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Re: Unusual Game Concept

Tue, 05 August 2003 12:18

Micha

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Captain Maim wrote on Fri, 25 July 2003 10:20

Would anyone be interested in playing a game with all new and possibly useful starting ships/starbases??

For instance starting every one with a stargate on their starbase (or more) and a tiny complement of ships that can never be replicated? (like hero ships almost.. Jump Gate freighters, or PRT mixed ships that can't be duplicated by anyone ever..)

Would this be of any interest to anyone to play a game with?

I find this an interesting concept, but next to all the technical stuff I have doubts about if this is really word to dedicate a whole game to ...
Imagine the WM happily starting with his Armed Probe as a Super Mine layer, or the SS player eagerly starting with instead of his Shadow Transport a minimorph full of tachyons (just making up some stuff). Then in year 2410 both designs get destroyed ... what is there left that makes the game different from others?

I really like the idea of having some "hero ships" but they will get destroyed and that might well be very much sooner than later ...

Also the designs would be a bit more interesting if they had some long lasting use. True almost any mine laying design would be of very high value to a WM, but designs like a with IS weap/shield equipped Stalwart Defender lose their usefulness very fast, it is a much better design than the normal Stalwart of which probably nobody EVER has build a second one, while now you have a useful design but you CAN'T build a second one. Sad

And if I understand correctly weapons are always limited to the starting techlevels (except the MT weapons?) so in firepower the designs will be outdated in year 2405 ... (except for the WM of course).
So best guess would be to provide good utility ships to the races, with items they otherwise wouldn't get ( = not limited in tech), and so useful that it is worth losing a design slot for at least half of the game.

Right now the only things I can think of that I would really want and have longer use are OA, robber barrons or tachyon ships ... (maybe a speedbump mine layer but I think I would soon enough be wanting to free that slot except when being WM.)

mch

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		Unusual Game Concept By: Captain Maim on Fri, 25 July 2003 04:20
		Re: Unusual Game Concept By: Captain Maim on Tue, 29 July 2003 06:34
		Re: Unusual Game Concept By: Coyote on Tue, 29 July 2003 13:44
		Re: Unusual Game Concept By: Captain Maim on Tue, 29 July 2003 22:14
		Re: Unusual Game Concept By: Captain Maim on Thu, 31 July 2003 01:42
		Re: Unusual Game Concept By: Coyote on Thu, 31 July 2003 03:31
		Re: Unusual Game Concept By: Captain Maim on Thu, 31 July 2003 07:58
		Re: Unusual Game Concept By: Coyote on Thu, 31 July 2003 16:51
		Re: Unusual Game Concept By: OOMatter on Thu, 31 July 2003 19:47
		Re: Unusual Game Concept By: Coyote on Fri, 01 August 2003 02:20
		Re: Unusual Game Concept By: iztok on Fri, 01 August 2003 03:19
		Re: Unusual Game Concept By: Coyote on Fri, 01 August 2003 03:31
		Re: Unusual Game Concept By: Captain Maim on Thu, 31 July 2003 08:11
		Re: Unusual Game Concept By: Captain Maim on Thu, 31 July 2003 08:37
		Re: Unusual Game Concept By: vonKreedon on Thu, 31 July 2003 12:14
		Re: Unusual Game Concept By: LEit on Thu, 31 July 2003 12:44
		Re: Unusual Game Concept By: Micha on Thu, 31 July 2003 12:55
		Re: Unusual Game Concept By: LEit on Thu, 31 July 2003 13:59
		Re: Unusual Game Concept By: Captain Maim on Fri, 01 August 2003 06:10
		Re: Unusual Game Concept By: Micha on Tue, 05 August 2003 11:50
		Re: Unusual Game Concept By: Captain Maim on Fri, 01 August 2003 07:55
		Re: Unusual Game Concept By: Micha on Tue, 05 August 2003 12:18
		Re: Unusual Game Concept By: vonKreedon on Tue, 05 August 2003 21:37
		Re: Unusual Game Concept By: Captain Maim on Tue, 05 August 2003 23:50
		Re: Unusual Game Concept By: Captain Maim on Wed, 06 August 2003 00:00
		Re: Unusual Game Concept By: Coyote on Wed, 06 August 2003 00:37
		Re: Unusual Game Concept By: Micha on Wed, 06 August 2003 03:38
		Re: Unusual Game Concept By: Micha on Wed, 06 August 2003 03:42
		Re: Unusual Game Concept By: Captain Maim on Wed, 06 August 2003 09:11
		Re: Unusual Game Concept By: Micha on Wed, 06 August 2003 17:39
		Re: Unusual Game Concept By: Captain Maim on Thu, 07 August 2003 01:27
		Re: Unusual Game Concept By: Micha on Thu, 07 August 2003 03:04
		Re: Unusual Game Concept By: Captain Maim on Fri, 08 August 2003 02:41
		Re: Unusual Game Concept By: Micha on Fri, 08 August 2003 04:36
		Re: Unusual Game Concept By: Captain Maim on Sun, 10 August 2003 04:12
		Re: Unusual Game Concept By: Captain Maim on Fri, 15 August 2003 09:18
		Re: Unusual Game Concept By: Captain Maim on Sat, 23 August 2003 06:57

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