Re: New Features You Would Like to See That Would Have to Be Hard Coded
The #1 thing I'd like to see changed, which would require hard-coded, is to do something about the current inability to stop your "allies" from colonizing in your systems (short of breaking the treaty & declaring war). This, in effect, ruins the diplomacy system for me because I never agree to anything higher than non-intercourse. My suggestion for the simplest way to fix this would be the following changes:
1) You can’t colonize, invade or remote mine a planet (or asteroid belt) in any system you have not claimed.
2) You can't claim a system already claimed by another race with which you have contact, unless you are at war with the previous claimant (or in that nebulous "no treaty" state that exists from first contact until you either go to war or form a treaty).
3) Replace the option "automatically claim any system colonized" with "automatically claim any system explored", but this would not violate #2.
4) If you agree to a treaty without resolving all conflicting system claims, both sides can act as if it is their system, on a "first come" basis for each individual system body (remote mining in progress would prevent colonization by another race). However, in such contested systems a "no peace beyond the line" state would exist- combat would not be initiated if you move into a sector containing ships/colonies belonging to your "roomie", but you could use the "attack" button to initiate combat manually (only in contested systems) no matter what treaty exists. Such combat in contested systems would cause less AI anger than normal (i.e. undeclared limited war).
5) If the other race agrees to "give" you the system, that means they abandon their claim to it (as now), but they can't reclaim it later (except while at war with you) as they usually do now, plus it means IMMEDIATELY abandoning all colonies they have not agreed to give to you.
6) Mines would detonate on any race's ships unless they have a Military Alliance or better with the mine owner, so that mines can be used to protect your interests in contested systems.
[This message has been edited by Barnacle Bill (edited 09 March 2001).]
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