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StrategiaInUltima said:
Halo Ring World
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Ahhh! Head pain. Tell me you're not labouring under the delusion that Bungie came up with those things. They existed a wee while before Halo, trust me. Go pick up a Banks novel some time (and they probably existed prior to him as well).
Not trying to come down on you or anything, but that irritates me. It irritates me enough to make me delurk.
That much.
Um. Time for something positive, methinks.
- Formula based tech levels. Good, so long as they don't result in ridiculous power inflation
- Real-Time battles. Oh yes. Oh yes oh yes oh yes. But slow real time. A spaceship that weighs a million tons or so is going to steer like a cow. Plus, players need time to strategise, even in real-time.
- Better yet, no seams between the battle and system screens. Have everything in real time. Let ships move in and out of the battle zone. Reinforcements, retreats; moving lines of battle. Delaying tactics while a fleet gathers around home world.
- No redundancies. Or, at least tone the problem down a little. Yes, new tech is going to make your smaller ships obselete. But, turning a ship of the line in its prime into a jumped up shuttle craft with a turn of the ship construction tech is a bit irritating. Not to mention urrealistic. Smaller ships should be good for some things.
- Like speed. Implement newtonian physics; if a big mother of a carrier wants to outrun a tiddly gunboat it better have a hell of a lot of engines. And link chance to hit to transversal velocity; if they're faster they can dodge better.
- And cheaper. Obviously the power : cost ratio should improve with each generation, but it should be cheaper and faster to build smaller ships- enough to make a difference.
- Sublight interstellar travel; yes, please
- Ground combat. Ever play superpower 2? [censored] game, but interesting world view. It was a globe that you could rotate as you wish. If you balanced things right, you could have people managing a ground war and a space battle at the same time. And if you could make it fun at the same time, that would be grand.
And I'm done. I don't think I've justified half of that, though...