SE4 by Committee

[geoschmo]

I think a person that has acheived the wealth and status associated with a position such as this could be assumed to have some personal means capable of such a vessel. Perhaps in times of great crises these could be "appropriated" by the local or empire authorities, but I think at least for some levels of positions these vehicles should be a basic perk of the position.

Geoschmo

[Lemmy]

k, after reading the Posts in this thread:
(beware, i'm mostly criticizing all your ideas here, don't take this the wrong way, i would very much like to see a game like this)

Too many cooks tends to spoil things.

Not really, in the game i'm in, there are currently 2 players who don't like each other at all, it's basically one thing they don't agree about, one says option a is good cos it will help us win the game, the other says option b is better, because it is "good" from an RP-perspective, adn we'll win anyway. They haven't resorted to namecalling or something like that, and for each statement they make against each other, they bring good arguments, so actually it makes the game better.

Tactical combat
How exactly do you want to do this? Over IRC or some IM program?
Even then, how long will it take for the secretary to move, say 10 ships? I mean the general has to be aware of the current situation to make the right decisions.
And you can't

Mortality, Game location
That's gonna be one big administration, keeping track of where everyone is in the universe, if they can do certain action or not

- Individual planets: small ones seem popular with RPers and those with little time to be in the spotlight. Manages ships in orbit.

What managing is there to do with ships in orbit?
Retrofit and disband (and maybe tactical combat).
They can't be moved, cos then the governor will lose jurisdiction over the ship.
Same goes for

- System lords: Rules all planets in a system that have no individual ministers. Manages ships making intra-system journeys.

Signups:
...

Whoaa, slow down there, it would be best to sort out jurisdictions and job descriptions first, how many ministers are there? What minister gets to control what? How are ministers chosen? Who plays the game? What exactly do governors do?

oh well, that's all for now, maybe more later.

[TerranC]

I love the idea! I'd like to be Design minister, or naming minister, If possible.

[Lemmy]

I'd like to be test pilot, testing new designs in the combat simulator, adn reporting back to the design minister

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Lemmy:
Tactical combat
How exactly do you want to do this? Over IRC or some IM program?
Even then, how long will it take for the secretary to move, say 10 ships? I mean the general has to be aware of the current situation to make the right decisions.
And you can't

Looks like you stopped in mid sentance here. But basically tactical combat would be simple. The secrtary does most of the empire work and then when it comes time for the battle he can save the game and email it to the admiral fo the fleet in question and let him control it for the battle, save the game and send it back to the secretary without ending turn. THe only time it would be a problem is if the enemy attacks during their turn. The Secretary might have to just control the fleet in that case.

Or maybe we could do strategic combat and the Admiral player is just a person that makes decisions on a large scale, lobying the senate for new ships, giving fleet move to orders, setting strategies, etc.

Geoschmo

[ December 17, 2002, 21:37: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
As far as the planet bound ministers, senator, governors, lords. Why not have personal ships assigned to each character. If we use some kind of unit to represent the player then it's asimple matter of having small cheap vessels that have a cargo unit on them. You could make the crew quarters hold cargo and then load the minister unit on them. For that matter the ship admirals could be done this way as well. Once we work out the specifics it wouldn't be that hard to do in game, and it would add a lot of depth to the idea I think.

Geoschmo

Wow, finally a use for escorts

[tesco samoa]

Defense: Manages the overall inter-system distribution of warships
or general...

Perhaps later one of the senators can stumble and fall and i can take over...

but a general is where i wish to be...

P.S. I was the first to vote general in the other thread....