Satellite would be used to find the main crashed ship. This would make a satellite actually useful.
Along with space packs from the rocket, the player would start researching new tech.
This tech now would be directed towards fixing the main crashed ship,
or building it from scratch from the blueprints found at the main crashed ship.
This would present the player with another big goal, the first big goal being a rocket and a satellite.
Also the player would need to launch more rockets to get more space science packs to be able to build/fix the main ship.
The devs wanted us to keep launching rockets and I think this would be a great reason to.
In my opinion it's the clear goals that keeps us going.
OK, that was the main idea. If anyone is interested I have brainstormed some more stuff regarding this suggestion.
<>The lone engineer could have been one of many volunteers sent out to search for a new home.
He found a perfect planet but how can he inform others about that? - By returning home.
<>Rocket could crash-land in a random radius from the launch site with science packs in the debree.
<>A big hive of aliens has infested the main ship - more utilization of combat, mabye some sort of alien brood mother.
Thank you for reading, I would love to hear what are you guys thinking of this!
