SE:V Poll

[Barnacle Bill]

Artaud said:
I like the "fog of war" as well, but I think it will make SE a smaller, slower game. You'll spend more time exploring each and every individual system, and/or researching sensors, and less time expanding.

Edit - I somehow erased what I wrote here... Actually, I think it will make the galaxy seem bigger because it will take a lot longer to explore it all.

Artaud said:
And bigger systems--no, I don't want this. The way it is now, when you zoom out to see the entire system, the planets look horrible and your ships look like ants, when you can see them at all.

I know it's not "realistic" to have ships that appear to be half the size of planets, but this is a game, after all. What's the point of building a navy if you can't watch your ships pass through the system?

I'm not talking about graphics. I couldn't care less about that. I grew up with cardboard counters. Blips like a radar screen would be fine by me...

I'm talking about a real search phase, where it takes many turns to cross the system and sensor range is less than one turn's movement range, so you have to find the enemy before you can fight them, and if he spreads out to search more ground the larger force risks being defeated in detail. This creates the opportunity for an operational situation like Juteland or Midway. That's what I want!

BTW, that's the direction Starfire (the board game that originally inspired SE) eventually went. Except for warp point assaults, you spend a lot of time manuevering around on the sysyem map and combat only happens when fleets are in the same system hex.