Re: GALAXY : How to handle dropped players ?

From: $980329$@dtseven.demon.co.uk (Brian Greenfield)

Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 00:00:00 +0000

On Thu, 25 Jun 1998 17:09:02 GMT, gdeyoun@my-dejanews.com wrote:

>6.  It would be nice to build a scripting module into NG that allows the
>creation of BOT's for mundane tasks, like cargo transport, and such.  This is
>a feature in alot of the commercial(WIN95)strategy/sim space games have
>today. The idea of AI governors or admirals and such.  It would be a nice
>touch if I could build a script of orders and/or actions I want a admiral to
>take and give him a small fleet and go tell him to raid.  Or, to build a
>planetary gov. script to tell it to build industry, or CAP and to ship it to
>the nearest planet in 5 parsecs, I understand ROUTES does this function, but
>it is limited.	To make things fair for all players basic scripts can be
>built and posted for general use.

Now that *is* something I like the sound of. I do a lot of this in all
the games I play -- it would certainly be nice to have a tailored
language to implement the scripts in.

As for my suggestions for dead players planets...

I'd like to see each planet produce ships in rotation: guns, flak &
shotguns. Each ship built with components a fixed percentage of max
ship size.

For example, a fully populated/industrialised size 900, resource 1
world has a max ship size of about 82. So, in successive turns, it
would build:

1*GUN (0 1 54 28 0)
  82*FLAK (0 0 0 1 0)
   1*SHOTGUN (0 53 2 28 0)

These are based on armed ships being 1/3 shields and 2/3 guns.

If you hide the fact that a player has quit, remaining players could
still be sending them email months after they'd quit. Let the players
know that someone has quit, but only after 3 turns have passed. That
way, they've gone through the above ship cycle once. You could even
have all the races start with those three standard designs and names
built in.

I'm against any reduction in planet stats. Imagine the following
scenario. Player A is preparing an attack against B and has a fleet
within jump distance of B's homeworld. B sends scouts and sees this
unbeatable fleet. B quits to prevent A getting another homeworld.

My 2p's worth, too.
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References

GALAXY : How to handle dropped players ?
graeme@postimpressions.co.uk (Graeme Griffiths)
Thu, 25 Jun 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: GALAXY : How to handle dropped players ?
gdeyoun@my-dejanews.com
Thu, 25 Jun 1998 00:00:00 +0000

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GALAXY : How to handle dropped players ?
graeme@postimpressions.co.uk (Graeme Griffiths)
Thu, 25 Jun 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: GALAXY : How to handle dropped players ?
gdeyoun@my-dejanews.com
Thu, 25 Jun 1998 00:00:00 +0000