[Suicide Junkie]

How about eliminating the critical 'first shot' factor in large battles? Simple to do - move and fire the ships one at a time, player A then player B. Just randomising who gets to fire ALL their weapons first was not enough in my opinion.

That's a major advantage of real time combat.

While the enemy beam weapons are incoming, your ships can launch torpedoes: only having a longer range will let you fire first, and even that dosen't guarantee you'll hit first, since torpoedoes are slower than lasers

[ June 02, 2003, 16:52: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]