Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Shark7

This idea came to me while posting in the 'Policy' thread below.

We need the ability to define to the AI an auto-build policy based on certain conditions being met.

1. Starports could be build or retrofitted based on population criteria. These could be set by the player in the options with simple check boxes and being able to type a number in.

Examples:

- (check box) Build a small starport when if colony population is >= (box for a 4 digit number) million population.
- (check box) Build/retrofit to a medium starport when if colony population is >= (box for a 4 digit number) million population.
- (check box) Build/retrofit to a large starport when if colony population is >= (box for a 5 digit number) million population.

So I could set up mine to read that I build a small starport at 10 million population, retrofit to a medium at 1 billion population (1000 million) and finally a large starport at 10 billion population (10000 million). Or if I like I can set it for small at 10 million, medium at 500 million, and large at 2 billion. In other words, I can control when it auto builds.

Defense bases could fall under a similar system. Though there are two ways to go about it. One where you define specifically at each point a base will be built, or define a milestone where the AI will build a new base. Specifically you could define up to (arbitrarily lets say 4) build points at 1 billion, 2 billion, 3 billion, 4 billion just like the starport example above or secondly build 1 every 2 billion population gain which would look something like this:

- (Check Box) Build a new defense base at a colony each time the population of the colony increases by a number >= (5 digit box) million population.

This would give a player a lot of macro control without having to micro-manage it himself or depend completely on the AI to make the decisions. You could even have a definition of when to delay building a check-box that says:

- (check box) do not auto-build military ships or bases if treasury is <= (3 digit box) ,000.

So you could set it as low as 1000 or as high as 999,000. This could be a global setting to help keep the AI from building military products when you are low on cash.

Just a few ideas.

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ORIGINAL: lancer

G'day,

One of the things that gets me frustrated with an otherwise excellent game is the amount of clicking I need to do in order to find out what is happening with resources in my empire.

To get the information I need I have to open up a large number of GUI elements. It's all there but it's spread far and wide. Given that the game revolves around resources I've been putting some thought into a more efficient method of displaying the information.

So I've come up with a revamp of the Expansion planner. Not as the end all and be all but as a starting point for a discussion.

Personally I think there is a need for a better information flow but others may not.

I'd also put a vote in for a slider that determines the amount of resources found in the galaxy. I rarely find myself with a shortage of strategic elements, such is their prevelance.

I've copied this to the wishlist.





Cheers,
Lancer

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overall i agree with the suggestions... the "no need for a filter" one though I am a bit confused by... you say "click on a resource name and list auto filters". Well, how will you be able to click on its name without a filter?
I found the filter quite useful on occasion, I used it to look up korbebian spice, loros fruit, zentebia fluid, and hydrogen.

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ORIGINAL: vonboy

i'd like to have the option of building my own freighters, mining stations/ships, and passenger ships. of course have the private sector keep building these ships like they've been doing, but give me the ability to build my own if for example i really want some strategic resources sent to a deepspace starbase in the middle of an enemy empire.

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Quote: Shark 7
1. Empire Alien Relations: What you do with the aliens that you conquer/colonize. I currently suggest the following categories:

a. Assimilation: Basically the DW default as it is now. The Alien race is accepted into your empire and you gain their bonuses. Aliens are free to leave their 'home' planets and intermingle with your people on all colonies. Can colonize new planets.
b. Quarantine: The Aliens are allowed to live on their home planet, but may not leave it and may not intermingle with other races of the empire. You gain their bonuses only for that planet, and only at 25% of normal. Can colonize new planets.
c. Forced labour: The aliens are herded up into camps and forced to work for your people. You gain no bonuses from their race, but you do get a 30% increase in mining efficiency on the planet the aliens are located on. Not allowed to colonize.
d. Annihilation: Aliens are slowly reduced over time until they are no more...self explanatory. I'd avoid eating the soylent green.

On the policies, they should not only do what is described, but also have an effect on reputation. An empire that assimilates would recieve a small reputation boost, quarantine would be a reputation nuetral policy, Forced labour would be a small negative effect, and annihilation would make you evil. Obviously the policy would best be tied into the goverment type. Way of Darkness can annihilate away without too much worry, Republic would want to assimilate.

Also could be tied into the love/hate suggestion. Obviously if you hate the Boskara, you would actually approve of the Securans wiping off the galactic map and vice-versa.

