Role Playing Mod

[Val]

Make him take some space - he is important and would have guards and such with him. Also, you could really make him a troop type and occasionally lead assaults and defend the planet (s)he is on.

You could also add a component (in the name of roleplaying) called "Leader's Quarters" and make it a smaller cargo component all around. Could also give the ship a bonus against boarders since they are defending their leader.

[geoschmo]

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Originally posted by suicide_junkie:
For RPers, they would not be able to change the ship's orders unless the ship had
a) a functional FTL comm.
b) a functional lightspeed comm Plus line-of-sight to a ship(with FTL comm) or colony owned by the player.

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Ooo, now that's an interesting idea. Hard to enforce, but most of these would be hard to enforce. It would have to be dependant on the players to enforce themselves.

I wouldn't say no order changes though. You need to give the ships captain/fleet admiral some leeway. If he is out of contact with the empire there should be some acceptable ROE or allow him some inititive to deal with situations that come up in his immediate vicinity. But no sending him back a system because the enemy has outflanked him, unless you can demonstrate how he would have got this information.

This way he could deal with an enemy fleet that is in the same system, but he might be sitting idle one warp point away while the enemy trashes the colonies he just left.

I might suggest the FTL comm must be on a warp point to function, but make it small enough to fit on a sattelite. Then you would have comm bouy's on each warp point out to the frontier. Of course when the enemy destroys them, you lose communication. That would be pretty cool.

Geo

[Val]

You'd also have to let a player know when you destroy a sat relay so they know comm has been cut.

[geoschmo]

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Originally posted by Val:
You could make the ruler a troop type, then cart him around as cargo

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You know, it's really a shame we can't rename specific unit's like we can ships. Of course if you have a unit type of leader, and then design several of them with identical components, and only build one of each design it would have the same effect. That could work.

[geoschmo]

Oh man! Have an extra race in the game controlled by a referee make the leader units and then give them to the players. That way they can't make them themselves and there is more control over it.

Make some of the weapon platforms instead of troops so they aren't killed by troop invasion, but can be captured. That could be your emporer.

You generals would need to be troops cause that way they could assist in an invasion. You expect them to get killed if things go really badly anyway.

Geo

[geoschmo]

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Originally posted by Val:
You'd also have to let a player know when you destroy a sat relay so they know comm has been cut.

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They would get a combat report when the sat was destroyed.

[Val]

Geo:

Nice idea about the additional "Ref" race!