Well, after reading a topic about automatic defences (read it here http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?threads/automated-defenses.1111/#post-25188) ... I thought of the idea of hiring your own soldiers to protect you! Basicly, it would work almost like a vendor NPC, you would have a selection of guards with their own special traits and weapons. You can, in a way, "Customize" your guard. For example... - Some guards have a camo that does better on an ice based planet, than desert camo on a desert based - Or, a guard can do a lot better with a melee weapon than another guard that can do perfectly with a gun. However, the guards you choose would be based on the planets you've visited. If it's your first time on a forest planet, it would be impossible to hire a forest came guard until you return back to your base. (Thanks, Pray_for_Snow for the idea!) In conclusion, you would be able to hire a guard that can follow you around like a pet, or stay and guard a certain place, like your home base. You could choose to hire a guard that would fit your needs the best, fire it, then get a new one for another planet or situation. Also, it would probabily be a good idea to limit the number of guards you can have, maybe to one or two. It would be a little bit to OP if you could have 10 guards with you. It's just an idea. Please, give your honest opinion and ideas. Also, vote on the poll! Don't forget to like the post! Also, please check out my post on Trappable Creatures! http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?threads/trappable-creatures.1509/
I think the guards should be randomized by what planets you have encountered. That is, if you've been to an ice planet, you have a chance of getting a mercenary with snow camouflage, while if you've never been to a forest planet, you'll never get a forest mercenary.
I somewhat like this idea. If I could summon them down from the spaceship and tell them to guard an area while I am mining than I would be happy with it. However perhaps you should be able to purchase some mercenaries and supply them with their equipment? I would like to customize my mercenaries. As they do missions for you they could get better and perhaps we could send them on boarding missions or gathering missions for materials for us.
Yea it`s good Idea and maybe for get guard can be 2 ways? 1 way: save him from monsters 2 way: Pay for him
I meant like having a tutor type NPC that will help you until you learn everything you should to know about the game.
I don't understand what you just said, but you won't have to protect the NPC that helps you learn, he would have a weapon and he would protect you, not the other way around.
I do like both the ideas, but about the idea like followers in Skyrim... That would be less direct than just hiring a NPC to protect you, and you wouldn't have the range of choosing the best guard for a situation. Not saying your idea is bad, I would use it if I was low on In-Game money.
