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Away Mission Creation Guidelines

So, you want to make an away mission! They're a lot of fun to play, but they're a challenge to create. To ensure a consistent standard of quality across away missions, following the guidelines (split into recommended and required) is beneficial to ensure your PR is merged.

Recommendations

• Create a design document
  • This one is good because it lets you make a coherent thought of what you want your away mission to be, and for others to understand its purpose.
• Don't go alone
  • Away missions are hard work! Making a team of different specializations helps out massively with workload and speed of the project.
• Communicate with Maintainers
  • During the creation of your away mission, it is highly recommended you communicate with maintainers to ensure major changes do not have to be made when it's finished.

Design Requirements

• Minimum average time to complete: 60 minutes
  • Bare minimum, it should take a team of 4-6 60 minutes to complete.
• Design around 4-6 players
  • Skyrat's gateways use the Vanguard expedition team, which is usually 4 players, but it's best to account for up to 6.
• Not purely PvE
  • Design your gateway with more than just regular simplemobs in mind. Add puzzles, story, PVP, boss fights, etc. to spice up the gameplay instead of a slog of simplemobs.
• Loot should not be extreme
  • The gateway's loot should mostly be given in the purview of using it in the gateway itself (final boss loot and similar not withstanding).
  • Loot that's unusable outside the gateway is given more leeway.
  • Loot should not be the primary encouragement for someone to go through the gateway.