On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 16:07:44 +1000 n30n <n30n@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hey, > > hooray for discussion, it is good. we need more :D > > > <>Regardless of target audience, you may as well go all out and do the > > whole > > planet, that way if some guy wants to base himself in Ireland, silly > > bugger, > > then so be it, Ireland can be theirs (shotgun). > > maybe we could have a base continent for operations for each Majestic? > I don't think the country idea would be the best option - there are too > many. However continents could affect the turns taken to launch an > attack between players. Well, yeah. Just call them something cheesy like "South America Union" or something. Continents should come into launching attacks - but maybe you could choose for a team to go by, say, public transport or taking one of the black helicopters. O' course taking the black helicopter makes it a bit more obvious to get caught! > > > > Which brings another question to my mind, this world can't be empty before > > anyone's playing, would the world be populated by AI corporations and the > > like originally, with the possibility of player take-overs later in the > > game? > > taking over corporations and stuff isn't the objective of the game, > your objective is to have the highest net worth (which is your score, > and how you will be ranked). talking about scores, I've just got some > ideas for the scoreboard. but in the interest of keeping data separate & > structured, I'll send that in a separate email. Actually, nw should be determined in part by the economic side of your majestic. So maybe taking over corporations (np-ones) could bring an interesting way to get more power and stuff... -Mike