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Thoughts on a next gen Stars

Tue, 01 February 2011 20:14

Steve

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I've been think for a while of a strategic space game.

My first thought is that the universe is a 3 (at least) dimension entity. The 2 dimensions in the Stars game does not quite cut it IMHO. Of course the UI for a 3D universe is a challenge.

Doing some in depth research (OK, I looked at Wikipedia) there are 69 stars within 1 parsec (16.3 LY) OF Sol. Seems like the perfect environment of your tri-immune HE!

I expect the number of stars with habitable planets are probably well under a Stars OWW race!

In a Stars game, the human race will have a growth rate under the 19% rate typical in the game. In fact, a growth rate of 5%-6% is probably more realistic.

Earth population is shy of 7 billion right now. The idea of sending more at a couple million people per year to colonize other worlds seems like a stretch. Even on a 100% workd, the time to get from a couple million to a couple billion in population takes a LONG time!

So starting from a single home world and colonizing enough of the universe to run into a hostile race and fight is beyond the patience of most players IMHO.

So perhaps having starting empires makes some sense, or perhaps having a multi-year generation plan.

I have some questions about being able to detect and intercept a hostile force some light years away. Perhaps the process of FTL travel will be detectable.

I am thinking of Python for development. Probably keep the universe in an SQL database on the host system.

Thoughts or ideas?

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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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