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Right now all planets are well planets?   I've heard it suggested that it might be intresting to have a few non-planet planets  mixed in to the galaxy creation.  which of the following strike your fancy?

astroid belts -use exploded planet  background, not capturable, no resources
2 (8.7%)
nebula - All ships are cloaked
5 (21.7%)
Tachyon singularity -  All cloaked ships are revealed.
4 (17.4%)
unclaimed planets - would have no resources (thats why they are unclaimed)
3 (13%)
moons - no bases can be built there, some resources,  but transfer ownership when parent planet does.
2 (8.7%)
Junkyard/ancient battlefield - resurrectable ships?  resource points with fixed income, harvest and gone?
7 (30.4%)

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Author Topic: Non-planet sectors of space?  (Read 911 times)

Offline PhilRoi

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Non-planet sectors of space?
« on: July 17, 2009, 11:37:06 am »
All this would of course be a royal pain to code...  we know that.   perhaps as an expansion?

any other thoughts?
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Offline darke

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Re: Non-planet sectors of space?
« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2009, 02:18:22 pm »
The "nebula" effect is already in game with that cloaking device the AIs use.

Having a permanent cloaking effect on a world would be considerably annoying as well. The AI doesn't use mobile anti-cloaking things except by accident (Tachyon Fighters), so they would be sitting ducks. The human players however only really have convenient anti-cloaking in the scout starship. It's range is small enough to be just barely useful to show up mines as it is, I wouldn't want to have to scour every inch of a planet with five scout ships to find the command center to destroy. :)
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Offline PhilRoi

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Re: Non-planet sectors of space?
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2009, 05:21:45 am »
lol,  most of these would have to be neutral.   just a sector of space to move through with no planets...


they also would also have a significant effect on gameplay.  I know we probably won't see them any time soon.   Fun to think about though...
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Offline CautiousChaos

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Re: Non-planet sectors of space?
« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2009, 08:25:25 am »
I'm actually against the idea.  Concerned with how this would affect the AI (negatively?), which is quite impressive today. 
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