[ian-reeds-games] Re: concerning Allans user guides
- From: "Allan Thompson" <allan1.thompson@xxxxxxx>
- To: <ian-reeds-games@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 17:07:07 -0400
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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Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 4:04 PM
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Subject: [ian-reeds-games] Re: concerning Allans user guides
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
>
>
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> 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
> >
> >
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> > 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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