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.My only quibble with this is that I think players will tend to have a really negative reaction, if it happens instantly. It will allow people to win games against newbs by just luring their fleet into a battle of attrition, then taking all their rear planets. I don't think people will like that, if they don't have any time to react to it.I think for capture additional mechanisms aren't needed to reward using larger fleets because if you just send a scout to take a planet your enemy just has to kill that scout to take your planet away again. Conversely you can use a small strike force to take a planet in the enemy's rear and force him to get some stuff moving back there to take it back or you could even use that planet as a warp location for a large ship.
It's a hard issue, to be sure, since it's tied into so much else in the game engine. I was thinking that maybe you could have a LUA'd ECM / ECCM system, that if one side "burns through the jamming", changes the sight radii of that side's Units, in that specific area. That'd be a royal pain to implement, though.Sensors are difficult with Spring's handling of radar and LOS, I want to avoid using radar because I really hate that inaccuracy. Hm, maybe a gravidar that tells you the total mass located in a certain area?
I wasn't thinking so much of blocking, in the traditional sense, as of random casualty generation- i.e., you can fly through the asteroids, but you may lose a ship or three out've a fleet of 20. Anyhow, that's just a random thought on this, I think that surprise, both tactical and strategic is such a big deal for a game like this that anything that makes it more interesting may be worth pursuing.Not sure about blocking stuff, I don't like the idea too much.
Pretty much, yes- just a simple bit of LUA, tied to a "burn" button, that changes a Unit's top speed and acceleration for a number of seconds. Then you'd have another balance tool to use, too- some ships might recover from using it faster than others. Gotta find ways to make up for the lack of terrain...Burn? Like Maelstrom's "move faster" option?
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Awesome!k, I've got the gravidar implemented, it tells you the total mass of the ships in an area and has no reaction below a certain mass, one or two scouts won't show up but anything larger will cause a reaction (unless you spread it out enough). Capital ships are so heavy that it's hard to tell if they have a fighter escort around. I think I'll make planets cause huge reactions so you can't tell what's near them.
Thanks. The skybox still looks better than the alternatives, I've tried one by smoth but that wasn't designed for voidwater it seems, had huge, blotchy stars on the bottom.hrmph wrote:Looks cool. And you can definitely use that skybox. It is a bit hideous though! I never used it but, a long time ago Runecrafter gave me permission to use his skybox from cosmos. I'm sure he would give you permission as well.
Zpock wrote:Maybe try LUA based own skybox to make it work?
To spice up space maps I made a widget that displays blinking stars for my secret space mod.. I was thinking that I might try some stuff like rendered planets (moons? dynamic?), sun, shooting stars, comets, nebulae, asteroid fields...
When released those will be easily usable by other mods too of course since their widgets.
Sounds like Star Trek Armada 2, sounds cool to me.KDR_11k wrote:http://www.darkstars.co.uk/downloads/vi ... S+WIP1.zip
I ended up implementing starbases BTW, you spawn them like large ships and they double the output of their planet (does not stack, you only get double no matter how many bases you stick on one planet).
