[ian-reeds-games] Re: Tactical Battle 1.11 dev 5
- From: "Allan Thompson" <allan1.thompson@xxxxxxx>
- To: <ian-reeds-games@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 23:28:19 -0500
I don't get it. I am not trying to be obtuse, I am not sure I follow what the
problem is.
I mean, My first thought for a map in space would be to have space as a terrain.
My palnets and the like would have thier own terrain. Give terrain limits on
each one, and your ships don't go on land, your ground guys don't go on space.
If you want a ship on land, then create a land skill, where it gives the ship a
flying flag for a duration.
It would be nice to turn passive on and off. That way it could be on or off as
the person needs it.
Maybe a landing site could be ont he various planets and moons. Make it a
terrain and add it tot he terrain limits. Doesn't it take a comma seperated
number of terrains? Maybe I am wrong at that. If it does, then I would make
that landing site one territory that both ground and ships can be on.
But, I agree, there should be a block flying flag for those situations someone
wants to use that. Come to think of it, when you mention tunnels, I am
realizeing that a flying critter could easily pass "over" dungeon mountain or
stone walls, when it was supposed to be underground and impassable in that way.
Burrowing would be the flag for something like that, lol.
so, yeah, I think you hit on a situation where flying is needed to be blocked!
anyway, good luck on that, grin.
I just checked, terrain limits does accept comma seperated terrains. That
should be really helpful I think.
al
Does that sound workable?
"The truth will set you free"
Jesus Christ of Nazareth 33A.D.
----- Original Message -----
From: Austen Perry
To: ian-reeds-games@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2012 10:25 PM
Subject: [ian-reeds-games] Re: Tactical Battle 1.11 dev 5
rofl be nice to have a no terrain instead of terrain limit, as the
only terrain i don't want other units on is space rofl.
On 12/30/12, Allan Thompson <allan1.thompson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Would this be the one map, or diffrent maps your talking about, where the
> encounters take place?
>
> If you are worried aobut ground units, why not leave them as having a
> terrain limitation and let everything else out in "space" walk about
> normally, just call it space without any impassableness. The tunnel would
> then be normal tiles for spacecraft.
> Does that work, or am I missing the point? I mean, that is what I would
> try anyway, grin.
>
> al
> "The truth will set you free"
> Jesus Christ of Nazareth 33A.D.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Austen Perry
> To: ian-reeds-games@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2012 9:53 PM
> Subject: [ian-reeds-games] Re: Tactical Battle 1.11 dev 5
>
>
> hi,
> i am going to make a moon battle for my space fleet, where the moon
> has passages big enough for some ships and will be interesting.
> the problem is space tiles are impassable, so therefore ships have
> flying as a flag. because of this as well, making a map with
> confinements is impossible, and the reason space is impassable is so
> that ground units dont just get up and start walking in space.
> i want one of 2 things as a feature,
> 1 make a flag on terrain that impeeds movement from both normal moves
> and flying. this would be like a superimpassable lol as i need
> something to stop flying units.
> 2 make it to where you can remove a flag from a unit on a map in the
> map file, wich you currently cant do unless -flying will take the flag
> flying away from the ships.
> i am also glad i ran in to this as some flying units wouldn't be able
> to go over some high structures and makes since.
> i would also think about having structures be unflyoverable as a tall
> building and with a ferry trying to fly over it would be better if the
> ferry couldn't but could go over a short building.
> just an idea and this problem pretty much stops me from making my map
> wich i just suddenly got an inspiration to make from reading the
> outlander series of graphic audio books lol.
> if you dont know what that is check it out at
> graphicaudio.net but its givven me a lot of ideas and vaddas war and
> the sarano legacy can also be found there.
> please let me know what might be done about an inside area where walls
> are impassable to even flying units.
>
> austen
>
>
>
> On 12/30/12, Ian Reed <support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hey Austen,
> >
> > Wow, lots of ideas. Great stuff for my list.
> >
> > The binocluar skill is a good one. I've seen this done as a "far
> > seeing" skill in other games.
> > Additionally we should get a sight_range_modifier= flag at some point
> so
> > being on certain terrain could improve a unit's sight range or decrease
> it.
> > A boggy swamp or forest might be hard to see through while a hill might
> > give you extra visibility.
> >
> > The fog is really only for the player. The AI works quite differently
> > and out of necessity needs to see the whole map.
> > Getting a feature for AI to ignore you could be done through
> > invisibility or as you've mentioned before a flag that makes the AI
> wait
> > until you are in their sight range which is still on my list.
> > The sight range modifier flag would solve the scanner scenario as the
> > normal sight could be 0 or 1 and the scanner skill could apply an
> effect
> > that grants more sight for a duration.
> >
> > Regarding filling in fog. I think I'd do this with a visible flag on
> > either terrain or regions.
> > Then wherever the terrain or regions with that flag are placed would
> > always be visible to the player.
> >
> > The fog should currently work as a unit hider.
> > Basically there are unseen and unexplored.
> > Once a tile has been seen it becomes explored and the player always
> > knows the terrain that is there afterward.
> > But once you move units so the tile is not in their sight range it
> > becomes unseen.
> > An unseen tile does not show you which enemy units are on it, but you
> > still know the terrain.
> >
> > Another thought is that I could add an explored flag to terrain or
> > regions so that they would already be explored when the player starts
> > the map, but still unseen.
> >
> > Ian Reed
> >
> >
> >
>
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