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Jeremy Mac Donald -> RE: toaw evolution (10/16/2005 4:24:09 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Mantis
Jeremy - in response to your post about production, I mean something a little bit more than just equipment. I want to add to the OOB. As an example, let's take a generic 5 year war. A Red vs Blue type thing. I want the players to be able to decide to be tank heavy, and have several extra armored corps by the end of the scenario. The other player went for infantry, and has spent all his production on that (or whatever). I know that disbands can simulate production in the fashion that you mention, and events could even simulate giving the player a choice of what to build. But I want the player to actually form new units in scenarios where that would be reasonable, such as R vs B above, etc. I know that even this could be simulated with a chart to weigh production times, and a horde of events, but I was thinking something more along the lines of production ala Hearts of Iron or GG's World at War.
OK - personaly if what you describe has an on/off toggle in the scenario design utility then its all for the good. If some scenarios have production points but other more operational ones use some some other system I don't see the problem.
This is however beyond what I am personally interested in, which really is much more of a system that allows desingers significantly more power to deal with replacements on an individual level instead of being forced to increase or decrease every piece of equipment in the scenario by the same percentage Or we can pick a specific turn and have production of that piece of equipment completely start or stop on that turn irrispective of whats going on in the scenario. Basically currently what we have is an extraordinarly crude tool that designers have to bend over backwards in order to get around - and even then its always by sacrificing some other element.
Personally I'm not so sure I even want the players choosing whats actually being produced but as a rule I do want the designer to have that latitude. Generally equipment was increased or decreased because of a wide veraity of factors - usually because it was what was already available on the production lines and it was generally halted because it had been substantially outdated. I think the designer is in the best position to decide when individual pieces of equipment should increase or decrease in relavence.
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