[ian-reeds-games] Re: Tactical Battle 1.12 dev 9
- From: "Allan Thompson" <allan1.thompson@xxxxxxx>
- To: <ian-reeds-games@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 03:21:54 -0500
Hey, that's great! I am glad to hear it. You got a solid trek knowledge and I
think you can really make your ideas come to life using the game Ian made.
It is like 3am, lol. I just wanted to ask one more thing.
Should I keep the academy briefing or toss that? It was a great idea, but every
change I made made the info start to lag, so I was thinking of ditching it, but
if you feel it is helpful it stays in.
So far I kept the three training sims in, mostly for the sake of continuity
more then anything else. I took out most stuff and kept int he stuff you said
to keep. The one map I am wondering about is the lyran trap one. other then
that map, the lyran don't really appear except for the final fight with teh
borg. So I wasn't sure if chucking it would kind of leave them hanging in the
wind, you know?
Other then taht, all I need to do is try to make sure everything still works
and consider it done.
I got to get to bed, talk to you tomorrow!
al
"The truth will set you free"
Jesus Christ of Nazareth 33A.D.
----- Original Message -----
From: shaun everiss
To: ian-reeds-games@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 2:49 AM
Subject: [ian-reeds-games] Re: Tactical Battle 1.12 dev 9
hi.
well if you can finnish the current arc that would be good.
maybe once you doodle your own stuff I may concider writing my own things.
once the full rpg is done we sertainly can handle the fool battle/
exploration and other junk I must say doing my own has appealed to me.
At 08:10 PM 2/10/2013, you wrote:
>Ok, I can't make promises but I will try to get the first starship
>whittled down to size and left as a complete series. I don't think
>it is worthy of being in any release however.
>
>The borg were always beaten and always with picard leading the way,
>inventing new and interesting ways to beat them. Only in one movie
>did he actually fight them and destroy them, in final conflict.
>
>As for something like your talking about, that is going to be very
>difficult. The game isn't really geared for anything more then very
>interesting tactical scenarios, and technically, the campaigns we
>all create are not really conforming to the purpose of the game as a whole.
>I also really don't have the time to keep all the fiction up to date
>in the maps. There is just not enough time and energy to do all
>that. That was one of the reasons I was making the new map, to be a
>kind of template for anyone, including yourself, to easily plug in
>your own stuff when the time comes when you feel a creative urge to
>put your vision into practice. It is my hope that it will be very
>easy for people to play with the map, if it is easy enough, ahnd
>make their own stuff.
>
>So, I think what I will do is make four maps. That player build one.
>The other three introducing a cast of characters in a alternate
>version of the first starship maps, as a homage to the new star trek
>movies. After that I can't promise anything. I have to rewrite the
>zombie stuff cause it is all old and I need to get the stuff working
>properly and I also got some fantasy stuff I want to complete. I
>know that ain't your thing, but I do enjoy that stuff and it is fun
>since it has a whole diffrent way of interacting with surroundings.
>
>I guess that isn't what you want to hear, but I really can't promise
>much more than that right now.
>
>Ian is using this game as a spring board to the ultimate goal of an
>rpg maker, where the tactical battles game will in essence be the
>combat portion of the rpg. To think, a fully customizable rpg that
>can feature anything in it, utilizing all these great tools to
>express creativity in an amazing interactive format! It's fantastic.
>
>al
>
>"The truth will set you free"
>Jesus Christ of Nazareth 33A.D.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:sm.everiss@xxxxxxxxx>shaun everiss
>To: <mailto:ian-reeds-games@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>ian-reeds-games@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 12:44 AM
>Subject: [ian-reeds-games] Re: Tactical Battle 1.12 dev 9
>
>well thats a major point, you could keep the same arc, and then make
>it bigger and bigger.
>however it doesn't have to end, you can switch around with different
>smaller arcs, if you can finnish the maps in the current arc and
>release those like some of the maps in the current arc with the old
>code are not fully completed.
>once thats done you can continue the arc but have smaller arcs, and
>all that goes to the main arc.
>My view is that you can keep the arc as it is for the main arc and
>finnish it off and release it.
>However you could just release the arc as it is with all maps
>finnished though because its prity much done and start a new one.
> or you could have the current arc as a alternit end.
>now no one said you had to have the borg win on resistance in fact on
>startrek cannon the borg never win, they almost win but never do.
>so you could always break the arc or start the new one assuming
>resistance was won.
>On the subject of saving the universe, thats really good but I liked
>the way the arc was before, with the origonal maps, that had hunt for
>gorn triumverate, fog of war then resistance.
>The other stuff was just filler.
