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Moo3 wasn't even that good iirc, even with a gigantic (200 planet) empire I could only crank them out every 4 turns. However.... :twisted: I did have an idea relating to this. First, the manner of spy placement is irrelevant to my concept. Planets have meters, right? How about a "spy network&qu...

Something which just occurred to me: Fighters should probably do more 'crippling' damage than missiles or beams. Put in context: Weapon Types.PNG That is, fighters don't actually deal very much damage, but because they tend to get very close they're relatively accurate and can intelligently select t...

I disagree. The high resource cost of ships, the decrease in combat effectiveness any stealthy ship will suffer (if there is no tradeoff, it is not a strategic decision,) and the strong possibility of technological seesawing will likely make it rare. Most players tend not to plan for retreat, so tha...

How about, "Political Clout"? Or possibly just "Clout" That is, after all, what it seems to be intended for. For example, the U.S. uses money to generate political clout, but it's the clout that lets us do things or influence people. I agree that the two can be considered synonym...

Heavily edited by Geoff -- If detection is always a [Sensor Range - Stealth quality] = Visibility Range question, it limits the tactical and strategic utility. Two simple examples: 1. Strategic: Stealthed fleet heading to raid/do espionage on an important world. As soon as it comes close-ish to the...

Unless we're planning on adding an entire tactical fleet warfare simulator shell, per-ship manipulatable experience is a bad idea. If you really want to get precise, use multiple levels that are invisible to the user, or at least translated into real-worldish terms. Variables -- "SH" Ship ...

1. As amusing as it was in Moo, per-ship experience is just silly in any game involving an empire. If you were a space pirate, sure, but with a galactic military machine, not so much. 2. As well as being a bad idea in terms of gameplay, gaining XP only as the result of damage done or won battles is ...

Also, other than UI formatting there is no compelling reason NOT to include multiple variables for different systems. The amount of memory needed to store all of the meters I mentioned for a gigantic, epic space battle is still probably less than 50% of the graphics memory used to actually render th...

There is definitely a certain logic to assigning a general archetype and having it affect the attributes of a ship. For example, carriers aren't usually as heavily armed or durable because they have to allocate a lot of internal volume to their small craft and accompanying maintenance and crew area....

Unlike unit movement in games like Starcraft and Warcraft, having a gaggle of randomly selected ships assault should be (and is in reality) suicide. From a gameplay perspective, something similar to MOO3's fleets (but *much* more forgiving and customizable) would 1. make combat make a lot more sense...

The problem with generalizations like that would be that they eliminate player design decisions somewhat. Players should be able to make their own decisions based on their preferences.

Although not precisely on topic, it would be rather cool to be able to create some kind of template or blueprint that your planets would automatically fulfill as able based on their classification(s). Especially for fleet creation. It wouldn't create a fleet automatically, but build ships in keeping...

I would pipe up here with a reminder that the actual complexity of a system is immaterial, so long as the apparent complexity is low enough to be within FO's ideals. Also, the more logically or sensibly they behave, the less players will feel the need to micromanage them, even if the actual AI syste...

Not what I meant--all ships constructed with that type of armor would have roughly similar deflection thresholds. The size of the ship would have relatively little to do with it. The mass devoted to armor would affect it somewhat, but primarily it would be material. Small ships would have the advant...

You only really need to design the pattern once. Not per planet. This counters the microing, because you never micro on a per-planet basis, only on an empire scale. Not only would it add flavor, but also provide possible weaknesses to exploit. This would be something that would require balancing work.