Intergalactic Civil War !!??

Oggy ben Doggy · #1 April 2nd, 2001, 07:10 PM

I like chewy's idea. Like if you have a bunch of conquored planets and they are rioting, or even if enemy empires use subVersion. Anytime one rebels, there is a chance that others will as well.

Then you pop into ground combat mode. Even if you win, you will lose some ground troops

Q · #2 April 2nd, 2001, 07:17 PM

I don't mind too much if one planet rebels or a planet explodes. Already harder if a star becomes a supernova and kills the entire system. But if half of the empires splits off and turns against you?? And this as a random event???? In my opinion this would turn SE IV from a strategy game to a game of chance and I really would not like it.

Master Belisarius · #3 April 2nd, 2001, 07:23 PM

I must agree with "Q". Have not sense to me, if we're talking about a full random event.

Nitram Draw · #4 April 2nd, 2001, 07:28 PM

Half an empire would be a lot but how about one system rebelling or planets rioting? You have to give them a small chance of survival otherwise it is no different than what we have now.

Suicide Junkie · #5 April 2nd, 2001, 08:19 PM

One of the major problems with the rebelling, is that the rebels start with just a planet, likely having unbalanced or non-existant resource production.
I think that when a rebellion happens, the game should figure out which of your planets each of your units/ships is closest to.
If they're close to the rebel's planet, they will join the rebellion.

That way, the rebels will have a chance to do something. If the rebelling planet immediately built a mineral miner & started with full resource storage, then they wouldn't just lay down and die like they do now.

GruelThePurple · #6 April 2nd, 2001, 11:15 PM

In this same thought, I figured that the ability to incite a civil war, at least in part, would be similar to the Intel Project of Puppet Pollitical Parties. If you look at the parameters for the operation, it allows for a counter of the number of places to target...

To make a long story short, you can not incite rebellion in any more than a single planet at a time.

While the basic ability may be there, the implimentation of it is not. At least not from within the framework of the Intelligence engine.

chewy027 · #7 April 2nd, 2001, 11:19 PM

The original idea i had wasn't to make it a random event i agree it could get crazy. but that could be a possibility. What i had in mind was some sort of thing that triggered it. Then there could be a set goal for the computer to advance towards. Like I said before maybe the homeworld or something like that.