[ian-reeds-games] Re: starship battles basic
- From: shaun everiss <sm.everiss@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ian-reeds-games@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:54:09 +1300
hi allan.
Once again more stuff to actually do.
I will have a small break to do some data transfers of some dvds a
friend let me borrow then we will see what your stuff is like again.
actually it may be a good idea to test while I transfer data from the dvds.
Yeah I like pounding the entire enemy into next week.
as an asside the moment I am say 2 spaces away from entering
transporter range say like 26 3 or something blade of glory should
open up with everything on the station to stop me getting to it.
On the arena thing yeah should be interesting.
I think juggernaughts at least for the borg should be well as strong
as a standard cube maybe less, between 2000 and 6000 maybe.
they could still loose, not sure on that one.
There is no reason for the pack to end, once you have finnished the
current arc you can start on another one and so on etc.
if it gets to big you can always devide each arc into a pack and then
we can have a series.
hmmm interactive fan fiction.
At 12:03 PM 2/4/2013, you wrote:
Hi Shawn,
Thanks for doing all that. It really helps me out.
Ok, this might be long so bear with me.
I thinkt he first hunt map is complete. One group of klingons show
up, the evil spase should die and the wormhole is available to do
the escape to wint he map.
The second map, I fixed that little problem with not getting the
data, when you should have. I played thru most of it and also fixed
the jury rig thing. It should only take one uncloak to fix that
instead of two or more.
I am pleased you won the kill map! I am not sure what that is all
about witht he not doing damage so I will check it out.
I rearranged the moment map a little. Same basic pieces, but with
blad of glory in the bottom left, your in the upper right near the
star. The aurora is placed int he middle. I also made a transport
supplies skill you had mentioned before, and used it on that map to
test it out. Try it and see how you like it, if it should be a
common skill for all ships. All ships have a max of three supplies however.
I am fiddling with destroyers, and thinking of cutting down the
fighter compliment on juggernaughts to four or six with two destroyers.
Destroyers are going to be a kind of medic. The will have a constant
supply of supplies, lol. Their replicators are going to pump out
supplies so they can transfer them to wounded ships. I am also
considering other destroyer jobs, but the tenders are the ones I am
leaning on. I haven't really made up my mind on them, but I think it
might be better then dealing with two dozen fighters.
As for the fighters, they should only be released two at a time
cause it takes warp and actions to do so. If more are coming out
then that, then I screwed up somewehre. It doesn't cost anything to
launch shuttles however, and that is what makes shuttles worth while
compared to a fighter class shuttle.
I changed the gunfight hull/impulse to health/movement.
I also did what we talked about, making a seperate room int he
bottom of the left room to add a little trek classic final battle
with the bad guy kind of thing. Of course, when I did it, I piled my
guys in and overwhelmed the poor klingon, lol. I reset the timer to
12 instead of ten cause it just wasn't enough time. I might have to
increase it, but I think it might work better.
I am thinking of making doc sheldon a total player unit. Everytime
he jumps forward like a madman and gets himself shot and killed, lol.
I added extended intros to flight, and moment maps. I think they
went well, although the beginning of the momentvictory text I might
have to change if it is super hard to beat. As of this writing, I
couldn't beat it, cause the constitution class shipsare a bit too
under power in the phaser department and photons, although they are
technically correct. A constitution class ship would get cut in half
with the phasers of TNG ships.
I had thought about quantum torpedos too...but maybe the
juggernaughts will deal with that.
I simply haven't had time to mess with the borg. If I lower the
shields a bit, would that help? That map is going to be one of those
that even if you win, you lose due to the plot of the next few maps after it.
Lastly, I said 20 was my limit, and then I immediatly broke that
promise, lol.
There is nothing there yet int he map, it is just a placeholder but
I have a plan for a holo deck simulation where it is an "Arena".
My plan is to allow a player to select any ships they want, in any
combination, and use them to fight player chosen enemy ships of any
type or amount. Well, I am thinking ten per ship anyway.
It will be a little awkward, because a player can't manipulate an
evil units skill list, nor can an evil unit summon a good unit etc
and so forth. So it will kind of force the player to choose ships,
wait a round for the evil side to pump out the ships, and then start
the fight ont he third round.
There is really nothing I can do about the ships launching all in
one spot. Even if I gave the enemy ship a range of two for launches,
it would pile up all the shuttles/fighters up two spaces away
instead of on top of it. If I changed the map to not allowing
stacking and the like, then I would have to change everything just
for one map and I am just not keen on that. So I guess that is
something either someone will have to write a script for or we will
have to just deal with that particular problem.
In actuality, it makes sense to launch fighter craft on one's own
square if they are intended for a firghter screen against other
fighters, although they do tend to bunch up anyway.
they aren't going to make it anyway. As you pass on by
On the flight map, I think maybe your focusing on sticking around
and having a face to face punching match with the klingons. They are
there to slow you down or stop you, so when you do that, that is
exactly what they wanted, lol.
Instead, you want to focus on your primary objective, which is to
get to the station. You couldn't do it before cause I forgot to put
down the transporter range terrain. That should be fixed now.
What I did was simply to continue going straight thru. I didnt'
maneuver or anything of that nature. I just decided to use torps on
the fighters, and to toss my fighters out the back as cannon fodder,
which would take some weapon fire off my back. I got thru the
blockade and had to actually wait a bit for the klingons to catch up
to me, lol. Since I was close to the station and make it easily
within the time limit, that is when I spanked those klingons into
the next generation! grin.
Not every map requires the entire death of the enemy. Some maps are
going to have diffrent conditions.
Oh, and I did check out the forcefield, and that should be working
now. Just get within 1 space and use the close forcefield skill on it.
It 's great to talk to you about these maps and trek! The arena map
is actually directly from your input about you making a borg
and planet killer fight. I got to work on that a bit, that is going
to be a bear but I think it will be awesome once it is finished.
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 03, 2013 3:46 PM
Subject: [ian-reeds-games] starship battles basic
Hi allan.
Well I was busy yesterday but I thought I better test the maps I was
going to test right now so you have something to doodle on and not be
waiting for me.
The first titon map was a challenge, but I was able to finnish it.
The second though is a problem.
I found the ships to scan.
decloaked.
scaned them.
went to my pd.
and got told you don't have the data.
Even though I was told I had the data.
in to kill a titon I was able to vanquish the enemy however an
interesting note.
sometimes the first shot from a ship would count but any se
subsiquent ones wouldn't from any weapon till the turn was done.
the enemy was quite low in health and well.
Sertainly more interesting though.
the borg still need to be tweeked as I can't beat them in the
resistance or last maps with the ships I have.
I think there should be a skill to deploy your fighters say 1 or 2
spaces away as due to some limitation you can't seem to be able to
deploy everything at once.
and on the juggernaughts I want every ship deployed at once not just
19 ships on one tile, maybe have everything but put all the fighters
and such round the ship on ajasent tiles.
especially on the borg maps.
on the earlier maps you at most have 4 ships and probably want to
deploy 2 at a time.
Also when I started the last map the klingon juggernaught was evil so
I switched it to team1 but still hard couldn't beat the borg.
Although I was able to beat moment in time, I lost my origonal ship
and had to use the enterprise to do that.
On the flight to icarus I was able to complete it but everything but
my ship was destroyed, station as well.
that star is really a pain in the rear, and the klingons took ages to kill.
in the gun fight maps I was able to kill the warriors on my level
easily however although I walked over the chips and such I couldn't
get the forcefield to open so that was the end for me.
Thats all for today.
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