On-line tactical combat idea

[Suicide Junkie]

On a similar note, I was thinking it would be fun to have tactical combats, using a human mediator for now.

With a human orchestrating the action, it would be easy to add weapon arcs, shield facings, real newtonian movement, splash damage weapons, all in a row damage, real emissive armor, shields against "only X" weapons, multiple damage types (WMG moves ship around), newtonian tractor beams (escorts can affect cruisers with a tractor beam, but they move themselves more than the enemy - useful in swarms though) etc.
Some other cool things you could do is have unknown information, and require ships to carry and use LongRange Scanners to see what specific damage they've done. The GM would always mention the obvious stuff, like the ship exploding, or a major chunk of the ship breaking off (all engines destroyed in one hit, say)

The only problem is getting all three people together at once (email, message board, ICQ?).
Other than that, it would be the ultimate tactical combat experience, and would make for some great stories.

[dogscoff]

I think tac combat as it is now would have to be made a little more complex to be a decent stand-alone game, but it's a nice idea.

I suggested a while back that Malfador should produce some small, email sized SE4 spin-off game and release it for free as viral marketting to drum up interest.
This could be suitable.

Other ideas that were suggested (Not all by me)
Space invaders / Galaga using the Race_mini_ images (Download more races for more levels)
Phong Pong
Druk-Man (A drukshocka pac-man gobbling up EEE)
BrEEEkout (Bat the EEE about the screen to demolish the blocks)


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[Lemmy]

hmmm... deja vu
my thread

i still think it's a great idea.