[Darkwind]

I was thinking we would represent ground combat. Also, I might as well lay down what I think should be done with ships, also tying in to planets and spells:

I, personally, think that space should have no or few people (due to lack of anywhere to put said people). Thus, planets would contain all (or almost all) of the population. The recruitable ships would likely be small and weak, though they wouldn't cost much. Also recuitable would be commander "orbital building stations", which would have magic. As all (or most) of the spells we currently have will likely be scrapped, the Conjuration line would become a "blueprint" line, which would likely start with a number of blueprints at the beginning.

Builder ships could use gems to create the more powerful ships which couldn't be launched from the planet (and can't enter a planet). There would likely be a spell to summon droves of the recruitable ships, too. I'm thinking that most of the "blueprint" spells will be national, so that both the zergrushkekeke and the size10deathstarfleet races couldn't both summon the same ships. Mercenaries could likely be included as well, as 0-resource units in space with large amounts of upkeep (different from the mercenary bidding used in-game, which would hopefully also be used).

So, for planets, should they all link to other planets (and stars) in the system? Or should one have to conquer a planet from above in order to bring men with them (or use ships that can carry a few men)? Should stars (if included as conquerable) link to all other stars, to only the nearest stars, or be essentially the same as deep space? What will we do about ground-unit commanders and items (I'm thinking we divide slots between ships and ground units, so, say, the ship might get the helmet, boot, and chest slots, but ground commanders get the hand and misc slots)? How will we scale ship power versus human power? Will this wall of text made up solely of questions ever end?