[geoschmo]

Stonemill,

It's not a bad idea, but it strikes me an an uneccesary complication for very little in return. The same can be accomplished now by simply not moving your ships into a sector with a planet of a race you don't have a treaty with. With your two level treaty you would in effect be blockading the planet, which is pretty much an act of war in itself.

I would like to see some refinements to the ship strategies though. For one it would be nice to be able to set the ship strategy for individual ships, rather than only for all ships. And "Dont' get hurt" is a little weak. A better stategy option would be "defensive posture" or something like that. Where your ship would not attack another ship or planet unless it made hostile moves towards it. Rather than run for the corner it would move forward or backwards in a logical tactical manner, but only in a limited amount of space on the caombat map. It's not really a treaty, but this would help prevent the planet glassing you talked about.

Geoschmo

[ October 21, 2002, 15:46: Message edited by: geoschmo ]