Patch wishlist

[capnq]

The only real-time game I've kept on my HD is Red Baron II. I think being forced to finish game-time months' worth of strategic planning in real-time minutes is absurd. Time limits are only useful to keep live human vs. human games moving. If MM wants to tackle adding real-time play, it definitely should be optional.

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Cap'n Q

[Trachmyr]

For the AI to be smarter when building ship componets or facilities that have more than one ability.

For instance, if you tell the AI to build a facility that has the abilities of a PORT and a facility with the abilities of a SHIPYARD, and you have a "multi"-facility with both abilities... it will build TWO of the "multi"-facilities, NOT one!

Same thing happens for componets (although care would have to be taken with supply storage and cargo space, perhaps adding new lines for both of these abilities).

[MadImmortalMan]

I just want all abilities to be available for components/facilities/etc.

[Trachmyr]

Oh, yes and get restrictions (fully) working!

[Jason2]

I saw RTS mentioned ...... NNooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

If this game series ever goes RTS that is the day I leave.... sigh.

Someone mentioned a race that is super xenophobic etc. etc. - have you played with the Rage yet ? Very similar. Or the mod-packed XiChung or Sergetti??

Has anyone seen the AI use base ships??

If not, that would get my vote - with a general increase of the AI's overall strategy so it is more aggressive and makes more runs on your planets - glassing them of course.

Jason2

[Jourin]

1. Improved AI ship construction: The various races have a good initial ship component list, but no variety. Once you discover a race's ship building weakness it's a piece of cake and they don't adjust. Maybe add a tiered approach to the ship construction. Then an attack ship or fighter could have a primary ship design and at least 2 alternates with a percent set for each design. Then a race could be 40%, 30%, 30% in different attack ship designs with 10 ship increments. Do the same with defensive ship designs and you can get a very could mixture. In the above example, the AI would build 4 primary, then 3 1st alternate, then 3 2nd alternate, and then start again with 4 primary. This would require adding a percentage to the ship construction field. An example would be to have 40% have shields with beam weapons and 30% have armor with beam weapons and 30% have shield with missile; then a PPB would not be a race killer. Other examples would be 40 Organic, 30 missile, and 30 beam. The defensive ship could be PD 80%, smart bomb 10%, and plague bomb 10%. Various AIs could have different percentages and different designs, but the key point is the various ship designs could compensate each other's weakness and build on the strengths making a much more deadly fleet-like what a human does. Do the same with fighters. I think one of the reasons the AI gets easy is because ever ship it builds is the same with the same weakness. A mixture of different ship designs would increase the difficulty of the AI.

2. Improve the ground combat. See previous post.

[Atrocities]

11. Positive Random Events. Events that benefit the player. IE new technology discovered by accident. Derelect ship discovered with new technology. An eco event has IMPROVED the value of a planet.

I suspect that a mod maker could do this as most of the random events are more than likely a negative % value which I speculate, (again I am the reason the Dumby books are written) that if the negative value were changed to a postive value with new events listed, they could become positive events.

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"We've made too many compromises already, too many retreats! They invade our space and we fall back -- they assimilate entire worlds and we fall back! Not again! The line must be drawn here -- this far, no further! And I will make them pay for what they've done!" -- Patric Stewart as Captain Picard
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