>Now once done I't still would like to get more ships but you are
>right, even seasons of trek with kliffhangers only had 1-3 maps and
>never arced over that.
>there was a central arc, well the first enterprise had it, tos had
>it, and ds9 tng and voyager.
>Some of those were really loose but even so you don't need to stick
>with the major arc.
>but definately drama suspence and other junk as well as standard
>stuff of a more entertaining nature just like the old shows would be good.
>ofcause you will have to have stuff where not much of note happens
>but thats how the shows went.
>it doesn't all have to be fighting or fighting for any real purpose.
>it could be um well for example the spilling of a cup of tea.
>where and when on what or who could make the difference from a stupid
>event and a battle of sorts.
>trek was not all battling and exploration.
>in one case in voyager I remember an ep where a diplamat got drunk
>for some reason or another and needed the borg to fix him for one
>reason or another.
>and having to find how for the fact to avoid an embarasment or something.
>Well you could have something like that, have an stupid event but
>have it where you get yourself into an even bigger and bigger mess,
>maybe a full on war.
>and you find your item or whatever resolution to the even could be
>made simply.
>I am not sure but yeah having a break from battling all the time is
>one thing, no one said you need to stay on a single arc all the time.
>
>At 05:56 PM 2/10/2013, you wrote:
> >Hi Shawn,
> >Ok, those sound portable. I like the borg so I am going to port that
> >too, and I think it will be easier to balance the borg, hopefully.
> >
> >I am not sure what you had in mind for storyline. One of the things
> >that frustrated me was that I had to work within the paradigm of
> >this fed captain rising int he ranks with ever bigger and better
> >starships. I was hoping for something a little more episodic, each
> >map tells a little story without having to make it some broad
> >sweeping save the universe campaign. It doesn't evenhave to be the
> >same cast of characters, just maps that tell a little story of
> >themselves, maybe have a storyark season finale of two or three maps, lol.
> >I should get some companies to advirtise between map choices, grin.
> >Then the map choices would look like this...
> >
> >Birds of a feather
> >To kill a titan
> >Try new Schlotz beer!
> >resistance
> >fog of war
> >Schlotz beer tastes good! Now new klingon Targ flavor!
> >
> >al
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >"The truth will set you free"
> >Jesus Christ of Nazareth 33A.D.
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From:
> <<mailto:sm.everiss@xxxxxxxxx>shaun>mailto:sm.everiss@xxxxxxxxx>shaun
everiss
> >To:
>
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> >Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2013 9:00 PM
> >Subject: [ian-reeds-games] Re: Tactical Battle 1.12 dev 9
> >
> >maps I like
> >04 - Friends in Deed.txt
> >05 - Cutting the Cord.txt
> >07 - Birds of a feather.txt
> >08 - Seperation Anxiety.txt
> >09 - triumvirate.txt
> >12 - To kill a titan.txt
> >16 - Fog of War.txt
> >
> >these are all the maps I have managed to complete I'd still like the
> >borg, and some of the maps from that maybe but then what I put are
> >the maps I have managed to complete.
> >whatever you choose is your choice.
> >Are we going to have another story arc or are we just having a fiddle
> >round I'd like a story to.
> >
> >
> >At 11:27 AM 2/10/2013, you wrote:
> > >Hi Shawn,
> > >Lol, you want to chuck all the ones I like, grin.
> > >How about I keep the ones in the story in the old map pack, and port
> > >over the ones you like into the new one? They just won't have any
> > >story or anything like that.
> > >
> > >Your scenarios are probably doable once I get the moduler
> > >design worked out. I am still experimenting and trying things.
> > >Every time I try it I find out something new. The computer
> > >controlled dudes actually use items, so I must have been mistaken
> > >about that, so Ian , if your reading, Sorry buddy, my bad, as they
> > >say. Your three steps ahead of me.
> > >
> > >so, Shawn, when you get the chance, write down a concise list of
> > >maps you want to keep from the old and they will get ported.
> > >
> > >I am thinking of the ultimate map.
> > >It will go way beyond the arena. I think it might be possible to
> > >make a map, that a player can create, complete with units from both
> > >sides, and I think terrain even. It might have to be a map pack in
> > >itself, lol. I think it is doable though and it should be something
> > >a player can actually customize themselves. They can build it, then
> > >save it like a map pack with the save feature, so it would be like
> > >their own maps made by them for their own use. Yes, I think I will
> > >make that seperate cause that will be a huge undertaking but I
> > >think it will be the crowning achievement on the starship universe!
> > >That and a nickel will get me a cup of coffee at the local
> woolworths, lol.
> > >
> > >al
> >
>
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