What would you like to see in an expansion pack

Nitram Draw · #1 May 4th, 2001, 01:31 AM

I would like to see:
The ability to adjust starting techs.
A wider variety of components that do specific things, as in Trachmyr's #13, so that you must adjust throughout the game to different strategies. Not just have bigger Versions of the original items.
An AI that is a little more on the ball, one that analyized the overall game situation better.
Improved AI diplomacy.
Something to make specific systems/planets more valuable than others. A center of your culture if you like whos loss would be devastating to your empire.
Facilities that had an empire wide effect.
A population requirement for each facility to operate at full value and the ability to rank facilities on each planet in order of importance.

rdouglass · #2 May 3rd, 2001, 02:03 PM

You guys just about covered 'em all. My main requests would be...

1) Adjust starting techs like SE3. Specifically being able to assign more than 1 level of any given tech. Has been explained many times....

2) Want my asteroids back! I like using 'em as military SY's.

3) Better multi-player support. I have not yet played a multi-player game 'cause I'm not really interested in playing for 3 months at 1-2 turns per day.

4) A 'Mod Manager'. I envision an interface similar to Win9x/NT's Add/Remove Programs control panel. Since the mods are text-based, I suspect an app could be made to track dates / additions / deletions to the text files and remove / restore / recreate those changes as needed. Same concept with ship sets, etc. I have wanted to attempt such a project (as well as do some modding myself), but my programming time lately has been dedicated to SQL web databases. (I think this was discussed in previous threads).

Many others mentioned in this thread, but the above are my main 3 wishes.

mac5732 · #3 May 3rd, 2001, 04:33 PM

I would like to see

1. Ground Combat, maybe similiar to what the old star general game had but one that actually works.

2. Planet Wp's to have greater range with the different size mounts, this keeps players from standing off and glazing it with missles. These extra ranges would only be for planet bound WP's. It makes sense that a planet would have larger mounts then those on ships and capable to firing farther with both seekers & gun types

3. Workable Drones that can go through worm holes and target planets/ships in other systems

4. more ship designs to pick from

5. more races to be randomly/preselected from for a game

6. incorportate some of the best mods such as the pirate/civil war/ 1.71 mods

7. Last inprove AI smarts

just some ideas mac

Nitram Draw · #4 May 3rd, 2001, 04:35 PM

Mac,
There is a small mod available that gives the extra range to the WP, I think it is called Compenhancement. I agree that they should have longer range. Check out the mod I think you would like it, it makes approaching a planet VERY dangerous!

[This message has been edited by Nitram Draw (edited 03 May 2001).]

mac5732 · #5 May 3rd, 2001, 04:55 PM

N.D. Thanks, I'll take a look when I get a break from work. probably this weekend.

tks again

just some ideas Mac

chewy027 · #6 May 3rd, 2001, 07:16 PM

Lets not forget about the Civil War

And being able to play with more than 20 races at a time would be nice

capnq · #7 May 3rd, 2001, 10:48 PM

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Now these are just a few of the things I would like to see. What are some that you would like to see? Please keep in mind that the idea of this thread is for the benefit of an expansion pack and not a debate over what works and does not work with the current game. Just post what you would pay to have.

Most of these suggestions are good, but there's a couple that I don't think could work. Should I start another thread to discuss the problems I see with them?

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