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Re: Thoughts on a next gen Stars

Wed, 02 February 2011 19:55

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Dogthinkers wrote on Wed, 02 February 2011 21:43

going 3D makes choke points almost vanish from the map, reducing strategic depth. The more '3D' you are, the less interesting the terrain is. If you go 3D, you're almost forced into putting 'space lanes' into your game, routes that ships have to move along (or travel much slower,) just to stamp some terrain onto the map. You don't need this kludge so badly if you stick with 2D.

Bummer. And "lanes" are even worse, IMHO. Confused

Have you tried lots of maps? Would clustering help?

What about desirable "hot spots" instead of "choke points"? Perhaps that would add some "geography" to the bare starmap. Sherlock

At any rate, I'd rather have "nebulas" instead of "lanes". Vast gas/dust/radiation-filled expanses can serve as "barrier" to travel/gating/packeting, natural cloaking, or even "natural lanes" if ramscoops perform too poorly outside them. Twisty, slowly-evolving lanes might be interesting... Going insane

So many Stars, so few Missiles!

In space no one can hear you scheme! Deal

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		Thoughts on a next gen Stars By: Steve on Tue, 01 February 2011 20:14
		Re: Thoughts on a next gen Stars By: Coyote on Tue, 01 February 2011 20:58
		Re: Thoughts on a next gen Stars By: Steve on Wed, 02 February 2011 08:21
		Re: Thoughts on a next gen Stars By: m.a@stars on Wed, 02 February 2011 06:38
		Re: Thoughts on a next gen Stars By: Steve on Wed, 02 February 2011 08:26
		Re: Thoughts on a next gen Stars By: Coyote on Wed, 02 February 2011 14:36
		Re: Thoughts on a next gen Stars By: mlaub on Wed, 02 February 2011 15:23
		Re: Thoughts on a next gen Stars By: Dogthinkers on Wed, 02 February 2011 15:43
		Re: Thoughts on a next gen Stars By: m.a@stars on Wed, 02 February 2011 19:55
		Re: Thoughts on a next gen Stars By: Dogthinkers on Wed, 02 February 2011 20:30
		Re: Thoughts on a next gen Stars By: m.a@stars on Thu, 03 February 2011 06:59
		Re: Thoughts on a next gen Stars By: Chazarus on Thu, 10 February 2011 10:21
		Re: Thoughts on a next gen Stars By: m.a@stars on Sat, 12 February 2011 08:12
		Re: Thoughts on a next gen Stars By: Steve on Sun, 13 February 2011 19:08
		Re: Thoughts on a next gen Stars By: m.a@stars on Mon, 14 February 2011 08:39
		Re: Thoughts on a next gen Stars By: Coyote on Sun, 13 February 2011 21:01
		Re: Thoughts on a next gen Stars By: Chazarus on Mon, 14 February 2011 05:05
		Re: Thoughts on a next gen Stars By: m.a@stars on Mon, 14 February 2011 08:47
		Re: Thoughts on a next gen Stars By: m.a@stars on Mon, 14 February 2011 08:43
		Re: Thoughts on a next gen Stars By: Chazarus on Mon, 14 February 2011 10:14
		Re: Thoughts on a next gen Stars By: m.a@stars on Tue, 15 February 2011 07:38
		Re: Thoughts on a next gen Stars By: Chazarus on Tue, 15 February 2011 11:50
		Re: Thoughts on a next gen Stars By: m.a@stars on Tue, 15 February 2011 18:18

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