One empire, multiplayer?

[CW]

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Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
If you are 'defense' minister and you order an old ship un-mothballed for use but the 'maintenance minister' orders it scrapped on the same turn, what happens? This will be a serious design challenge.

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That's not too hard to do, just give every person in the team a rank so a higher ranking person will override a lower rank's orders. Still you will need a lot of coordination though, and who wants to be ranked lower than his team mates?

And yes, "multiplayer empires" is surely a nice feature to have in the SEV!

[ 25 January 2002: Message edited by: CW ]

[dogscoff]

I love the "War and Peace" idea. It would make a great PBW game, with a bunch of 2-player teams playing against one another.

You could even have War and Peace controlled by the same player, it would mak for a very diffrnt game. In fact I might try that in a vsAI game - when I'm next about to conquer an AI race, I could just change it to human control instead and turn it into my "War" empire.

[ 26 January 2002: Message edited by: dogscoff ]

[Suicide Junkie]

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That's not too hard to do, just give every person in the team a rank so a higher ranking person will override a lower rank's orders. Still you will need a lot of coordination though, and who wants to be ranked lower than his team mates?

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Better, yet, set the priority (rank) of each players orders with regard to the object type.

Ships
"Attack ships" -> Attack minister, Defense minister, retrofit/repair minister, etc...
"Defense Ships" -> defense, attack, retro, ...
"SY ships" -> retro, defense, attack.

Beyond that, you should try not to override someone elses orders unless it is nessesary.
(If attack orders a repair ship to join his fleet, don't recall the thing unless you have a good reason)

[CW]

Emm... we are sounding more and more like we are talking about the admin rights and that active directory thingy in M$ Windows 2000!