20 suggestions for SE IV

[Q]

I made a list of currently 20 suggestions for SE IV. Most of them have been posted on this forum already and e-mailed to MM. Unfortunately I did not get any confirmation of MM, that they received it. So if anyone (Richard, Beta-testers) who has a direct approach to MM and finds these suggestions reasonable, could forward them, I would be very grateful.

[Atrocities]

Good idea putting them into a read-me. Makes it easier to view without all the BS. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

I like what you have. Please mail to MM.

[Q]

Thank you Atrocities for your positive comment. As said, I already mailed it to MM (in several divided mails), but I am not sure that they received/read it. That's the reason I posted it here: I hope that someone with more direct contact to MM will pick it up and bring it to their attention.

[Possum]

Yeah, Q, I'm with Atro on this.

You got a good collection of ideas, by all means send them to Aaron http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Dr Strangelove]

Something I'd like to see is a "quit combat" button. If a player has destroyed everything that the enemy can throw at him. but chooses not to completely eliminate the enemy it would be nice to be able to bypass having to click through the remaining combat turns. Sometimes I have a spare fleet not accompanied by a troop ship. I'll use the fleet to knock down enemy planetary defenses, but I'll leave the planet intact because it will be worth more when I take it. It's tedious to click on "End Turn" twenty times.
I also wonder if there is anything that can be done to teach the AI to have enough common sense to avoid black holes.

Otherwise the list is quite good.

[This message has been edited by Dr Strangelove (edited 11 June 2001).]

[Suicide Junkie]

I really like #20, but you need to add "units" to that list. Currently, things like shield regeneration and boarding parties do not work on fighters.

[Emperor Zodd]

I suggested #16 to Aaron Last year.
It would be a great help against crew insurrection.

[Dravis]

#9 already is in the game(though you have to use the data files to creat warp points that have those properties).

[Suicide Junkie]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR> Another thing that I wish was in SE4 is the ability to split fighter groupes. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Sattelite Groups too!
In fact, any group of units except mines should be formed into squads of X units, with X being set by the player.

[This message has been edited by suicide_junkie (edited 11 June 2001).]

[Atraikius]

I had e-mailed a suggestion to MM to change the Master computer to have the Ship Bridge, Crew, and Life Support abilities instead of the Master computer ability as the AI with then place the master computers on the design, but it would also require a programming change to change the min number on life support and crew to percentage (about 2%) like transports/carrier otherwise the AI will replace each of the components with a master computer.

#17 - Last week I happened to observe the pyrochette demand a planet as a gift from the orks as I checked in on them - orks got pissed and declared war though.

[Sinapus]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by suicide_junkie:
Sattelite Groups too!
In fact, any group of units except mines should be formed into squads of X units, with X being set by the player.

[This message has been edited by suicide_junkie (edited 11 June 2001).][/B]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Satellites would work nice in a ring formation centered around a planet or warp point... say 6-10 locations and then fill them in to create the satellite Groups.

It would also be nice if the maximum tonnage would have the AI simply use hulls no bigger than that for a particular design, instead of simply not building them when there is a more advanced hull available.

That and the ability to use the name you designate for the ship type (like "attack ship 1" or similar in some mods) in Construction_Vehicles.txt so you can specify which types to build. Let the attack ship, defense ship, population transport, etc be defaults or something like that so if there isn't a specific entry for it then the AI will build them somewhat randomly.

Small ships can still be useful later in the game.

This is suggestion # 30 or so, right? http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon12.gif


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[capnq]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>It would also be nice if the maximum tonnage would have the AI simply use hulls no bigger than that for a particular design, instead of simply not building them when there is a more advanced hull available.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>ISTR other people complaining that the can't get the AI to stop building the smaller ones when the larger hulls become available?

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

[Dravis]

Another thing that I wish was in SE4 is the ability to split fighter groupes. That is #21(or the replacement for #9)?

[This message has been edited by Dravis (edited 11 June 2001).]

[Dravis]

Another thing is if someone does not answer them they should get very mad. I almost never (the AI) respond to an other empire that wants something that I don't because it doesn't make them mad.
Is this idea number 31? http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/tongue.gif

[Dravis]

OOPS!!! I double posted. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/blush.gif

[Suicide Junkie]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>OOPS!!! I double posted<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Just hit the "edit" image at the bottom of your post, and check the delete option at the top of the page.

Keep the forums clean http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Dravis]

Thanks for that bit of info!