I'm making this suggestion months in advance, as its something i've personally asked for several times, and i know others would like to see them too.

Rare NPC's, NPC Boss/Elites & NPC Bases(like the hyperport/warp station) for Holiday's.

Each year we get the solo NPC's that fall into the common/uncommon ranges, yet i don't even remember seeing a rare Holiday NPC, let alone any Boss/Elite/Base NPC's.

Surely it only stands to reason that these fleets of common/uncommon ships have some sort of command vessel?

So with at least a 2 month head start till thanksgiving and the rise of the Bane NPC's, hopefully Dan and his team can whip something up in that time, to at least fill one of the above areas.

I'm a relatively new player and haven't been around for many a holiday; however, that said, I think adding more than commons and uncommons could lead to a sort of mini-story/invasion plot. It wouldn't take a whole lot of work, and it would definitely be something to keep the older players in the game.

+1 from me

+1

Should it happen? Yes
Can it happen? Yes
Will it happen? No (unless Dan gets his head out of the gutter and starts reading the suggestions again)

Dan does read the suggestions or some of them anyway, if there's a particularly good one, like NPC planets a while back he will give a little comment. I like the original idea of having boss/elites for holidays, it would add a nice little twist, and of course some unique rewards, it gets a +1 from me.

Bumping this so as to remind Dan that we would like to see some Bosses/Elite Rares for the upcoming Holiday NPC Events.

Le Bump

For sure a great idea, and one who's time should have been addressed before this. The addition of boses to the Holiday NPCs would add the new spice for those of us who have seen and dealt with them before. This will also hold the potential for a new holiday mission to go with the event. I do hope Dan has taken interest in this and will be arranging for us to meet some new "friends".

This is a great idea, +1, It would even be nice if we could somehow get holiday npc images for our ships to expand a little on that, possibly a drop. A holiday mission like what we had for christmas. Weather its just something as little as a planet structure would nice. I would really like to see the holiday ship images unlockable, for bases and/or "preferred player ships".

Holiday bosses would be a fun change. We'll make sure to include some this season.

Are we expecting the regular uncommons as well? I personally am trying to collect every upgraded version of mods in the game and I still need some holiday ones.

We always try to introduce new ones alongside the ones from previous years.

Sweet

Awesome, can't wait to see these introduced.

One question, they won't have rank restrictions will they? Rank 1721 asking

i expect to see a mutant alien turkey for Thanksgiving

the thought of a female feline turkey just popped into my head and i realized that i've been wasting too much time reading asinine GL forum posts

Well you don't post much but it gets exciting when you do lol.

HOLIDAY BOSSES! HOLIDAY BOSSES!!! +1

BIG +1!!

Thanks Dan. how about some type Vampiric Alien species with the Hallowsbane, and all for a mutant alien turkey too lol. Something I had thought about... Christmas present dropping npcs, and maybe a special New Years npc, only available on the first. Either way great to hear cool stuff in the works.

Will we need to fight a Boss Super-Drednaught code-named S.A.N.T.A ( Structurally Augmented Naughty Targeted Annihilatrix ) -with eight slots- XD?

Also, why are there so few UST specials for holidays? Last year we got a few, this year none; could we have more Base-Related Holiday fair in general mayhaps?

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