Hi Shaun,
I hope you are recovering well.
I had to include more actions because the ships would not use
shields nor use primary weapons without them.
Also, your ships are exactly the same, plus you can access the
mission operations and engineering to allocate power and damage
control efforts, and you can use warp, reinforce shields, and
tractor beam as well as emergency power which the bad guys cannot
use, so you really have the advantage.
The damage is the price for more actions. I had to find a balance.
Heavy cruisers are actually kind of underpowered in this new one,
but I wanted to make the battleship to be the inbetween to the dreadnaught.
I also played thru each of these maps. I did beat them, but
sometimes I have to change things as more maps are made, and that
can throw balance out of maps if that happens, so sometimes while I
was able to test it earlier, I couldn't play it all the way thru
the other times due to time constraints. My wife is going into
surgery this week and I just wanted to get that done before hand.
If you find the user guide, or the intros are not giving enough
information, of if special skills are not working correctly and
stuff like that, that would be really helpful.
Some are going to be tough as nails. It will take tactics to get
thru some. I am sorry you don't seem to be enjoying it. I did
institute some changes based on what you told me before, and they
did turn out to be good changes overall.
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: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 4:40 AM
Subject: [ian-reeds-games] Re: starship minor update
allan I spent most of today due to the opperation I had yesterday
trying to play the battles map.
I have not won many of the maps, enemies have so many turns its not funny.
and as for beating the 2 crousers in mission2 wow I can hardly get them.
I can destroy 1 but even still.
the jugganaughts need to be tweaked or the ship weapons should that
get the big ships this could go for all ships to cause a little more
dammage, when hit.
I did notice that once I swarted playing maps like crazy eventually
things would slow to a crawl, now I am playing this on my ancient
2ghz core2 duo unit.
I plan in the next week to get myself an i7 quad with 6gb memmory in
it and an ssd so maybe I will have bettter luck.
At 01:22 PM 4/24/2013, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>I updated the starship map a bit, but nothing major.
>
>I converted about 15 sounds to mp 3, and was able to delete some of
>the old sounds from the ssb original pack.
>I also cleaned up the folders from excess files and the like, I am
>sure that won't help much.
>
>I also made integrity oints for planets seeable due tot he last map
>featureing the potential destruction of a planet and it would be
>nice to know how many points are left on the planet.
>
>Also fixed a problem where the federation stardrive in the
>seperation anxiety map could keep summoning saucer sections, lol.
>The heavy cruiser had two self destruct items so got rid of one of them.
>
>I think that is about it.
>
>I also wanted to ask if all fed ships might feature a saucer
>section seperation ability in the future? Klingon boom sections
>could also seperate from the secondary hull.
>
>I updated the starship template a bit. I made a new race to handle
>the energy sphere with the aura effect, and plan on useing them in
>the future, but they aren't really fleshed out yet as a race, etc.
>
>al
>
>"The truth will set you free"
>Jesus Christ of Nazareth 33A.D.
