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But I still don't get the business of regions. Not only is it creating a logical disconnect (FO planets don't have regions), but it makes the whole system look hairy and complex without actually managing to add anything of substance to it. It accomplishes a few minor things which are beneficial fro...

I don't know -- I'm personally fond of the idea of having all combats resolved simultaneously through the same engine. As long as you make it clear that there's no controlling or giving orders for what's going on, on a planet... then you're set to have both occur at the same time.

I'm not so sure I like this idea of my regions, their regions. I'd prefer something more along the lines of fighting in every region at once. Its messy and uncoordinated :) Well, keep in mind that... at least with what *I* suggested, the zones are only measured by who is in control -- not whether o...

The disadvantage of that is that it implies that you have some level of detailed control over ground combat. And That I think is the key difference. I fail to see how that is implied at all from my suggestions -- especially when I am suggesting that we abstract out to nothing higher than "how ...

Ofcourse that means that that minigame shouldnt be very fastpaced or shouldnt need immediate responce to every enemy action Oh, I don't know. MoO and MoO II did quite well with the only inputs being how many troops you sent to the planet. There's really no reason for anything more input-wise from t...

There's a way to keep ground combat highly abstracted without having to totally reduce ship-to-ship combat. I've suggested it in the ship-capturing thread with current activity. Basically, it works like this: You treat a planet as being, for intents and purposes, a large number of ships each of whic...

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Re: The boarding of planets -- Well, yes... you could make the difference come across in the sheer number of defending units on a planet. I.e.; unless you send a //fleet// of specialized boarding units, you would run into the problem of simply not having anywhere near enough troops to make a dent in...

Temporary meters works for me. To save screen space and make the boarding action significantly different, perhaps it could be a "ring" meter that appears above ships being boarded, and *only* over ships/planets in the process of being boarded? Also, the idea of planets being boarded in ord...

2) The two limits help ensure you don't have the wierd situation of ... I send 50 hp over... I now have a 150 hp ship? Essentially ensurong that the Cost multipler is always higher than the benefit multiplier (note: the other main benefit is that you eliminate enemy ship hp) I was thinking of a sit...

HP my ship must spend to 'Board' = Enemy ship HP * Cost Multiplier (multiplier is Always More than 1) HP the newly captured ship has = Enemy ship HP * Benefit Multiplier (this multiplier is Always Less than 1) I don't know about those having to always be less than one. I could think of a good examp...

A thought occurs to me in reading the updates to this... a simple(r) way to balance ship-capturing in terms of its impact in a given battle: Do not immobilize a ship captured during a given combat. Instead, do something altogether different: When you send boarders to another ship, you are firing off...

"It's too pigeon-holey" The word you're looking for is... ssssymbolisssmm... (says Willem DeFoe) Or, you know, sequestering or disenfranchising. I //do// like the idea of self-sustaining colonies on a mobile platform of some form. (City in the stars...) It would even be interesting to see ...

I, for one, am actually rather fond of the idea of in-combat transport pods... the ubiquitous assault-shuttles. These would be slower and would be obvious for what they are, somehow, on the screen, giving a player the opportunity to target them explicitly. This would then mean that you'd need point-...