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Re: Don't Let the Stars Fade Away Wed, 31 January 2007 04:38 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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...and another voice joins the choir!

Guys, I wanna say something now before it becomes too late down the road:

We need to keep a focus on the project and what we want it to be. We've basically got three different paths available and we need to all be pulling in the same direction.


1. Stars! 3, with improvements and significant new material but still undeniably Stars!

2. Clone of 2.6jrc3, with non-gameplay improvements (UI, graphics)

3. A brand new game that borrows from Stars! but is fundamentally different.


I don't know about you, but while option 2 provides a good place to start it's option 1 that I think most of us really want. I don't mean to sound rude here but if you want option 3 instead you should probably GTFO and work on a different project, because clamoring that we should make the game into something that it isn't meant to be, such as Homeworld, MOO, World of Warcraft, whatever, is just going to get in the way and cause too much disturbance and infighting and it would be much better if that didn't become an issue. We have to keep the fundamental essence of Stars! - c'est le raison d'etre entire. Changing the race wizard options is one thing, getting rid of race design in favor of something else is completely different. Making the battleboard bigger or adding new weapon types is one thing, replacing it with player-controlled realtime combat is a very different thing.

Do you understand what I mean?



Okay, then. Very Happy I just wanted to throw this down right now to prevent the project falling apart down the road due to disagreements on fundamental design.




Now then... what if any game engine hooks for tech item behavior have been defined? I'm eager to build that tech item list and open it up to balance testing.


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