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Re: Late game minesweeper

Wed, 06 May 2009 22:30

Bystander

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Location: Tampa, Florida, USA

Some of my pointless "spirit of the game" musings:

I think of Stars! as a universe siimilar to Star Trek. Travel is at warp speed, some of the random AI race names are generated from Star Trek characters, etc. Captains in the Star Trek world are bold, elite, daring tactitians - willing to take risks if dire situations require, but value their crews and their ships like their own kin.

When we talk about chaff sweeping, it like saying: "O.K. Kirk, Picardi, Janeway, Archer and 98% of you other captains, climb into these kamikaze rust buckets and race full speed into the nearest mine! We've crunched the numbers with our utilities and micro-managed all the fleet numbers so the big ships can go in unscathed!" Laughing

Maybe I should just consider the chaff as automated drones.

And some other people have complained that minefields in general make the game too slow and defensive. So maybe chaff sweeping is equivalent to the "en passant" rule added to chess after hundreds of years to loosen up the game.

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		Mine Damage Dodge - bug or feature? (split from: Late game minesweeper) By: iztok on Sun, 03 May 2009 04:51
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: AlexTheGreat on Mon, 04 May 2009 21:32
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: gible on Mon, 04 May 2009 22:48
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: iztok on Tue, 05 May 2009 02:44
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: Micha on Tue, 05 May 2009 03:00
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: m.a@stars on Tue, 05 May 2009 04:56
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: Micha on Tue, 05 May 2009 07:03
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: AlexTheGreat on Tue, 05 May 2009 08:24
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: neilhoward on Tue, 05 May 2009 14:36
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: vonKreedon on Tue, 05 May 2009 14:51
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: mlaub on Tue, 05 May 2009 18:14
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: Altruist on Tue, 05 May 2009 18:00
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: gible on Tue, 05 May 2009 20:51
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: AlexTheGreat on Tue, 05 May 2009 20:52
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: iztok on Wed, 06 May 2009 02:01
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: AlexTheGreat on Wed, 06 May 2009 07:07
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: vonKreedon on Wed, 06 May 2009 10:24
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: mlaub on Wed, 06 May 2009 22:40
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: Bystander on Wed, 06 May 2009 13:25
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: GJScarritt on Wed, 06 May 2009 16:07
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: Bystander on Wed, 06 May 2009 18:25
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: iztok on Thu, 07 May 2009 02:29
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: AlexTheGreat on Wed, 06 May 2009 16:59
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: slimdrag00n on Tue, 05 May 2009 04:17
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: Eagle of Fire on Tue, 05 May 2009 20:23
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: Eagle of Fire on Wed, 06 May 2009 20:30
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: Bystander on Wed, 06 May 2009 22:30
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: mlaub on Wed, 06 May 2009 23:09
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: scottrick49 on Thu, 07 May 2009 09:14
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: vonKreedon on Thu, 07 May 2009 10:09
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: Micha on Thu, 07 May 2009 11:01
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: Alter Ego on Thu, 07 May 2009 11:30
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: Micha on Thu, 07 May 2009 17:00
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: vonKreedon on Thu, 07 May 2009 17:07
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: Micha on Fri, 08 May 2009 05:43
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: neilhoward on Thu, 07 May 2009 19:19
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: Ashlyn on Thu, 07 May 2009 20:47
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: iztok on Fri, 08 May 2009 03:16
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: livingdeadgirl on Fri, 12 February 2010 08:05
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: Eagle of Fire on Thu, 07 May 2009 12:51
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: Alter Ego on Thu, 07 May 2009 12:53
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: Alter Ego on Thu, 07 May 2009 12:56
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: Eagle of Fire on Thu, 07 May 2009 12:54
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: Eagle of Fire on Thu, 07 May 2009 14:38
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: Alter Ego on Thu, 07 May 2009 14:44
		Re: Late game minesweeper By: Eagle of Fire on Thu, 07 May 2009 16:18
		Topic split (Re: Mine Damage Dodge - bug or feature?) By: Micha on Fri, 08 May 2009 11:18
		Re: Topic split (Re: Mine Damage Dodge - bug or feature?) By: bigcanuknaz on Fri, 08 May 2009 22:45
		Re: Mine Damage Dodge - bug or feature? (split from: Late game minesweeper) By: Micha on Mon, 25 May 2009 09:51
		Re: Mine Damage Dodge - bug or feature? (split from: Late game minesweeper) By: m.a@stars on Mon, 01 June 2009 19:10
		Re: Mine Damage Dodge - bug or feature? (split from: Late game minesweeper) By: bigcanuknaz on Sun, 06 December 2009 15:40
		Re: Mine Damage Dodge - bug or feature? (split from: Late game minesweeper) By: vonKreedon on Mon, 07 December 2009 11:00
		Re: Mine Damage Dodge - bug or feature? (split from: Late game minesweeper) By: Dogthinkers on Thu, 14 January 2010 06:57
		Re: Mine Damage Dodge - bug or feature? (split from: Late game minesweeper) By: iztok on Fri, 15 January 2010 02:53
		Re: Mine Damage Dodge - bug or feature? (split from: Late game minesweeper) By: bigcanuknaz on Tue, 30 March 2010 18:06
		Re: Mine Damage Dodge - bug or feature? (split from: Late game minesweeper) By: iztok on Wed, 31 March 2010 02:25
		Re: Mine Damage Dodge - bug or feature? (split from: Late game minesweeper) By: slimdrag00n on Wed, 17 March 2010 20:32
		Re: Mine Damage Dodge - bug or feature? (split from: Late game minesweeper) By: gible on Thu, 18 March 2010 05:59
		Re: Mine Damage Dodge - bug or feature? (split from: Late game minesweeper) By: paul_ik on Thu, 18 March 2010 06:31
		Re: Mine Damage Dodge - bug or feature? (split from: Late game minesweeper) By: Micha on Thu, 18 March 2010 08:48
		Re: Mine Damage Dodge - bug or feature? (split from: Late game minesweeper) By: slimdrag00n on Thu, 18 March 2010 14:50
		Re: Mine Damage Dodge - bug or feature? (split from: Late game minesweeper) By: Micha on Thu, 18 March 2010 16:48
		Re: Mine Damage Dodge - bug or feature? (split from: Late game minesweeper) By: slimdrag00n on Thu, 18 March 2010 17:34
		Re: Mine Damage Dodge - bug or feature? (split from: Late game minesweeper) By: mlaub on Thu, 18 March 2010 21:16
		Re: Mine Damage Dodge - bug or feature? (split from: Late game minesweeper) By: Micha on Fri, 19 March 2010 03:03
		Re: Mine Damage Dodge - bug or feature? (split from: Late game minesweeper) By: iojho on Fri, 19 March 2010 03:41
		Re: Mine Damage Dodge - bug or feature? (split from: Late game minesweeper) By: Micha on Fri, 19 March 2010 05:04
		Re: Mine Damage Dodge - bug or feature? (split from: Late game minesweeper) By: paul_ik on Fri, 19 March 2010 05:43
		Re: Mine Damage Dodge - bug or feature? (split from: Late game minesweeper) By: Micha on Fri, 19 March 2010 09:02
		Re: Mine Damage Dodge - bug or feature? (split from: Late game minesweeper) By: XAPBob on Tue, 08 April 2014 10:13
		detection of mine dodge By: Altruist on Sat, 12 April 2014 06:23
		Re: Mine Damage Dodge - bug or feature? (split from: Late game minesweeper) By: XAPBob on Sat, 12 April 2014 07:38

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