Re: Galaxy: trading ?

From: phy3dxl3@sun1.bham.ac.uk (Mr D Lovett)

Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:00:00 +0000

Two related things i'd been thinking about:
[1] When trying to take control of planets, rather than knocking out all of
the enemy ships and then bombing the planet, i was thinking of having
troops as a cargo type.
You would have a number of options then.  You could nuke a planet, wiping
out all of the pop, but then the biosphere of the planet would be wrecked
and take years before you could produce anything from the planet, or
you could drop troops down, to fight against the planet's own troops.
This would actually allow you to capture population, rather than just
empty planets.

I've also been considering having planets inhabited by multiple players at
once, sharing resources....

[2] There was a mention of cloaking.  What i was thinking was having
RADAR tech.  Each ship and planet would have a certain scanner range
based on this, but when trying to detect another planet/ship, if their
radar tech was high, it would reduce the range at which you could
detect them.
Thus you could build huge radars into your fleet and have them stationed
just off an enemy planet without them being able to see it.

[3] (i know i said two things) Regarding ships taking damage but not being
destroyed in one hit, i want this.  I was also planning some kind of
piracy possible, if you can disable an enemy cargo ship (ie knock out its
drive and guns) then you'd be able to take whatever cargo had not been
destroyed already.

Dan Lovett.

References

Galaxy: trading ?
phy3dxl3@sun1.bham.ac.uk (Mr D Lovett)
Thu, 02 Oct 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Galaxy: trading ?
poing@luna.nl (Paul van der Valk)
Sun, 12 Oct 1997 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Galaxy: trading ?
phy3dxl3@sun1.bham.ac.uk (Mr D Lovett)
Thu, 02 Oct 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Galaxy: trading ?
poing@luna.nl (Paul van der Valk)
Sun, 12 Oct 1997 00:00:00 +0000