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I'd like to add weapon mount modifications for seekers to the list. Especially range modification. Last time I tested it, it would fire on targets at longer ranges, but the seekers would vanish at the unmodified range limit.



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Re: Compiled Questions/Bug List/Wish List
 

Some possible additions:

* In general, ministers should check to see whether they're attempting the impossible. Stellar manipulation ships, for instance, shouldn't try unless they have a movement point left.

* The AI probably should place a lower priority on combat techs and a higher priority on infrastructure if the quadrant is big; perhaps somehow influenced by (systems / non-neutral-player).

* Allowing us to re-order fleets might be nice, if it matters. I'm not sure how ordering works right now.

* Consider basing refit cost limits on the *original* cost of the ship, so you can't attain arbitrary ship-building speed with a refit chain.

* Rebalance tech to make some branches meaningful. For instance, if the computer production/research/intel bonuses were cut to +5/10/15% and the mineral scanners still gave +10/20/30%, there'd be a real reason to use the latter -- sacrificing facility space for more bonuses. ISTR that tachyon sensors are also more expensive to get and use, for a similar benefit, than are hyper-optics.

* Possibly allow an option for an increasing disaster frequency over time, or alternately a "no random events for the first X turns" option -- a event early can break an empire, or make one (e.g. spatial anomaly sends a warship to next to an enemy homeworld, who is promptly forced to surrender and yield another colony tech while doubling population, and...).

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Re: Compiled Questions/Bug List/Wish List
 

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>2) [Game Setup] If a change my mind about the victory condition and choose another one, the old victory condition is not "greyed-out"<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Aren't you supposed to be able to select more than one victory condition?

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Drake - Yes, you can choose more than one. I was referring to when I choose one, then change my mind and choose two different ones. The original is still lighted, even if I "uncheck" the box. This is a minor menu nit, since it does not effect actualy game play as far as I can tell.

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my wish list would be,
1 AI builds and uses base Ships more
2 AI uses troops and invades planets
3 The introduction of a Warp missle which
would be able to go through worm hole and
attack waiting, ships, sats, and/or mines
before ship goes through
4 Large Sats to have better weapon range
for defense of worm holes or have special
worm hole defense base capable of
attacking any ship coming through
5 AI to use warp weapons to open & close them
if they now do, I haven't seen it yet..
6 Editor to create 1 or more races or at
to change racial traits etc,
7 Pirate and/or Nomad Races
8 More catastrophic causes including a space
invader race that hates everybody, set at
random, and catastrophies to happen more
often when set to high
9 AI to use biological weapons, very seldom
if ever does at present
10 a new race that can live on any planet
no matter what the conditions without
having to research rock, ice, gas, oxygen
etc.and only controlled by AI,
just a few ideas...

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My personal wish list

-tactical combat: scrollable combat window
-resource trade - numbers you can type in
-fighters - option of "tactical fighters" only (cannot exist without planetary or carrier support)
-special wormhole engines for fighter units
-special line in facility files: "number of population needed to be operational..."
-drones
-tactical combat: possiblity to set up defensive units manually
-better documentation of units lost, ships lost etc. of own and enemy empires
-cheap general intelligence operations - to have an impression on enemies strengh, log Messages, planet numbers, happiness of population etc.(this is what intelligence today is mainly composed of)

klaus

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by klausD:
-resource trade - numbers you can type in
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Along the same lines, either allow numbers you can type in for amount of cargo to transfer or more options (besides 1, 5, or "All") for cargo transfers.

And allow the same thing in construction queues for units. If my carrier can hold 32 fighters, I want to build 32 fighters, not 35 or 40; and I don't want to build 30 fighters, then spend the next two turns building one fighter per turn.

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My wish list:

0) (Urgent) The 'Ships/Units' screen needs to have an additional button below the 'Show Fleets' button. The name of this button should be something like: 'Show Orphans'. The meaning of this button would be to show ships that are not currently assigned to a fleet.

By using this new button and the 'Show Fleets' button, you could hide all the unwanted/unneeded information about ships that are in a fleet.

1) (Pleeese?) The 'Ships/Units' screen needs to have an additional button below the 'Show Fleets' button. When you click on this button, you are presented with a drop-down, scrollable, list of 'Design Type's. By using this button, you see just your Carriers, or your 'Pop. Transport's or whatever.

2) (PPPleeeese?) I think we need an additional default 'Design Type'. It is:

Scout
- It will explore.
- Once we have explored to the limit of supply, it will hang out on the border and watch for traffic.
- Would be nice if it would pop in and out of storms and nebulae.
- Will cloak if it can.
- Will not initiate combat, even if it has weapons.

3) (Urgent) The game really REALLY needs to ship with at least 255 names in the systemnames.txt file.

Thanks to MM for the wonderfull game. I am recommending it to all my friends.

Miles

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Re: Compiled Questions/Bug List/Wish List
 

Hey miles, good idea with the design types. Send it to Aaron's email and I think it has a good chance of being added.

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My biggest problem has been with repeat building.

1) Make repeat build repeat the LAST item, instead of the first.
This way, when I upgrade my designs, I don't have to cancel a ship in progress, or wait, remember & change the queue on the exact turn it completes. I can also add 'emergency' items to the queue, and after it's done it then drops down to the normal repeat production of defence sats/fighters/mines.

2) When there is not enough space on the planet: DONT WASTE THE UNITS! When the planet runs out of space, the extra units are lost.
INSTEAD, launch any excess units into orbit. They can always be recovered, anyways, and this way, I don't have to worry.
Also, it makes it very easy to build up planetary defences, since you don't have to manually launch every turn.


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As for a wish list, Crossover Techs:
ie. organo-crystalline armor (regen plus shield boost)
Temporal organics, whatever

Totally living ships for organic races: everything grows back if given time.

How to balance it? Hmmm...

[This message has been edited by suicide_junkie (edited 06 March 2001).]