Thread for Campaign Comments

[Maarek_Stele]

@Wasabi of IP

or have an “odyssey” mode, where you start with a ton of credits and have to build a fleet that can go through multiple planets and you cannot build new ones, though you can capture ships and repair ships.Then maybe when you get to a certain place, maybe your home world, you win. You go through a map with multiple paths, and each takes you eventually by some route to the homeworld. Then you would truly need develop multi-purpose balanced fleets. It would be kind of like survival, excpet the race is always different, you can repair ships between waves, and you can rearrange them. The similarity is endless waves of fleets, and you can’t deploy new ships.

Odyssey Mode, sounds like a great idea. Can we mod the campaign? I would like to see someone add this option

[Wasabi_of_IP]

YES
WE
CAN

[Lonestar]

@Wasabi of IP

YES
WE
CAN

**Faceplams at this comment as he gets a “Bob the builder” picture in his mind. **

[Wasabi_of_IP]

So thats where Obama got it from…

[Tohron]

@Maarek Stele

@Tohron

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Using Stock fleet designs will shorten the campaing lowering Player interest in a repeat playability of the campaign.

Like all Strategy games, your forces begin to over power the enemy late game due to your larger never ending resource consumption, and ending the game at a faster rate and lowering your excitement. How can we improve on this? If you take technology into consideration and defense, your homeworld would be the strongest compared to your outlying controlled systems. Since the Campaign is designed to take existing player fleet designs, the AI should compensate and defend against your large fleet with something of a similar size. The result is that as you progress through the campaign, the opposing fleet size should get larger and larger. I also want to point out that I didn’t factor in AI aggro and when they fight back.

One thing I would like to see is consistant Race control. If I fight a system with one race, I don’t want to see another race be the offensive race when I’m defending. There should be some sector race control where that race controls a number of planets that are grouped together. I guess I can design my own system to do that.

The “late game tedium” problem is definitely an issue with 4X style games in general - one way to address this would be to apply the consistent race control you mentioned, and to design planetary production so that the focus of fighting a race is wearing down and defeating their main fleet, after which you can quickly mop up - combine this with having distant races get better planets and you could keep the final mop-up phase short.

As for the replayability problems of stock ships - one solution would be for Cliffski to keep integrating the best-performing campaign ships (by saving post-battle stats) into the game and the AI deployment algorithm, until all the races have a good selection of ships.