Maybe they should be here having this argument instead of you then? Again, show me a ship or a fight, or come fight me yourself. None of your points are backed up so its pointless arguing with you, not that mine are either but that's why we need actual cases to prove/disprove stuff.And here I refer you toZyrr and the Formiden Colonial Mandate.
I think perhaps this might be the wrong thread to have this very friendly and logical discussion. If you make a new thread and tag Ithirahad or Zyrr on it things would probably be a bit more organized.
I mean, yeah, its pretty hard to beat the exploitmobiles you roll around in regardless, armor tanking or not. Not to mention the fact that armor tanking works only quite well at very small or very large scale.
Hm, funny you mention that, it's a great game, but I already have it.Your imagination is out of control. You really think a game with thousands of planets is going to have millions of NPCs running around doing things? Much lighter games in more efficient engines struggle with 100 and they don't have custom built spaceships floating around everywhere. If you want to imagine all this crap here's a great game for you
Yes but, will this not end like the default stations after the rail update. In three or five updates all of this ships (all of this work and time builders have spended in it ) will be usless.
It will not be as bad as the rail update. So your finely tuned weapon that used to punch through 20 blocks now punches through 10, does not make your ship useless. just not so finely tuned.....
do you a solid idea of what system you want to put in place to execute that ?
I don't see how you possibly got "static" from this, since it explains the basics of how the factions expand.
Yes something with configurable parameters is what we had in mind. I do not know the specifics but it seems Schema has given it thought since Saber and I requested it early on.
I'm not sure how much farther the fleet ai will improve with this update. There may be changes to general ai behavior. Factions will likely do some simple patroling and trading. I suspect it won't be a out for another few weeks so we might know more as we get closer. The dev build has not updated since the last update so it's a pretty big change.
Since they do not really play the do not expand. it is not like there would be a cronjob running on the server simulating them even though nobody is online. If we are not looking nothing happens and when we return suddenly the faction has expanded even though they could not have for we parked those destroyers there - WTH HOW? because the faction ai does not get simulated that is why it will cause unforseen unexplainable things they could not have achieved. as long as they do not have to mine to have ressources as slong as they do not reaally play it is always cheating. HF Why would we welcome such an approach as "faction thing" why not really reduce them to inactive empires waiting for players to come along if we do not want to invest the serverside ressources of really managing them. I want a ressourceless faction not to be able to still exapnd if i made sure that damn faction has not a single roid anymore i do not want the game to cheat them stuff. This is why the approach does not excite me.
They will only expand into areas that have resources they need, and are willing to weight options. If you drain them of resources then they cannot gain resources.
the thing is in theory you could calculate for all that stuff. and we are testing to make sure that every eventuality gets taken care of. but idk man i still feel like i do not want it to be calculated i would want to send pirates out there and actually hunting their ships... if the do not really mine ...
Eh, Ithi, let's be honest here. You can only really put over 6 layers of hull on big sized ships. Ships that would surely have a weapon big enough to make easy work on it.
