together, or are just introduced in different stages depending on how far you are. I notice wonderful potential here. to make it easy, there doesn't need to be that big of an emphasis on point systems. that will drive most people crazy to even think of balancing. maybe it's better to just let everyone's imaginations run wild so everyone can just choose whatever setup and story they want

Adventurer 06/02/17 (Fri) 17:33:32 No.3589

!!!

>>3479

>>3501

MASSIVE DUMP

Adventurer 06/03/17 (Sat) 08:28:14 No.3605

>>436

anon, I love all the things that make it strange and quirky. don't get rid of those things or you get rid of the atmosphere!

>>434

I'm working on making a thread where all space cyoa are posted together. then letting the players create themselves. would be nice to see a combo though, but instead of erasing good qualities, just mash it all together! combining them should be to combine and create, not combine and destroy.