New ideias / concepts / problems in / for SE4 (1.35):

Crazy_Dog · #1 June 3rd, 2001, 12:28 AM

The Pyrochette need more names for ships.
In a long game, i enconter ships up to 'Design 2380'.

Aristoi · #2 June 3rd, 2001, 01:49 AM

I've never gained any tech from capturing a planet. Even when they had level 3 buildings and I still had level 1. Perhaps there should be a command to scrap a facility and get tech from it like with ships.

Nice list, btw, Crazy.

ZeroAdunn · #3 June 3rd, 2001, 08:39 AM

It would be cool if when you captured a planet you gained tech (random) and your enemy lost a tech or two.

Imagine: After a long and devestating war in which numerous planets were captured or destroyed you find that, uh oh, you've lost about half you tech and will have to research it all over agian, would make for very interesting games.

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Captain, I found your pants.

Crazy_Dog · #4 June 3rd, 2001, 12:07 PM

Have you see that if you destroy a storm don't get a message ?

If all my ships / designs use quantum reactors, why the AI / Ministers still build ressuply depots ?
Can't MM put a check on this ?

If i'm only interest in the colonies build WP and not ships/sats/mines by minister control, right now is not possible, but if MM give the tasks to diferent ministers, that can be done.

Is possilbe to MM put a filter for the reporting about 'no space avaiable' only get one for a planet and not one for each item that the planet try to build and can't ?

Is possible to MM put the following flags in the empire options ?
Not glaze a planet (forcing to capture it).
No cloak the ships / uncloak (because the ships cloacked don't remove mines). This one must don't affect bases.

On the AI side, if they have ships with BH / Nebula kill capability and don't exist any of these, scrap the ships (they are resource killers and count for total ships limit).

On other side, is possible to MM put a error dump file for the case of 'error exception', and in that case the players can send it to MM for better / faster debugging ?

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Aristoi · #5 June 3rd, 2001, 02:54 PM

quote:
Originally posted by ZeroAdunn:
Imagine: After a long and devestating war in which numerous planets were captured or destroyed you find that, uh oh, you've lost about half you tech and will have to research it all over agian, would make for very interesting games.

Could lead to some fairly silly situations, though.

"Sir, we've forgotten how to colonize our own planet type!"

The comic situations are endless.

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capnq · #6 June 3rd, 2001, 06:41 PM

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Is possilbe to MM put a filter for the reporting about 'no space avaiable' only get one for a planet and not one for each item that the planet try to build and can't ?

I especially second this suggestion. If a planet can't hold one turn's worth or a multiple of 5 units, it's more efficient to queue too many than to build the exact number that will fit one at a time.

Your other ideas are good, too, but I never use the ministers anyway; I prefer the control of micromanaging everything.

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Cap'n Q

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"

Baron Munchausen · #7 June 3rd, 2001, 10:30 PM

quote:
Originally posted by ZeroAdunn:
It would be cool if when you captured a planet you gained tech (random) and your enemy lost a tech or two.

Imagine: After a long and devestating war in which numerous planets were captured or destroyed you find that, uh oh, you've lost about half you tech and will have to research it all over agian, would make for very interesting games.

If you lost ALL EXAMPLES of a technology it would make some sort of sense to also lose the tech. So if all planets with Planetary Shields were destroyed or captured there could be a reasonable chance that your empire would lose the knowledge of how they worked. Even more interesting would be to add a "cultural" element to the game and have technologies lost for widespread and long term rioting. Rioters could be destroying libraries and laboratories along with their own neighborhoods...