Intergalactic Civil War !!??

mac5732 · #1 April 9th, 2001, 02:57 PM

In ref to homeworld and starting with multi plantes, why not just have computer when generating starting maps, assign or designate one planet say with minimum of 2000 pop as home planet. It could put your govt facility on it as well. this way when game starts every player would have home planet with facitliy. Home world would be hard to get to revolt, but here again, attitude would come in to play. Also if you use attitude and homeworld triggers, you should probably beef up or tweak the facilities that create happy pop. maybe add another level or 2. Needs to be balanced.

just some ideas mac

mac5732 · #2 April 9th, 2001, 03:18 PM

when it comes to how many planets revolt, if you use the system rebellion, then all planets in that system revolt. Empire rebellion could be based on percentage of total planets, systems that have already revolted count against total. to try and make it easier to mod or hard code, maybe set a parameter of what exactly is a small, med, large or huge empire, base number of planets that revolt on a percentage or set number for each type. example, small - 10 planets or less, med - 20 or less, large
30 or less, huge over 30, then when empire wide revolt happens the computer could divide by percentage minus systems revolted planets. a small or med empire should have less chance of multiple split empires, large and huge have 25-40% chance of multiple split off empires, but all should be at war with original empire. Or something similiar to this idea.
anyone else have ideas?

just some ideas

mac

Sirkit · #3 April 9th, 2001, 04:52 PM

Inter galactic civil war, ok chewie put me down as a huge YES!!

chewy027 · #4 April 9th, 2001, 07:08 PM

Mac, again thanks for the great suggestions I'll upgrade the overview

Sirkit I'll post your vote in the vote thread unless you want to do it yourself

At least i'll upgrade the vote overview.

Thanks for the feedback

chewy027 · #5 April 9th, 2001, 07:19 PM

Something I just thought of. Do moons rebel along with their orbiting planet or are they treated seperately?

OK Mac so lets say there is a small empire with 20 planets instead of saying -10 lets say up to 25% of the empire (5 planets) could break away. And give a percentege to each size empire as to how many could break away. Is this what you had in mind?

Thoughts on the above questions?

Puke · #6 April 9th, 2001, 08:35 PM

quote:
Originally posted by chewy027:
Something I just thought of. Do moons rebel along with their orbiting planet or are they treated seperately?

seperate. at least thats the way it works now.

how about balkanization of empires? as a varaition of civil war where 1 large chunk of your empire breaks off, what if you had 50-75% of it break of into 10-20 little chunks?

i think its fairly clear that break away pieces of an empire in this game are not a real space borne threat, but they are really a hassle for the lost resources. as far as the balkan thing goes, it would be more effective if those factions concentrated all their resources on planetary defense WPs / Sats / Troops / local mines. they know they cant win a space war, but darn if they wont preserve their way of life! this would be much more effective coupled with penalties for orbital bombardmant. the lost facil/pop/10% resource penalty is good, but maybe a trade loss with your neighbors or something, or empire wide happyness hit (oh my god, we're bombing our own people?!)

chewy027 · #7 April 10th, 2001, 01:03 AM

Puke you don't think a large chunk of your empire splitting off could be a real threat?
To me a bunch of non-cooperating little factions would be easier to take back.

What does everyone else think?

BTY have you voted yet?