Mod idea: The Shrinking Galaxy

[Wydraz]

This idea was partly inspired by the Event Severity thread. It makes for an interesting strategic twist on the game, and is simple to implement.

Events.txt uses only one event - Close Warp Point. Change Settings.txt to make the event chances 1000, 2000 and 3000 (These should be tweaked, but they worked well for testing).

Now the game becomes a race to colonize away from the homeworld as quickly as possible as the warp point network breaks down. Stellar Manipulation technology becomes a high priority.

I originally included Open Warp Point as an event, but that one doesn't seem to do anything. It would have been interesting just to have the warp point network changing constantly...

[Fyron]

Hmm... not a bad idea. I might have to start a PBW game using such a mod.

[PvK]

I'm confident that I've seen warp points open as random events - maybe it's a slightly different name?

PvK

[narf poit chez BOOM]

interesting.

[Wydraz]

Originally posted by PvK:
I'm confident that I've seen warp points open as random events - maybe it's a slightly different name?

PvK

Only two Warp Point events are mentioned in events.txt.

Warp Point - Closed
Warp Point - Opened

I even cut and pasted them to make sure I didn't miss something. The 'Opened' event never seemed to happen. I tested it once with a small galaxy, and saved tha map after 80 turns. All the WPs had vanished, and no new ones had opened.

If someone else wants to try it out...? Maybe I screwed up the events entry somehow, but I have no way to tell.

[PvK]

Hmmmmm... it's possible my memory is confused. Maybe I was just remembering having warp points close randomly.

PvK