Play By Web : Starfury!

[Fyron]

That depends on how much he intends to do to set up the Imperium... and how many AI empires will there be?

[Slynky]

Imperator Fyron said:
That depends on how much he intends to do to set up the Imperium... and how many AI empires will there be?

Maybe we'll get starmaps of known Imperium locations. And compute necessary supply needs (read: retrofit, perhaps) to do missions.

It's all new to me, so I'm just guessing.

[geoschmo]

I am leaning towards no AI empires at this point. I am just thinking there will be too much that would go wrong with the AI to try and trust them. It would require me to break one of my own rules about playing multiple empires in a game, but well...

I'm thinking the Imperium race, a pirate race, and a civilian race. The civilian race will just be unarmed transport ships flying around. Basically targets for the pirates and players that wish to go bad. I am doing that so the players can prey on the civilians if they choose without nessecarily breaking their treaty with the Imperium. I intend to role play things so as long as an Imperium ship doesn't actually see you attacking a civilian you won't definetly be tagged as a pirate. You'll have to attack an Imperium vessel (suicide) or be really blantant about attacking civilians. Just remember pigs get fat but hogs get slaughtered.

Of course attacking pirates will be encouraged, and attacking other players will be tolerated, unless they happen to be carrying cargo/passengers that are important to the Imperium.

Refueling will be done at the Imperium planets. You will have a military alliance with them at first. As long as you keep that you will be able to refuel. You could also buy solar cells or quontum generators.

[Slynky]

Any particular goal/winning conditions involved in the game? Or is it much like D&D (where character growth and development is the satisfaction)?

[Ryan]

When do you plan to start this, and will we need to upload any special empire files and whatnot?

[Baron Munchausen]

Are you talking about setting up an SE IV game as a Starfury scenario? I don't see how you could make Starfury a multiplayer game...

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Narf is in.

[geoschmo]

Baron Munchausen said:
Are you talking about setting up an SE IV game as a Starfury scenario? I don't see how you could make Starfury a multiplayer game...

Yes, exactly. A Space Empires IV PBW game setup as a scenario modeled after Starfury. With differences of course, but as close as we can make it.

[bearclaw]

Just as a thought...
I imagine that you could have a Temp or Guest GM come in for special missions as an AI race. Then there would be an actual human that we would have to 'compete' against to complete a mission. That would involve some planning, obviously, and willing Guest GM's. But it would be a cool feature.

Are you protecting the caravan from a stupid AI, or a cunning human player...?

[geoschmo]

Ok, to do this right is going to require a lot of out of game communication. I'm thinking either a whole lot of emails (yeech) or some kind of forum. Since neither the Shrapnel forum or the PBW game forum is very condusive to organization, I'm setting up a metagame site with a forum. Fyron has graciously offered me the use of a subdomain for this purpose.

Check out The SE4 Play By Web Starfury Game site at http://starfury.spaceempires.net

There's not much there now, just a shell. I think it will let you go ahead and sign up for the forum if you want. Or I may have to do some more configuring on that first. Not sure yet. Please use the same login that you use on PBW. This site and forum will be open to interested non-players as well. Using this forum we should be able to keep all our communication organized so nothing gets lost. At least that's the plan.

Geoschmo