| Re: Slow Game Settings |
Tue, 21 January 2003 18:05  |
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If you make all armour and any other item you don't want to require tech 27 then no-one can have it. This makes sure that sheilds are required and RS is essential.
If you're going for a star trek theme then consider a complete conversion of sorts.
If you eliminate all research you can control race specific components. Possible ideas....
Borg - War monger - biggest war ships and bad-ass weapons.
Romulan - SS (duh) - good cloaking.
Ferengi - CA (trade masters)
Federation - IS - this gives you chance to fiddle with croby sharmour to get the federation a better ability to survive with sheilds down.
HE - kilngons maybe? - could fiddle with the metamorph to make a ship with minimal sheilding, loads of weapons and due to much lower weight than other races - greater manouverability - but weak defensively.
SD - species (insert number here) - play about with the 2 hulls and make yourself a couple of unsheilded heavily armoured as hell warships.
Just ideas like. I think a good way to control the way each species would play would be to open up every single race at the beginning of the game and fill all the design slots and only permit each race to use the appropriate ship designs.
By doing the latter you can also adjust how much each ship takes to build - i.e. klingons could pop up maybe 4 ships to every 2 Fed/Rom ships and have an even battle. Fed can build 8 ships to every Borg ship and have an even battle.
You get the general idea.
I figure increasing the costs of ships will slow the game down and get the battles into the perspective you want - but a race with a huge growth rate could compensate with a much larger disposable resource pool.
You'd need to limit growth rate and a few other economic factors to get the right balance.
I think Stalwart is on about the Dark Ages game.
I think that starbase delta has the thread about the game settings and it is slow as hell. Very hard to get off the start block.
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