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Re: Don't Let the Stars Fade Away Mon, 29 January 2007 15:36 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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m.a@stars wrote on Mon, 29 January 2007 08:52


I'm not entirely happy with the "one program does it all" approach. I.e: there would be greater freedom/evolution if several quite independent "blocks" that make up the game could be tackled on their own, by different (or even competing) people, each working on their platform(s) of choice.


I have to disagree here. If Stars! is truly dying and we want to prevent that, we need to attract new players and old players who have given up on it. We can't expect to do that if you have to download 10 modules and walk through a 5 page readme just to get a game started with your buddies. It needs to be simple to create and host games.

The game itself needs to be appealing to new players if we want to keep it alive. This is purely annecdotal, but the real problem I've had convincing my friends and family to play the original game are all based on its complexity. The game is pretty dang complicated to pick up for a beginner. The micromanagment required per planet is really high, and the tools in the game to help with micromanagment are hard to figure out (repeat orders for remote mining transports, moving pop around planets, auto build orders for new planets, etc.)

To combat these problems we need to create simple micromanagement orders. I'm thinking things like:

'Right Click on Planet -> Mine Remote Planet -> Left click on nearby planet'

This would create all ships for a remote mining fleet (transports, miners, etc) with optimal components. Build them in the production queue, and when built they would automatically start mining the selected planet and set up a freighter route between the remote planet and your homeworld.

We need to allow the users to customize any step of this process, but the base functionality needs to just work out of the box.

It's tempting to make all of this stuff usable by plugin modules, but your average newbie isn't going to be up for downloading the game, the server, the remote mining addon script and a host of other scripts just to make the game enjoyable. There are plenty more games out there that are fun to play and much easier to get started with.

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