FTL propulsion in progress

[Suicide Junkie]

I want to simulate SF FTL reasonably well.

Things that my method currently supports:
- FTL around the edge of a system to get to the far side.
- Multi-turn travel times entirely FTL.
- Go from any system to any other system directly, though it may take a while.
- FTL space cannot be blockaded, and completely protecting a system from FTL attacks in nearly impossible. (Random movement ability in hyperspace disrupts blockading fleets)
- Ships can be lost in hyperspace: with random movement of 2, a ship with 1MP is helpless and must wait to drift past a starsystem.

Putting all the normal->hyperspace connections on stars, say, would simplify the mapbuilding process immensely, but we would have blockaded FTL jumppoints, and no local FTL (around the edge of a system)

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Of couse if you use the center, you have to do something about black hole systems.

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Not nessesarily. The black hole does not do damage when you fly over it, only if your ship ends its turn within 2 squares of the center. You could give orders to FTL in & out on the same turn when exploring.
Any ship with 4 or more MP could FTL in and then escape from a blackhole before it can do any damage.
A well designed BattleMoon or Baseship could survive the black hole's damage indefinitely, and FTL away at any time.

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I've now finished:
16/16 hyperspace systems
182/180 hyperspace intraconnections.
144/1320 hyper-to-normalspace interconnections (24 per system * 55 systems)
As such, I estimate that I am 22% done.

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Here's an example of what I am talking about.

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I don't know if its just me, but when I click that link, I don't get a file, just a new window of this thread page!

[This message has been edited by suicide_junkie (edited 03 September 2001).]