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Whiskiz -> RE: A Weaponized Nerd's look at DISTANT WORLD 2's latest Game Setup video (1/28/2021 7:13:37 AM)
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Cheers Das, nice vid.
Glad to see you're as excited as the rest of us [:'(]
I just watched your review of the Space Combat and i thought about your views on Salvage, how you hope it's an automatic thing that can just be picked up by any ship any time or whatever and i must say i don't know about that.
Any battles you win you just auto pickup all the salvage, so it becomes a non existent mechanic and just means you get some resources every fight. The same for the NPCs.
To need a separate salvage ship adds a whole new mechanic, where you can do things like send salvage ships to a big battle that just happened between 2 other empires or something. If the Space Rats don't get to the salvage before you [:'(]
There's also the decision making and risk/reward of whether to send like a construction-ship esque thing to go hoover up some free mats in a potentially risky, ongoing conflict prone area and other situations that could make for some cool gameplay.
If it's nothing more than just auto pickup as you go or quickly grab with an exploration ship then it's reduced to barely a new mechanic at all.
If you find that too much micro-management, as with anything else it doesn't need to be done. Maybe there could be orders and automation for salvage ships or you don't need to actually do salvaging if you don't want to, as it just means some extra resources at the end of the day.
To say nothing of it being unrealistic that just any ship, especially military or small explorers can pick up and hold salvage as they go.
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