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@guiguibaah: this implyes, that tactics in combat are reduced to some basic strategic orders, which have some sort of a sicor-stone-paper feeling for me. I shulrely hope, that there will be a 2D compleplayer controlled combat engine with "phase time".

Ship design is the overriding factor in moo2 combat. There are no tactics involved that i have ever seen. Most of the so called 'strategies' that exist in Moo2 combat are in fact just cheesy exploits of gameplay mechanics, the classic and most extreme example being the timewarp facilitator / stasis...

[...] The Moo2 style of combat (tactics and strategy are irrelevant - its all down to ship design) is just too depressing to contemplate - if the combat system is so empty of tactics/strategy that a retarded AI can still compete then automate it. MoO2 games are not empty of strategies. Tactics are ...

Well. It`s all about 2 things really: how much of a ship´s complexity will be useful, interesting in ship combat. If you have a simple combat system i`t doesn`t really need a complex ship design. And of course how much time and effort are we willing to spend in this. I agree with that. If we have a...

All right then. I go conform with your posting

Allright, so I will leave such thinks up to you. using the diffs is a pain.
But I hope that this guy will get a live ...

I just ran out of sparetime and couldnt revert comile etc.

Is there a faster way then using the dif files?
I rearly hope there is one.
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what would be the absolute bare minimium people would be happy with in a combat engine for FO v1.0....if it were stripped down to it's very core, what would be the must-have defining features? A good old "Spaceward Ho!" style of combat would resolve the conflict, but wouldn't satisfy me. ...

The ideas seem to have nothing in commond, and target totally different asspects of the game, but have the same effect (the ship getting better)
If you do it on crew level you have to do it seperatly for each ship + a gereral modifier for race.

Maybe it's just me, but the link
http://www.freeorion.org/wiki/index.php ... quirements
just gives me a "NOT found" ...
Is there another way to the desighndocument discussed here??

I see a Loop-hole possibillity there: take a small ship, speed through enemy lines, fire with the three small lasers on the enemy. Now the three big Battelcrusers are at 25% shild eficienmcy (tok the numers from the initial post) when you fire from up front, so your Battlecrusers will simply sweep t...

This aproving posts in Wiki would work, but could impose the person who has to go through alle the changes with some real work, since a bot coudl easyly generate thousand of changes per secound. Now if you only allow 3 per 10 minutes only the bot will ever post and nobody else can (so this would loc...

The proposal of Kharagh makes the distributed shild points from Dreamer more "Star Trek" like, but adds the userinteraction Kharagh (and many other) would have liked to avoid. As I remember MoO2 has both combined. A shild reduces damage by a certain percentage and takes same damage before ...

Having diferent shildtypes is a interresting thing, which could provide for a lot of tactics, but this could make comabt quite compicated. ... But I like the idea.

I don't know about ships, but I rearly like the idea of evolving the race you play to change there abilities. There coudk be several way's to get point - a Point every 5 turns - 20 Point sfor researching genetic engeniering Thereafter you could take pics like - infravision (20P) - Cameleon skin (42P...