SEIV Skills Challenge Game

douglas · #1 January 4th, 2007, 10:01 PM

Any rules for player interaction? Unless I'm misinterpreting your initial post, each player will encounter two other players before even attempting the challenges and the group of three will all have the same path to go through, which could lead to some unusual diplomacy and possibly people winning or losing based largely on the skills and inclinations of the other two players in their cluster.

Also, I'd suggest disabling Stellar Manipulation so you don't get players bypassing the entire challenge with warp point openers.

bearclaw · #2 January 4th, 2007, 11:59 PM

Stellar man and Intel would be disabled so as to avoid others being able to 'steal' maps.

As for player interactions, that's up to the players. If one cluster of players gets into a war situation, they run the risk of letting another cluster burst through.

Ed Kolis · #3 January 5th, 2007, 12:55 PM

Reminds me a bit of Cosmic Encounter, how you needed to get 5 colonies in your opponents' home systems to win...
/me wonders if the victory conditions in SE5 can be modded to say you need to control specific planets other than homeworlds... that would be interesting

It would also be fun to make a mod based off of Cosmic Encounter... the problem is, how do you give the feel of Cosmic in SE4/SE5? All I can think of is:
1. Lots of unique, bizarre racial traits, much like Stars!
2. Mod treaties so that they are geared toward short-term temporary alliances with lots of backstabbing, instead of long-term alliances.

bearclaw · #4 January 5th, 2007, 01:44 PM

Cosmic SEV! Now THAT would be cool.
(cosmic encounters ranks as my all-time favorite board game)

Ed Kolis · #5 January 5th, 2007, 01:51 PM

Well, maybe we can pull it off if we work together...

Black_Knyght · #6 January 6th, 2007, 12:24 AM

Quote:

Ed Kolis said:
Reminds me a bit of Cosmic Encounter, how you needed to get 5 colonies in your opponents' home systems to win...
/me wonders if the victory conditions in SE5 can be modded to say you need to control specific planets other than homeworlds... that would be interesting

It would also be fun to make a mod based off of Cosmic Encounter... the problem is, how do you give the feel of Cosmic in SE4/SE5? All I can think of is:
1. Lots of unique, bizarre racial traits, much like Stars!
2. Mod treaties so that they are geared toward short-term temporary alliances with lots of backstabbing, instead of long-term alliances.

THAT sounds like an awesome idea, and I'd love to see that come to be.

Possum · #7 January 14th, 2007, 08:33 PM

I'm always interested in anything to do with Stock SE4; count me in!

AdmiralMartin · #8 January 29th, 2007, 07:26 PM

I would be interested in a game like this as well.