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There is more than just a weapon that determines a ship. The tried and true method of choose hull, fit weapons, equipment, etc inside is the best way. You could also have the option of choosing the weapons, equipment etc and then taking a hull exactly equal to the room all the components take up. t...

@utilae The point for carriers required to be big is that LR should be a counter for them (in my RPS system). Your medium carriers that wipe LR would be a gamebreaker. - LR is superior vs large ships, moderate vs medium and useless vs small (can't hit from long distance, and up close they are too f...

Zpock wrote:Every good story needs a hero, and a villain...

good point. But why a hero ship (nameless crew?), instead of a hero captain?

still have to hear from magus.

What bothers you about hero ships?

On the other hand, why should we bother with hero ships?

I'm liking the proposal of the past few posts...I have a solution. What the admiral wants is weapons. if we let the admiral pick them first, then one way to ensure that the space needed is available is to have a bunch of graphics depicting all the different sizes and shapes of ships (perhaps a colum...

Personally, I'd like to make a simple rule: you can only have a single shield operating at a time, because if you have two of them, they could touch, invert, and blow your ship up. People can use shield capacitors and other technologies to make their shield more effective, and have more advanced ver...

@Erik: Hey, I'm Eric! the problem with that system is that there's no reason for a ship to "randomly" upgrade to a different weapon. My suggestion would be, if you want that to happen, then have the ship captain or crew gain experience. The experience could be in random areas (manuverabili...

I liked Mechwarrior 3 and 4, but my favorite was Mechwarrior 2. In MW2, you were a clan member, driving omnimechs--in other words, no specialized slots, just load the weapons onto whatever body part struck you. We, however, could use the Innersphere system, and recognize that certain weapons have to...

one of the best ways to encourage multiple weapon types is by imposing two limitations on weapons: energy requirement, and space requirement. This won't work. Energy turns out to be the same as space. eg If a weapon requires alot of energy, it means you need some space for a better powerplanet to g...

under Krikk's idea, we wouldn't have ship sizes so much as we would have engine sizes. is that basically the idea? Nooooo...... The idea is that ship sizes are actually size RANGES... I was oversimplifying, but that's the unintended consequence of your proposal. If I can take a "frigate" ...

Actually I don't think we Want to encourage multiple weapon types on the same ship. Why not? By providing a 2D tradeoff like I mentioned, or possibly even a 3D tradeoff between weapon classes, it promotes a diversity of weapons. If you only have "energy" as a constraint, for example, then...

under Krikk's idea, we wouldn't have ship sizes so much as we would have engine sizes. is that basically the idea?

one of the best ways to encourage multiple weapon types is by imposing two limitations on weapons: energy requirement, and space requirement. lasers take up very little space, but a lot of energy, so you can only mount so many of them. missiles take up very little energy, but a lot of space (for amm...

That strategy would be ideal if the AI could be that smart. Take an RTS game and tell the unit with more speed and range to attack and they don't quite have as much success. That's because they can't move and fire at the same time in an RTS game--they must stop to fire. A key limitation of the comb...

@solidcordon: I like it. Why don't we go all the way, and make the game sorta like Dungeons & Dragons? I'll state the basic princicples: 1. surprize round: one player basically gets a free shot at the enemy, with the enemy's guard being down. 2. main rounds: the player with the highest rank (or ...