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Hah! I don't expect all these things. This is pretty much a run-down on how-to-make-the-ideal-moddable-game. Some parts of that are easier than others...

<t>That's pretty much what I was asking for - only worded differently. =) Ships moving around evading fire? Then i'll need to write complex collision avoidance mechanisms munching your CPU.IMO that's mostly a matter of scale.If the opponents are impossibly close to one another, then yes, collisions ...

<t>I agree that those guys should be fixed to a certain class of ship and might have different skillsets therefore but I also fear that balancing would be a bitch. Not necessarily.If a "Chief Engineer" can have bonus A, B, or C, and a corvette doesn't have a slot for an engineer, then the corvette ...

<t>So I stumbled over... packs. Why? Going with naval terms it goes something like this: FleetDivisionTask ForceSquadronFlotilla I'm sure you can pick a much better term than "pack", which makes one think of armed rabble rather than an organized military. "Wolf pack" (WW2 U-Boote) was an aberration ...

<t>True enough and this is the preferred method in several strategy games like MOO or GalCiv.Crew is fully abstracted, leaving only The Ship as an object you can interact with. SS is smaller scale, though. (assumption =)In MOO or GalCiv I had hundreds[/url] or thousands of ships and was actually ...

<t>Engage your capital ships in combat to improve your officer’s skills...What kind of scope are you thinking there?I don't mean in all gory detail but more a general direction like...A ship has one captain and that's the only one who can gain experience. Number of officer slots depends on the ...

<t>So I had the following idea (did not implement it): perhaps it would pay off to give 2 'roll' values for the ship: those two angles could represent:1- the maximum fire roll angle: when you have a target in your sights, your ship will roll to present this side to the enemy. 'This side' is where ...

<t>It was briefly mentioned on indiedb[/url] but more in a to-be-determined kinda way. Modding Unity is no different from modding any other game. It's a matter of how you set it up.It's not something that gets added late in development. At that point it's a lost cause.Game data files that are not ...

<t>What's your stance on it? Me, I see it as an equaliser to an AI that can change it's focus instantly and give complex orders to many ships in practically no time. It's also an opportunity to allow the manipulation of low level systems like the energy or shield settings on a particular ship ...

<t>#4 would be my second choice but it looks too cluttered and patched-together like it doesn't know what it wants to be. IMO a shiptype does one thing and does it well.A variant of a ship type should still largely stay within it's operating parameters.For instance, a battleship could have a long ...

<t>sad really but it is overpowered and the player would only forget about the smaller ships.The problem as I see it in the video are the turrets.They traverse super-fast and so they have no trouble bearing on "the smaller ships".If turrets traverse very slowlythey feel more massivethey can not hope ...

<t>Sorry but... none of the above. =) "Granular control of the ships" is probably closest to what I want to see but what is on my wish list: Instead of direct control of many low level systems on ships, I'd like to be able to define Rules Of Engagement.For instance:Retreat if visible enemy units ...

<t>we think that certain types of asteroid will have a radius limiting sensor detection, solar flare activity and local spacial anomalies will also reduce sensor ranges or worse disrupt sensors entirely. Each ship will have short and long range sensors, objects within short range sensors will be ...

(5)because it looks like it was built to perform a certain function. #1, for instance is just for looking pretty. With fins for... better steering? And my, what a conclusive poll we have here. That's gotta be helpful. =)