Newbie/demo question

[Phoenix-D]

Fighters can't warp. Neither can bases, sats, or mines (since they can't move)

You can't make WPs anything other than instant unless you link them to a non-usable "hyperspace" system which has the link to the *real* destination.

Phoenix-D

[zircher]

Hmmm, that might work. Such empty systems would represent the space between worlds and allow for 'deep space' combat. Multiple nodes would lengthen the journey. Thanks.

Perhaps I can set up an AI behavior for low tech races where they will not use warp points...
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TAZ

[Phoenix-D]

No warp point AIs = the neutrals.

Phoenix-D

[Q]

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Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
No warp point AIs = the neutrals.

Phoenix-D

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Not completely. The neutral AI empires send sometimes ships out to other systems, but will not make colonies there. I even had a full technology game where a neutral AI empire blew up the sun of a adjacent system. Nasty surprise!

[dogscoff]

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can warp points be set to something other than instantaneous?
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No, but this would be a good addition to the game - would be very useful for scenario builders.

Another one for the wish list.

[capnq]

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Next fun question, can warp points be set to something other than instantaneous? If I wanted warp lines to represent trade routes, I'd like for them to take X number of turns based upon distance and possibly drive types.

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You might want to look at suicide_junkie's FTL propulsion map, and my Hypermaze mod (URL in sig), which was inspired by it.

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Cap'n Q
My first mod! Hypermaze quadrant
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

[This message has been edited by capnq (edited 27 September 2001).]

[zircher]

Thanks. SJ's map is... interesting, but perhaps a bit too convoluted for what I want (being the simple wargamer that I am.) I found that laying the star systems on a hex grid renders the instantaneous effect moot with a minimum of distortion. The warp points show up as a grid of triangles. By placing the warp points at (0,3),(0,9),(6,0),(6,12),(12,3), and (12,9) within a system, each warp point is equi-distant from each other and simply links the edges of star systems together. The 'perk' of such a layout is that no single warp point is better than another. So, the free roaming nature of the universe that I want to model is preserved.

The 'grid' option in the map editor comes close, but it skips some intersections and cuts corners on others. Perhaps a future Version of the map editor will have a true grid setting (one system at every intersection even if it is empty, with an all diagonals or no diagonals option) and a hex grid
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TAZ

[Oh yeah, stopped by the FedEX ground terminal at lunch time just so I could play with the full Version before getting home.]