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Jeb said:
"If anything, it bothers me that when I get combat reports in the log at the beginning of my turn it *doesn't* show me a replay of the combat."

Here I must agree with you... a repeat combat feature (a la Stars!), should be great for PBEM games. But I'm not optimistic to see it in SE4...

Paladin: I think that Star Control II (not SCIII), and the X-Com series, are some of the greatest games that I have played...

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I like the idea of the scrolling combat panel. After all, if a ship can outrun the other, how can it be destroyed? I had trouble imagining the justification of where is the ship going, but it can simply mean that interplanetary distance is vast enough (and it is) to have that kind of setting...

What I find completely dull in the whole movement thing is that big ships can move as fast as smaller ships...
There should be a movement bonus as large as the difficulty to hit on the smaller ships, that way it would be more realistic, varied, and fun...
Oh wait, I almost forgot how boring it is to run after a darn colony ship... But now it would be much slower ;-)
And don't even try to ram my escorts with your dreadnoughts, you must bring your own... (or have longer range missiles ;-)

I know there's a way to edit those stats in game, how do we do that?

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Paladin:
What I find completely dull in the whole movement thing is that big ships can move as fast as smaller ships...
There should be a movement bonus as large as the difficulty to hit on the smaller ships, that way it would be more realistic, varied, and fun...
Oh wait, I almost forgot how boring it is to run after a darn colony ship... But now it would be much slower ;-)
And don't even try to ram my escorts with your dreadnoughts, you must bring your own... (or have longer range missiles ;-)

I know there's a way to edit those stats in game, how do we do that?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

You will have to wait for the full game to edit the vehiclesize.txt file. But yes, you can give smaller ships a movement bonus if you want. Realize that colony ships are only 300kt in the current Version. They are the same size as destroyers. It would make a lot of sense to increase their size, and increase the size of a colony module proportionally. Founding a colony is a big project, and ought to require a lot of resources.

Ideally, we'd have a TURN allowance as well as a move allowance. This combined with weapon firing arcs would make the difference between large and small ships very noticeable. Maybe in SE V we can have that. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Jeb,

Perhaps a scrolling combat zone would be a better solution. If a foe has long range missile capability combined with higher tacspeed and you do not, then you will not be able to engage him equally. To have "play balance" be the excuse for a wholly artificial "edge of the Universe" seems a bit silly in a computer-based tactical combat simulation.

As far as the Strategic combat option - I agree that its extremely useful. To be honest after "Homeworld" set the standard for tac space combat...well came close anyway...I really don't care to use SEIV's tac combat system and always use the Strategic option. However, I see no reason for the computer to display the little dots zipping across the screen. At the strategic level, I really only need to know the final result of the engagement.

Again, just my .02c and I'm sure everyone plays differently.

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Since retreat is being discussed again, I'm bumping this up, for the benefit of newbies.