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- Fri Dec 07, 2007 1:02 am
- Forum: Other Game Design
- Topic: Ship Builds
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2055
Re: Ship Builds
Interesting.. I think it could work but it sounds like some complexity would have to be added to make it a usable idea. The reason I think this is because if you only had 8 slots total for systems then smaller systems (like EM countermeasures) would never be used. I'm am assuming that EM countermeas...
- Sun Jul 03, 2005 6:50 pm
- Forum: Story
- Topic: Symbiosis Race Group suggestion
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6083
That is from The uplift saga by David Brin. One of my favorute series, and the only series on my list of favorites that isn't hard sci-fi.
- Fri Jul 01, 2005 9:30 pm
- Forum: Other Game Design
- Topic: XML downside
- Replies: 31
- Views: 8159
XML can be interpreted by the program any number of different ways and I’m not sure exactly how freeorion does it, but most programs I know of use tinyXML which does a very good job. It converts the entire document into a tree of XML elements and portions of that tree can be passed around. So you ca...
- Fri Jul 01, 2005 9:12 pm
- Forum: Other Game Design
- Topic: The Basics of Ship Combat
- Replies: 100
- Views: 18912
- Wed May 11, 2005 5:30 am
- Forum: Other Game Design
- Topic: Balance of Power
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2275
So it's kind of like poker? I think a poker like element to the spy or diplomacy system could be quite fun. Some action could start a chain reaction that keeps sucking up spies or diplomats until someone decides to back down. You could even make it more like poker giving each player a hand that the ...
- Thu May 05, 2005 7:48 pm
- Forum: Other Game Design
- Topic: Flanking and Shield Facings
- Replies: 74
- Views: 17423
The KISS rule is a great rule of thumb, but if you follow it to its logical conclusion we will end up with a game of one-dimensional tic-tac-toe. Is it just me, or does tic-tac-toe seem needlessly complex for this analogy to anyone else? How about rock-paper-scissors? Or better yet, each player pic...
- Sat Apr 30, 2005 6:21 pm
- Forum: Other Game Design
- Topic: The Basics of Ship Combat
- Replies: 100
- Views: 18912
In my mind the bare minimum would be a simple equation that took into account three factors: offense, defense, and mass. Your offense would be divided by the other side’s defense to produce damage which would then be distributed to a random ship on the other side after both sides had fired. The amou...
- Sat Apr 23, 2005 7:00 am
- Forum: Other Game Design
- Topic: Flanking and Shield Facings
- Replies: 74
- Views: 17423
I suppose if you just look at the original post this could be a loophole. However, with the system I'm describing that small ship would have to survive for quite some time before it diverted significant power from your shields, it's shields would be unable to focus on anything, so even if it was pac...
- Thu Apr 21, 2005 8:05 pm
- Forum: Other Game Design
- Topic: Flanking and Shield Facings
- Replies: 74
- Views: 17423
No, I would just take into account the size of the ship(s), at least for the initial algorithm. You seem to be forgetting that computers can do billions of calculations a second, and that a calculation about the strength of a shield at a particular point would only have to be made at the instant tha...
- Thu Apr 21, 2005 8:50 am
- Forum: Other Game Design
- Topic: Flanking and Shield Facings
- Replies: 74
- Views: 17423
I still really like the idea of shield focus points. I do think that the level of threat needs to be taken into account as well. If a battleship detects an enemy scout ship in battle and can see no other enemy ships then a focus point will be created like normal but the focus point will only charge ...
- Thu Apr 14, 2005 6:53 am
- Forum: Other Game Design
- Topic: Flanking and Shield Facings
- Replies: 74
- Views: 17423
Sounds neat. You could have shield focuses that automatically track to incoming fire. An unfocused shield would be something like 10% effective everywhere but as soon as enemy fire or ships are detected your ship’s computer would automatically create a shield focus point and any damage would be calc...
- Wed Apr 13, 2005 8:04 pm
- Forum: Story
- Topic: Hostile lifeform list
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8202
- Tue Apr 12, 2005 6:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Is it something wrong with the domain name?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6189
I have a request. I tend to use any number of public terminals here at school to access these forums, so I usually get to them by typing freeorion.org/forum in the address bar. At home I can use bookmarks so not having a domain name doesn’t bother me, but at school I have to do a google search for f...
- Mon Apr 11, 2005 6:19 pm
- Forum: Other Game Design
- Topic: Ship Character
- Replies: 28
- Views: 5193
It would be neat if whenever someone did something that was against the galatic rules (like wiping out another race) the game would put a bounty on that person't head. The bounty would decay over time, but if done correctly it could induce a situation in which one player mercessly wipes out another ...
- Fri Apr 08, 2005 7:03 pm
- Forum: Other Game Design
- Topic: Ship Character
- Replies: 28
- Views: 5193