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Originally posted by geoschmo:
Sounds interesting.
Storms can be made to block all sensors. That would make everybodies homeworld immune to attack. Very interesting.
One possible problem. You will have to test this to be sure. I think if your only planet is obscured by a storm, you cannot make contact and thus will have no in game communication with the other races. Seems like that happened on a test map I was playing with once. Of course that may or may not be a bad thing depending on what you are going for with the game. If so it would eliminate any intel.
Geoschmo
[ 10 April 2002: Message edited by: geoschmo ]
Hmm. The planets could still be attacked with a storm, they just couldn't be seen correct? I wanted to make it so you couldn't see what the others were doing unless they made a gambit for the prize world or unless they attacked you.
I hadn't considered the problem with no contact though. I'll have to experiment to see if that is true or not as I did not want to keep people from trash-talking each other. Regardless I am not sure intel will be a major factor. Since you only have 1 shipyard, you probably will have better things to do than tie it up replacing your facilities with intel facilities.
Speaking of which, can someone tell me how to fiddle the data files so the homeworlds start with monolith facilities instead of mineral/organic/rad extractors? And possibly with a resource converter as well...I don't know much about data-file editting so tips would be appreciated.