[jimbob55]

It would be nice to have to hunt for warp points, like Starfire.
Some kind of survey type sensor / Xr component for ships to allow scanning for warp points / planets within one square?

Assigning noise values to the engine tech, so level 1 engines make lots of 'noise' and this decreases as you use higher tech engines. Scaling the noise so that large Groups of ships in a square make sensing them easier.

A simple overlay of the system with a value assigned to each square for noise. The more squares a ship moves in a turn, the higher its noise rating. The more ships in a square, the higher the noise rating again. If a battle is fought in a square this increases the noise rating some more.

Basic (fitted as standard in the bridge) sensors could detect noise as say: 1 noise point at range one, 2 at range 2 etc. Warp points make a noise rate 2.

Just off the top of my head.
Active sensors for the EMCON model would increase noise level by 5 or so. Cloaking with passive sensors would result in a negative noise modifier for the ship.

Anybody got a clue how to program this lot?

[This message has been edited by jimbob55 (edited 21 January 2001).]