Need scenario ideas

[capnq]

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Blimey, how did I get to a first class private?

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[geoschmo]

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Originally posted by Growltigga:
The other idea I have tried successfully on board games is what we called the 'Kentish standoff'

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Again, no idea how you could set this out but could be worth a go

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We did something like this as a multiplayer setup on PBW. Just modified a map and starting positions so each player only have one front door to their cluster. Didn't really set a rule about 100 turns, but with only one way in it wasn't hard to defend you space until people developed wapr point manipulation.

That was quite the game I tell you. One of the most fun SEIV games I've been in.

What I am trying to do though is create some single player scenarios. This idea would be kind of tough to implement with a single player against AI. Can't really control the ai, and they can tend to be daft at times when you start putting them into unusual situations like this. In our PBW game a couple guys dropped out and the AI's that took over didn't have a good time of it.

Geoschmo

[Growltigga]

Noted. It is 23.10 here in England and I am two bottles of Chateauneuf du pape southward of being sober.

Will put my thinking cap on for some suitable scenarios

Regards

(PS If you get any more Posts from me tonight, especially if they involve cunning plans to make an SEIV gamebased on Kylie Minougue's cleavage - ignore me as you will know I got to bottle number 3 on my own)

[Puke]

to add fuel to the empire raid idea (a great idea there) you might want to throw in some fleets of mothballed ships. in order to acquire them, you would have to either capture them with bording parties (never actually tried fighting against a mothball fleet, so i dont know how it works.. have to try it.. do they get shields?) or force the owner to surrender (neutral empire starting on one world somewhere).

you could make it trickier by putting the neutral empire off in one corner of the map, and stashing their mothball fleets in a nebula somewhere else. you would have to race around with a construction ship to unmothball them inorder to build up your numbers, and you would have to do it before your competition found them.

this could even be done in the same vein as the old Andromeda or Voyager scenarios that were written earlier. you start with one ship, and you start acquiring more as you progress. let conquest be the goal, but let the starting ship be sucky instead of mighty. sneak around capturing and refitting mothball ships untill you have enough remote miners to sustain an income, and enough warships to form a fleet.

[geoschmo]

Puke, Are you reading my mind? I was thinking exactly along those lines when the dead empire was suggested. I was thinking about leaving damaged ships laying around. But mothballed ones might be better because they wouldn't be a maintenance drain.

I'll have to work on that a little.

Geoschmo

[DirectorTsaarx]

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Originally posted by geoschmo:
Puke, Are you reading my mind? I was thinking exactly along those lines when the dead empire was suggested. I was thinking about leaving damaged ships laying around. But mothballed ones might be better because they wouldn't be a maintenance drain.

I'll have to work on that a little.

Geoschmo

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Better yet - do both! Mothball some heavily damaged ships, so they have to be unmothballed and then repaired.

[Puke]

for that to work, you would have to have the technology to build them in the first place. you can only repair components that you have researched. if you just mothball them, they can be ships of any technology level.