Galactic Doorstep is mechanically underwhelming and doesn't offer anything interesting that changes the early game.
Here are a few suggestions to rectify this:
1. Add more events about the gateway spewing out random objects. This can work somewhat like Scion where the player receives random buffs, anything from alloys to research caches to salvageable event ships. I believe there are already a few of these in-game, but they're infrequent and pretty negligible.
2. Add an additional archeology site to your home system. Galactic Doorstep seems, in part, based on Mass Effect where humanity discovered a mass relay in its home system. An additional piece of Mass Effect's lore is that there were other places in the Sol System that were home to other precursor ruins. Here's an excerpt from the Mass Effect Wiki:
An additional archeology site would be an easy and interesting buff, especially if there are multiple outcomes/options as to what this buff entails.
3. Add at least one other gateway within 5-10 jumps of your starting system. One gateway by itself isn't very useful. There should be at least one other gateway for the player to find that's far enough to meaningfully cut travel time but close enough that the player can take its system within the first few decades.
4. Put something interesting on the other side of the gateway. This would ideally be added alongside the third suggestion where there is at least one other gateway for find. The system with that gateway should have something interesting (like a habitable planet or buff) and worth fighting over.
Here are a few suggestions to rectify this:
1. Add more events about the gateway spewing out random objects. This can work somewhat like Scion where the player receives random buffs, anything from alloys to research caches to salvageable event ships. I believe there are already a few of these in-game, but they're infrequent and pretty negligible.
2. Add an additional archeology site to your home system. Galactic Doorstep seems, in part, based on Mass Effect where humanity discovered a mass relay in its home system. An additional piece of Mass Effect's lore is that there were other places in the Sol System that were home to other precursor ruins. Here's an excerpt from the Mass Effect Wiki:
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An additional archeology site would be an easy and interesting buff, especially if there are multiple outcomes/options as to what this buff entails.
3. Add at least one other gateway within 5-10 jumps of your starting system. One gateway by itself isn't very useful. There should be at least one other gateway for the player to find that's far enough to meaningfully cut travel time but close enough that the player can take its system within the first few decades.
4. Put something interesting on the other side of the gateway. This would ideally be added alongside the third suggestion where there is at least one other gateway for find. The system with that gateway should have something interesting (like a habitable planet or buff) and worth fighting over.
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