Suggestions for Space Empires V

[spoon]

Suicide Junkie said:
I don't see any benefit, there...

How exactly would it be good, and how would it avoid munchkin-ism?

People would enjoy it. So there is the benefit right there.

Munchinism is easily avoided - just have a setting for Racial Experience minimums and maximums (default to 0 and 0) during game setup.

[Suicide Junkie]

Would it not be better to simply have a text field for entering the exact number of racial points allowed in your game?

[spoon]

That is a good suggestion but it solves a different problem.

People want experience gains so they can feel like their race grows in strength over time. If they just assign themselves a number arbirtrarily, rather than being an in-game mechanic, it would be less satisfying.

[Suicide Junkie]

That would be fine if one game had anything to do with the next... But they don't (and IMO, they shouldn't)

What if you were allowed to purchase those additional race modifiers as the game progressed... say, every 10 turns you get 1 racial point for every "X" racial experience points you've collected so far?

[spoon]

That would be fine if one game had anything to do with the next... But they don't (and IMO, they shouldn't)

They don't because there isn't anything connecting them. Add experience, and they do.

[Suicide Junkie]

But why should they have anything connecting them?

It would be like playing Doom, and starting out with a blue armor because I got to level 10 before dying in my last game.
Makes no sense!

[spoon]

Making sense < Having fun.

People like the sense of gaining experience. Doesn't have to be completely logical. SE4 isn't a sim game, and so it shouldn't worry about realism if it gets in the way of fun.

[spoon]

What if you were allowed to purchase those additional race modifiers as the game progressed... say, every 10 turns you get 1 racial point for every "X" racial experience points you've collected so far?

Another fine solution to a different problem!