Most bang-for-the-buck hard code changes

Rich04 · #1 August 24th, 2001, 08:43 PM

What I would like to see (in addition to several of the ideas below).

When playing a saved Empire. Ships not showing up from the previous game in the ship design screen until they can be built. Or some way to toggle Don't show ships you can't build. It is the # one reason I start a new Empire each game rather than play an old one with all the ships designed already.

Suicide Junkie · #2 August 24th, 2001, 08:52 PM

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When playing a saved Empire. Ships not showing up from the previous game in the ship design screen until they can be built. Or some way to toggle Don't show ships you can't build. It is the # one reason I start a new Empire each game rather than play an old one with all the ships designed already.

Save/Load ship designs seperately from races! Just like SE III!

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Rich04 · #3 August 24th, 2001, 09:33 PM

I agree with you there SJ. SE3 did have a better method. You could just load a ship file and only the ships you have the tech for are loaded.

CW · #4 August 25th, 2001, 10:30 AM

I would like to see a new tick box in the strategies screen: "fire until all engines destroyed". Mightily useful for my scouts armed only with ionic dispersers and wormhole beams.

Also fix the boarding parties! They don't work in strategic combat.

[This message has been edited by CW (edited 25 August 2001).]

tesco samoa · #5 August 25th, 2001, 05:16 PM

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shonae · #6 August 25th, 2001, 05:35 PM

Rollo, Thanks for the edited QuadrantTypes.txt file, I must admit I hadn't thought of that.

However the point still stands that you can't have the Black Hole systems without crippling the AI somewhat especially if it starts next to one.

I did like the strategic aspects of having an early effective (mostly) defense against enemies until later in the game as well as the potential of hampering your expansion to other systems.

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capnq · #7 August 25th, 2001, 08:30 PM

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1. The ability to set starting points when setting up the game.

I assume you mean setting them before randomly generating the map? Because you can already do this in the Map Editor.

Which gives me another idea: add a toggle for whether a random map has ruins, rather than only allowing them on "blind" maps as it does now.

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