Our Map of the Galaxy

[Civman09]

i thought this was going to be a regular mapped land instead of planets which i dont think is a good idea because then if you do land you could have better units like jedis and sith and now spaceships.

 

[Terrance888]

Make Planets Wraparround!

Also, in Frontier the systems are based on I think Inverse Multiplictice to distance/whatever to make them look big enough. Maybe have space combats and ability to auto-resolve combat with planets acting as an over all city.region or you can zoom in for stories or if you want to reduce casualies.

So maybe "Hazfar" (Desert Planet, 1 City, 5 Outposts, 10,000 Droids and 500 Big Guns. Resource: Spare Parts, Yucky Gas)

Zoom in for the battle: 100 Droid Units and 5 Artillar Units on a map with a large stretch of desert and 1 City and 5 small cities. There are a few mines and 1 space port.

That wold be hard to implement though... Maybe 5 battle turns then do the overall turn, then battle turns?

 

[Humakty]

I voted 9, I read the thread, and now I vote 4...

 

[civ editor11]

nine would be the best

 

[Paulwe]

What about different planets have different size?

 

[Shackel]

I think that the land should be a bit bigger.

Maybe a representation of Earth could be 9 squares, but one of those "Super-earth" classes could be 25 square, you know, so it's bigger.

 

[civ editor11]

25 makes for a gigantic map that would be hard to make with the 9 planets
So we have decided on a nine plot planet which we have already made a partially working mapscript for

 

[Sagitario]

Just wanted to get an idea of what people want for the map.

The planet should be 4 tiles. Biggest to build improvements/land troops while small enough to prevent more then one city being built.

 

[Sagitario]

25 makes for a gigantic map that would be hard to make with the 9 planets
So we have decided on a nine plot planet which we have already made a partially working mapscript for

There will be 2 cities on planet surfaces?

 

[Sagitario]

Make Planets Wraparround!

Also, in Frontier the systems are based on I think Inverse Multiplictice to distance/whatever to make them look big enough. Maybe have space combats and ability to auto-resolve combat with planets acting as an over all city.region or you can zoom in for stories or if you want to reduce casualies.

So maybe "Hazfar" (Desert Planet, 1 City, 5 Outposts, 10,000 Droids and 500 Big Guns. Resource: Spare Parts, Yucky Gas)

Zoom in for the battle: 100 Droid Units and 5 Artillar Units on a map with a large stretch of desert and 1 City and 5 small cities. There are a few mines and 1 space port.

That wold be hard to implement though... Maybe 5 battle turns then do the overall turn, then battle turns?

Can there be multiple battle turns within a regular turn?

 

[civ editor11]

The multiple turns within one turn would require a reworking of the DLL We don't have the people or time to do that. We're going with 9 tile planets along with the python and DLL modifications we've been talking about. If you have questions look at the corresponding threads.

 

[Dumanios]

Perhaps Planet size should be an option much like map size and climate would be in the normal game.

 

[civ editor11]

We already have the mapscript set up we can work on those kinds of things after Version 1

Nice to have you back Dumanios can you do 3d graphics?

 

[dommain]

A couple variations might work. Smaller 5 tiles worlds would work ( + ) shape with couple ( box with + ) 14 shape worlds (for balance they could all be ice)

One thing, the palanets should not be all one chariteristic.
Desert plaent could have a cuple hills with possibility of 1 oasis on one side.
Ice planet could have a couple of mountains. with 1 or 2 tundra plots

You start on a huge disadvantage if you start on a Ice, fire, or desert planet as it is now.
You have a huge advantage if you star on a planet with all water.
This can be corrected by change the build up of each planet make up with also changing the yields slightly.

 

[civ editor11]

I will try to fix this but our python editor has left so It might take a while this isn't something we need for version 1