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Re: Nova - How should it be different to Stars!

Sat, 27 January 2007 16:41

sirgwain

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Registered: March 2004
Location: Tucson

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So, the subject line says it all. Bearing in mind that it is "cast in the mold" of Stars! how should it diverge?

With my version of Stars! I had a couple of goals that I wanted to implement from the beginning:

Make it easier to host games over an internet connection. No more emailing files back and forth.
Improve the UI to be more up to date with cool new windows technology.
Make the code easily readable and easily modifiable so that other devs could pick up the finished product and MOD it.
Create an API for the game so that other C#/VB/.Net developers could write AI's or turn processors that could 'plug in' to the game and aid with micromanagement.

As for cool new features, I thought it would be cool to build ships in a queue to the same fleet over the course of many years. That way you could construct a bombing fleet with multiple ship types, and when every ship in the fleet was done you would be alerted and could give them orders.

Allowing players to view friendly map information would be sweet too. The whole diplomacy engine would be nice to redo and expand upon.

I like the original Stars! quite a bit the way it is. I wouldn't really change it so much as make it easier to use and take less micromanagement. But then again, as I've said before, I'm not very creative. Smile

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		Nova - How should it be different to Stars! By: ken-reed on Wed, 24 January 2007 17:48
		Re: Nova - How should it be different to Stars! By: Iconian on Thu, 25 January 2007 00:01
		Re: Nova - How should it be different to Stars! By: ken-reed on Fri, 26 January 2007 16:16
		Re: Nova - How should it be different to Stars! By: m.a@stars on Thu, 25 January 2007 11:06
		Re: Nova - How should it be different to Stars! By: ken-reed on Fri, 26 January 2007 16:25
		Re: Nova - How should it be different to Stars! By: Iconian on Fri, 26 January 2007 23:41
		Re: Nova - How should it be different to Stars! By: Coyote on Sat, 27 January 2007 01:05
		Re: Nova - How should it be different to Stars! By: ken-reed on Sat, 27 January 2007 06:19
		Re: Nova - How should it be different to Stars! By: ken-reed on Sat, 27 January 2007 06:07
		Re: Nova - How should it be different to Stars! By: Iconian on Sat, 27 January 2007 10:51
		Re: Nova - How should it be different to Stars! By: ken-reed on Sat, 27 January 2007 12:15
		Re: Nova - How should it be different to Stars! By: sirgwain on Sat, 27 January 2007 16:25
		Re: Nova - How should it be different to Stars! By: Neo the White on Sat, 27 January 2007 12:17
		Re: Nova - How should it be different to Stars! By: sirgwain on Sat, 27 January 2007 16:41
		Re: Nova - How should it be different to Stars! By: Iconian on Sat, 27 January 2007 22:01
		Re: Nova - How should it be different to Stars! By: ken-reed on Sun, 28 January 2007 04:44
		Re: Nova - How should it be different to Stars! By: Iconian on Sun, 28 January 2007 16:12
		Re: Nova - How should it be different to Stars! By: ken-reed on Sun, 28 January 2007 17:24
		Re: Nova - How should it be different to Stars! By: Iconian on Sun, 28 January 2007 17:50
		Re: Nova - How should it be different to Stars! By: ken-reed on Mon, 29 January 2007 06:04
		Re: Nova - How should it be different to Stars! By: Coyote on Mon, 29 January 2007 05:40
		Re: Nova - How should it be different to Stars! By: m.a@stars on Mon, 29 January 2007 08:04
		Re: Nova - How should it be different to Stars! By: sirgwain on Mon, 29 January 2007 14:46
		Re: Nova - How should it be different to Stars! By: Iconian on Mon, 29 January 2007 16:11
		Re: Nova - How should it be different to Stars! By: m.a@stars on Tue, 30 January 2007 04:30
		Re: Nova - How should it be different to Stars! By: Coyote on Tue, 30 January 2007 05:18
		Re: Nova - How should it be different to Stars! By: m.a@stars on Tue, 30 January 2007 04:25
		Re: Nova - How should it be different to Stars! By: Iconian on Mon, 29 January 2007 13:55
		Re: Nova - How should it be different to Stars! By: Iconian on Tue, 30 January 2007 11:54
		Re: Nova - How should it be different to Stars! By: Coyote on Wed, 31 January 2007 02:29
		Re: Nova - How should it be different to Stars! By: gible on Wed, 31 January 2007 04:07
		Re: Nova - How should it be different to Stars! By: m.a@stars on Thu, 01 February 2007 03:39
		Re: Nova - How should it be different to Stars! By: Coyote on Thu, 01 February 2007 07:03
		Re: Nova - How should it be different to Stars! By: ken-reed on Thu, 01 February 2007 16:19

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