FreeOrion

Here are the rules, they should be easy to follow. We are to come up with construction techs. A construction tech is basically infrastructure that allows a planet to develop past its current limit. This means these techs will define the "pace" of the game. Thus it is VERY important that we are caref...

I assume that learning will also be the category that will allow tech to procede faster? i.e. If I have a tech that takes 500 RP for 10 turns, then I should be able to research a tech that allows tech to procede at 1000 RP for 5 turns. In moo1 the amount of research done was 8 times per pop unit. Al...

There are no e's? the most common letter in the english alphabet?

I think the best way to prevent a run away snowball effect thing is to cap it by technology. Of course at the end of the tech tree the cap will be gone. However in the early middle and late game there should be some transition techs. THese are a group of techs that allow your empire to grow larger/f...

I voted against starlanes.....
I also wanted sliders....

I've also moved on from worrying about those two items. Now I'll be working on the tech costs/economy etc as soon as this semester is over.

Any kind of arbitrary caps should be avoided.

Yes there will be a practical cap but that should have to do with hardware/software restrictions solely, not to balance the game. Game balance can be achieved in other ways besides just telling the player "no."

I do kind of like the idea of defining an airframe for the ships. Sphere: maximum surface area/volume Lots of guns/missiles etc. minimum manueverability/speed Typically very large (battleships, dreadnoughts, doom stars). Wedge/cone: Spinal Mount Cannons. Manueverability and speed. typically for manu...

The questions we should be trying to address is how the overall mechanics will work out , then come up with neat ideas as to how to accomplish it. The name of a shield is unimportant. Any special cases you want the shiled to have are unimportant. What IS important is that shields will stop damage. ...

Ranos. I want their to be something else besides just Armor for the HP of a ship as well. However that is beyond the scope of the thread. The point of this thread is not to come up with a complete combat system. It is to come up with the general rules, with zero numbers. Just the overview of how it ...

Impaler: Its not good if the player has complete control over all aspects of their ships. It is almost impossible to balance and makes building a ship more complicated then it needs to be. Instead of letting the player create any kind of shield he wants we just present the player with shield classes...

I think shields and armor should work something like this. Certain armors are good against certain types of damage. Bad against other types of damage. Act as the hit points of a ship. Nullifys an amount of damage depending on the tech level of the armor. More if the armor is "good" against the weapo...

No sliders. Large discussion between Nightfish and I and a few of the other members, early in the project. So if you want something like what you are proposing think of a more interesting way of presenting it. Though really I'm not sure of what the point of variable fleet costs would be. Would it be...

Ranos, the confusion about your energy advanced energy stuff is why you just need a generic name. Type A weapons, Type B weapons etc. Shields need to be considered differently from armor because they aren't just another armor on the outside of the ship. They are something different altogether. Thus ...

Cool. I like it. Its not really that complicatd as long as we don't clutter it with the lifetime of a spy and make it so we have to check every 10 turns to see if our fucking spies are dead or not and then hire additional ones, etc.

So bascially your counter system Ranos breaks down into, 5? types of damages. But one is not actually a damage type, wouldn't explosive be unrelated to the damge type but be factored in with other stuff. I'm not sure how to deal with explosive damage. Why is it different than kinetics? So you have 4...