POLL->things we'd really like in Next Patch (Platinum II)

[Fyron]

In one game turn where there was a hugely massive ship battle or 10, the cmb file was 616KB. Not very much, considering it gets overwritten every turn, and is rarely that large.

[ November 02, 2002, 07:22: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[DavidG]

Originally posted by Will:
Some comments....

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Facility that adds facility space to a planet

You DO realize how unbalancing/unrealistic this is, correct? Maybe if there is a one per planet restriction...

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Actaully never thought about it before since this was someone elses idea. However I would think this could work if it was like Atmospheric Converter. After say a year you get 25% more facilities.

[geoschmo]

RE: Adding facility spots. It's not as "sexy" maybe as adding a new hardcode feature toy, but you can mod in combo facilities that have the ablilities of different kinds of facilities, or enhanced facilities that are like two of the same kind of facilitiy. Does the same thing pretty much.

Geoschmo

[Skulky]

*light clicks on in head* What if the views of these systems you "saw" were stored on YOUR harddrive? YOUR hard drive would take a "screenshot" each turn, then check if it needed to update it with a new one from the current .gam file. If it didn't then it would save it for your viewing. I already do this for one of my games with the "print screen" command and then placing it in a .ppt file only it doesn't have as much detail as a game generated one would.

If it was turned on in the normal game then each player (depending on their HD space) coudl decided whether to use it or not. I don't think you'd have a problem with hacking either, despite the generally honest nature of everyone here, because, unless you tricked the game into thinking you had a ship there you wouldnt' get a "newer" update.

Hope that makes sense.

[Will]

That could work... screenshots would be vastly inefficient, but saving system information into a seperate file (e.g. gameName_playerNumber.map, or whichever file extension) could work nicely. Would be more... graphical than keeping a Notepad (either the Windoze or the physical variety)archive of each game.

Thus, it becomes an individual player's option, and doesn't bog down TCP/IP, PBW, PbEM... Why didn't I see that?

Oh well.

[Suicide Junkie]

What about the ability to save simultaneous game turns, and continue later?

[Quikngruvn]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
What about the ability to save simultaneous game turns, and continue later?

I second that! (Heck, it was hard enough picking three out of the ones presented....)

Quikngruvn