Again, a simple table or number setting would suffice. Policy could be set by the player in game, but for the AI, policy would be set in a table for each race...IE just because you hate the Boskara doesn't mean you wouldn't like to assimilate the Sluken. A table just like the love/hate table suggestion would suffice.

0 = Assimilate
1 = Quarantine
2 = Forced Labor
3 = Annihilate

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quote: Brainsucker
Why not just erase the corvette, destroyer thing from the design and let the player to create their own type of ships?

Well, we have already free Tonnage Ship, so we could create our own type of ship.

The most important is not to limit the ship tonnage, but to create a condition that there is a limit that a ship has a battle efficiency weight.

Yes, a 10.000 KTon ship will be bad ass, just imagine the death star in Star Wars. It can become a mobile fortress. Buuut, just like in reality, It won't be very efficient to used in a battle.

In reality, big ships always escorted by the smaller ones. In World War 2, a battleship is the biggest, bad ass ship in the navy, but it won't be able to stand against smaller ships alone. Sooo
rather than limit the KTon of the ship type, the developer should create is a limit for the battle efficiency weight.

I have a suggestion although it require a lot of editing. What if you add "SHIP MANOUVER" You don't need to give a lot. Just put three or four types of manouvers. Just like hit and run, etc. This way, a smaller but fast ship will able to out-manouver the big one.

The problem for DW and other 4x game is that the game mechanic favors the bigger ships more than the smaller one. So player will create the biggest ship possible that the construction yard can create. Usually, to limit this, the developer will limit the ship Tonnage for each ship types. But it will force the players to create the biggest ship type available in the game.

To prevent this and make DW different to the other previous game, weapon arc should be implemented.
My idea is like this :
-Limit the Torpedo arc to only forward and backward.
- Split the energy weapon to several type. Blaster and turret for example. Turret will be given 360 degree arc but with short range and weaker fire power, while blaster will be limited to spesific arc, but has longer range than the turret.

This way, you can create several ship type for battle. A small but fast frigate with blaster, a capital ship with a lot of turret, a combined ship with torpedoes and turrets, etc.

What if a player decide to create a super fast ship? I mean a ship with the biggest KTon possible but equiped with a lot of engine? Or... to create the biggest ship possible for every ship type? Balancing the speed to the KTon is the answer. a 200 KT ship should be faster and agile than a 330 KTon Ship. In order for 330 KTon Ship to match the 200 KTon Ship speed, enormous truster and the manouver engine is needed. But it will reduce the space for other equipment. But it up to the player to decide their ship design. They want to create a super fast gigantic ship with only a blaster? why not?

To prevent the player creating only one single type of ship, add more support equipments to the design. This equipments will give great deal benefit to the player in combat but need a lot of weight to put into all ship. There is already one of this. The Long Range Scanner. But we need a lot more to create a big support ship that we called a flag ship.

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6). Being able to select a few ships, without making them a fleet and giving them an order to escort or patrol. Right now, if you select more than one ship. You can not give them a patrol or escort command. Only if they are in a fleet.

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ORIGINAL: Igard

I just copied this over from a discussion between Simulation01 and myself on the modders thread.

It makes alot of sense that a race would produce or manufacture something unique that they can then trade with others. Tholian silk is a good example or Romulan Ale.

Perhaps it could be designated as a 'Trade' resource. A new group of resources to go alongside, 'Luxury' and 'Strategic'.

Questions would be; How many special resources would each race have? (1 or 2 might be suitable); How much value would these have? (would they be as valuable as loros fruit?); and where do these resources come from? (do they only appear on the homeworld or do they get found on other worlds where the race colonises?).

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ORIGINAL: karstenchu

For Christmas this year I want the following:
-New ship classes.
-Carrier
-Fighter
-Bomber
-Ship to ship boarding
-SPACE MARINES

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ORIGINAL: karstenchu

Other things that would be cool:

Human pre-made starting system - I find myself frequently playing human and wanting to start off in our solar system. Is there anyway to make an option for humans to start off in their own, pre-made system. I feel like that'd be more like a story mode, I guess.

External map/ship design editor - Fun to do when you don't want to play the game but want to play the game.

Troop design - If we can design ships, why not troops? Then we can differentiate garrisons vs. marines vs. regular army.