[ian-reeds-games] Re: concerning Allans user guides
- From: "Allan Thompson" <allan1.thompson@xxxxxxx>
- To: <ian-reeds-games@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 19:41:36 -0400
Hi Niklas,
The asteroid is mainly there as a marker for navigation. I figured that it
could be something that a person could recognize as the middle of the map.
It doesn't really do anything else.
The aura sing are a made up race that has a special weapon. It is an energy
ball that does damage to units , even if it just passes them by within one
square of it. It then can explode on the target as well. I was originally
going to include them in a second starship battles map dealing with a borg
invasion, but then all sorts of things cropped up, I got started with
starcraft and never got around to it.
I hope that helped you out.
al
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Hi Al,
thank you for the explanation. BTW: the weapon wich works like a time bomb i
meant was the energy sphear or so, i don't know how to write it. And another
thing wich isn't clear to me is the asteroid. It's called a unit but how
does it work and what can be done with it?
Thank you.
best regards
Niklas
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> Hi Niklas,
> I figured it out, and yeah, it is something I should have explained in
> a guide, because it can be confuseing.
>
> You see, on the ships there is a list of skills.
> But because the computer could not use items, I turned the items list
> into a second group of skills that are actually considered items. The
> point was to allow players to use these higher functions, but deny them to
the computer.
>
> The problem is that these are not meant to be items. They are meant to
> be actual commands that you can use to help your ship. Some items are
> used for how well you regenerate warp energy, and how much your people
> will do damage control each round. I think those kind of things are
> in the starship battles primary map pack.
>
> So what you did was use the transporter to transport out the self
> destruct command, which actually doesn't do anything on a map, but
> just causes your own ship to self destruct.
>
> The three different transporter modes are:
>
> Transporter: This is used to transport items from ship to ship. These
> items are meant to be away teams, or special items designated in the
> map's description as something to be acquired or transported.
>
> The beam in actually "picks up items" from the map. So that is what it
> is, it beams items off the map into the ship.
> Beam out is the opposite, it beams items out of the ship and onto the map.
>
> I know that can be kind of confuseing and I am sorry I did not explain
> that very well in a guide. I promise I will try to get one put out. I
> will be gone for a week but hopefully I will be able to make a good one
after that.
>
> I hope that helps you out, and I am glad you mentioned it, cause it
> never occurred to me that that could happen. So good job!
>
> al
>
>
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> Hi Al,
>
> from what i remember, the Item was there even if the ship wasn't
> destroyed, just moved away from the tile with the item. The item
> sounded like the communicator in star trek, i think.
>
> Best regards
> Niklas
>
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> > Hi Niklas,
> > When it comes to age of warlords, anything is possible. Generally
> > speaking, it is finished, except for the polishing up of details,
> > which I didn't realize how much I needed to get done.
> > I am also open to suggestions and ideas from players, if they think
> > there is a way to make a map better, or if they want a different
> > kind of battle scenario. I tried to create those dual of destiny
> > maps so that people could set up their ownbattles cause it is hard
> > to cover
> everything.
> >
> > I think you are talking about transporter bombs. The orion syndicate
> > uses transporter bombs like torpedos. If an actual item was outside
> > of the ship, then I am not sure how that happened. Did the item
> > get left over when a ship was destroyed?
> >
> > It sounds like you had a heck of a fight! Better luck next time.
> >
> > As a side note, I always wanted to combine the two map packs cause
> > starship template was just something I used to help me test and
> > create maps and duels etc, and I thought others might be interested in
it.
> > But I guess it gets played.
> >
> > al
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > [mailto:ian-reeds-games-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Niklas
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> > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 12:44 PM
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> > Subject: [ian-reeds-games] Re: concerning Allans user guides
> >
> > Hi Allan,
> >
> > yes, to be more detailed would be very good. But keep it up, your
> > work is very fantastic man. It's great to see you are working on the
> > user guides already, so the map packs will get it in an update.
> > Great, thank you for all this especially for doing it without costs,
> > i have to say, if it would cost money, i would pay it for all the
> > hard work you put into it. Just out of curiousity, do you plan to
> > add more maps and content to age of warlords or is it finnished as
> > it is now? It's very
> gigantic already.
> > Ah, and another thing, in the user guides, please explain how items
> > in your maps work if they work in another way as the general. I had
> > in starship templates a ship standing on a tile with an item but i
> > don't know how to use or what to do with it. If i moved the ship
> > away from the tile, the item was still there. But i don't know what it
was.
> > Oh well, the AI was very angry about me. I placed a weapon onto a
> > tile with an enemy ship, i don't know the exact name of the weapon,
> > but I think it worked like a time bomb or such. However, at the
> > enemies turn the ship with my surprise on it explodes. I was soooooo
> > sad about it, i had cryed if I hadn't laughed. Hmmm, pitti for the
> > enemy. But his refenge was bloddy brutal. In his next turn, he shot
> > down 5 of my shuttles and a cruiser. I had a fleed of 9 ships, 3
> > cruisers and
> > 6 shuttles. in the next turn the nightmare goes on, because this
> > freec destroyed another cruiser and my last shuttle. However, he won
> > at the end, but I fought like an heroe till dead, yeah.
> >
> > best regards
> > Niklas
> >
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> > > Hi Niklas,
> > > Ok, thanks for letting me know about that need.
> > > I actually got a good chunk of the age of warlords user guide done.
> > > It made me realize that I need to go thru all the skills and make
> > > sure they are described better, sigh. I really should be more
> > > detailed with everything, but there is always something going on, lol.
> > >
> > > al
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: ian-reeds-games-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > [mailto:ian-reeds-games-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Niklas
> > > Rittinghaus
> > > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 4:12 AM
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> > > Subject: [ian-reeds-games] concerning Allans user guides
> > >
> > > Hi Allan,
> > >
> > > a thing wich should be included in the little user guide for
> > > starship battles template is how the missile pods work and how
> > > they can be used from the player for example. It was a thing i
> > > don't understand and does need clarification in the user guide
> > > since it hasn't been explained in the other starship map packs
> > > user guide as
> well.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > best regards
> > > Niklas
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