Long Range Wepons

[Ed Kolis]

Good ideas, but those would have to be hardcoded in. As it stands, the only way to destroy a star is to move a star destroyer into the sector containing the star, and you can only open a warp point to a square that actually contains a system.

If you want to prevent the turtling strategy, however, simply remove the block warp points abilities from the system shield.

[PvK]

Hmm. How about random and intelligence events? Can they be used to destroy planets, stars, and/or open warp points even when a system grav shield is in place?

PvK

[evader]

Yes I relize that they would have to be hard coded in but I just wanted to open up a dialog on the subject to see if anyone liked it.

If enough people like then maybe in to be put in to SEV

[Undertakr]

I think intelligence (and it may work this way, I don't know) should allow for a percentage chance to capture any ship within the sector you can't see in when you choose to take any ship. This gives you a chance to get inside the system. I don't think there should be a way to directly go into a turtled sector. I think closing off warps is a fair strategy right now because once they make it so you can't get in, they can't get out. That's severly limiting, especially since they can't get out to defend their unprotected sectors and you start them all rioting. They will eventually have to come out of their shell.

- takr

[Suicide Junkie]

I think closing off warps is a fair strategy right now because once they make it so you can't get in, they can't get out. That's severly limiting, especially since they can't get out to defend their unprotected sectors and you start them all rioting. They will eventually have to come out of their shell.

If they lock themselves into a small number of systems, they can stay there indefinitely.

The only thing that could possibly break the turtling is random events.
Even supernovae can be prevented by a Ring or Sphereworld, and if there are grav shield facilities on multiple planets in each system, earthquakes and planet core instabilities won't crack the shell either.
After thousands of turns, you might find that the turtled player's planets are all randomly destroyed (he can't rebuild since the ringworld uses up the star). I don't think ringworlds can be broken up by random events, though, so he could still sit there with ten grav shields and say he hasn't lost yet.

[dogscoff]

Yes I relize that they would have to be hard coded in but I just wanted to open up a dialog on the subject to see if anyone liked it.

If enough people like then maybe in to be put in to SEV

What I'd really really like to see for SEV would be the possibility for normal space FTL travel from system to system as well as warp-point travel. This would open up whole new tech trees and strategies. For example, travelling directly from system to system without warp points would have the advantage of being able to approach from any direction but the obvious disadvantage that it would take a lot longer to get from A to B. Cost and supplies might also be issues.

Maybe also make it so that once a fleet has been despatched via FTL into the inter-stellar void, it can't change course. Chuck in some sensors so that the defender could see a few dozen light years beyond the system's boundaries (and all the cloaking devices & stuff that come with sensors) and it could be a well- balanced feature for the sequel.

[LGM]

Interstellar travel without warp-points would allow entry into segment of the solar system that are not connected by warp-points. This would effectively counter System Shields denying access to a system after the warp-points have beenr emoved.