Need scenario ideas

Puke · #1 December 26th, 2001, 06:17 PM

for that to work, you would have to have the technology to build them in the first place. you can only repair components that you have researched. if you just mothball them, they can be ships of any technology level.

DirectorTsaarx · #2 December 26th, 2001, 06:48 PM

Can you analyze damaged ships & get tech advances from the damaged components? If you can, then with a big enough fleet of mothballed ships, you could analyze some ships to get the tech, then repair the rest.

Or maybe you should just be forced to protect the mothballed fleet until you could research enough tech to repair it (providing a bit more interest to the scenario).

geoschmo · #3 December 26th, 2001, 09:20 PM

Nope, you can't analyze damaged components.

Btw, I will be posting my new sceario along these lines later today. Hope it's a good one. It was fun setting it up.

Geoschmo

Yorlum · #4 December 26th, 2001, 11:42 PM

Hey! I've seen that scenario! It was called "Barbarian Wars" in the old Nexus Magazine for Starfire Empires. It is an excellent game, using a 'closed' Warp Point to section off the "Dead Sector" of the Empire from the "Live" one. and now that you've brought up the idea, does anybody know if it is possible to create "closed" Warp Points, which are not immediately detectable?

Your defensive strategy can go up in smoke when you see the Bugs pouring into your Main Construction yards that you thought were safe...

Phoenix-D · #5 December 26th, 2001, 11:56 PM

"know if it is possible to create "closed" Warp Points, which are not immediately detectable?"

Sorta. You can do this in the map editor (Last time I checked anyway, a few patches ago) BUT the warp-point that results is one-way only.

In other words, if you can't see it, you can't use it. So you can warp into a system with no way back to where you came..

Phoenix-D

Puke · #6 December 27th, 2001, 08:39 AM

or you could make one with the sector cloak ability.

geoschmo · #7 December 28th, 2001, 02:17 AM

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Originally posted by Puke:
or you could make one with the sector cloak ability.

Actually I tried this a few patches ago and it didn't work. I haven't checked recently, but don't think it's been changed.

The problem is you can't mask stellar objects (Stars, warp points, storms) only planets and asteroids.

You miight be able to do a mod with a blank bitmap as a warp point picture. Then you wouldn't be able to see it until you went through it, or at least clicked on it. I think the AI would probably know it's there though.

Geoschmo

[ 27 December 2001: Message edited by: geoschmo ]