[ian-reeds-games] Re: Another draft version of my map pack and Re: Multiplayer
- From: Craig Brett <craigbrett17@xxxxxxx>
- To: ian-reeds-games@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:05:00 -0500 (EST)
Hi Allan,
That sounds pretty rough, hope you're all better soon (or by now).
There's a lot of nasty bugs going around here in the UK (though it's
entirely possible you live here too).
I don't blame you, the Death Star test will hopefully eventually turn
into a pretty cool boss map. You won't have to kill it outright, don't
worry! I'm thinking just the Ties that come in later on. But I'm not
even sure about that, yet. Then... well then you have to go into the
trench.
No, you're not supposed to be able to attack Tie Fighters with the
standard main gun of the cruisers. I'm going to change that from an
attack to a turbo laser cannon of some kind so it's a bit more plain.
The cruisers use anti-fighter flak on fighters that share the same
space as them. This flak uses a different action type to normal, since
it's all done automatically by computers and stuff. Cruisers could
fight fighters and large vessels at once. This will be even better
if/when random comes in, if I can make flak hard to hit but very
damaging if it does.
I tried your Starship battles campaign. It looks fun! I can't beat any
missions yet, it just means I have to try harder lol. I like the amount
of different actions you can perform. There's a fair amount of strategy
that could go into a battle, except, it would seem, from me.
The new not moving until seen thing will come in handy for me I'd
imagine. I'll give it a try if ever I get some free time :) Good work
Ian.
Regarding multiplayer, as much as it would be cool, I feel as if it
would add a huge new dimension to things. Maps will go from simply
getting around AI challenges to trying to keep things either evenly
balanced or in some way fun for both players. Not necessarily a bad
thing, but it would involve whole new map packs needing to be written
as well as the code.
Which model would we want for multiplayer: A single server somewhere
where people connect and challenge each other or look for random
opponents, or a person to person connection where you type in the IP of
another player to connect to directly? The second is the one that was
requested in the original feature request, but there's definite bonuses
to having a central place for everyone to connect. Something to think
about. From an audio games perspective, to compare the two approaches,
Swamp uses a server approach whilst Top Speed used a person to person
approach.
I hope you're all well,
Craig
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