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Absolutely awesome! I was just pottering about these forums when things were getting started, but this game is already excellent, and since MOO3 no longer works at all on my machine is a worthy addition to the few games that I really play! I absolutely can't wait to see what's in-store for this proj...

Technically you could attach any size weapon to any sized ship. Just duct-tape the stellar converter to the front of your scout ship, sure the thrusters on that ship aren't going to be very speedy, but it'll get going eventually =) Whether or not remains in one piece during hyperspace is another mat...

Well, borrowing from my own game's dynamics again, the way I've factored in small or numerous weak ships is that they actually have a bonus depending on how small they are in relation to the enemy vessel. So say a fleet of 1000 ton ships fight a fleet of 10 ton fighter sized ships. The fighters woul...

I had to skip a lot of these pages. But in a little browser game I'm making (actually it's not so little anymore, monstrous task as it is!) hull types are more ways of constructing ships, rather than simply bigger sizes. In this way you'd have say fairly rigid class, for the sake of argument size sm...

moo3 had them. MOO3 had some pathetic biological ground combat option with huge political ramifications. You use biological weapons in your ground strikes and everyone hates you in a single turn. But if you bring in a huge fleet loaded with guns and bomb the holy crap out of a planet until it's dea...

Anti-burn field (REALLY bad name!) Basically the ship vents a gas that makes it impossible for most lower-level engine technologies to function in the surrounding area. Effectively locking an enemy ship in its position (and yours too if you don't have sufficient engine tech) so that you can force a...

Offense Grid This is an upgrade to particular types of missiles. Basically upon detecting counter-measures (e.g lightning fields) they will break apart and electrically charge their payload, so instead of exploding, the gasses and chemicals in them fire forward. The effect is that these missiles, up...

Dimensional Shielding +100% shields (ie twice whatever the second best shielding is) These shields effectively work by temporarily shifting the ship in and out of hyperspace (or some other alternate dimension depending on whether this would fit into hyperspace theory as per this game) rendering it ...

Could the wonder's effect be reduced? Obviously having more than one identical wonder in the galaxy would reduce the popularity of both, thus they'd have 50% output (or 33% etc). Alternatively, why would you even know what wonders you are building in the first place? Surely it would make more sense ...

IMO it should be a cool cluster of planets, filled with unusual ruins and stuff. Like it was a seat of government for the whole galaxy but wiped out in a cataclysmic event. With some remaining defences to keep it difficult to get into.

I skimmed this so I apologise if I missed much. However I think I'm quite well into what you mean, if you're a strategy fan and haven't played any Myth games before, then I suggest you swing by ProjectMagma.net and download the Myth 2: Soulblighter demo. It's not a space-game, but it is a VERY tacti...

I remember posting in a thread with a similar idea to this, essentially the game could be allowed to 'scale' at some point (e.g the ascension tech is actually inter-galactic travel) and suddenly instead fighting around sectors in a galaxy, you are fighting over galaxies in the universe. So basically...

Couldn't a plant happily grow into the shape of a ship (perhaps several plant creatures growing to combine in the different parts). Plants have various different defensive mechanisms, so weapons become possible, and one of these could be fire or gravitic manipulation, which can (with intelligence) b...

What if they were a single entity that could grow in many parts, or a hive mind type thing with a central intelligence somewhere. One of the objectives in the game could be to communicate with this intelligence, which would have been around for quite a while