Re: Campaign tech levels (research approach) - (was: FTFB: Scenerio + Q?'s)
From: "Jared E Noble" <JNOBLE2@m...>
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 09:56:55 -1000
Subject: Re: Campaign tech levels (research approach) - (was: FTFB: Scenerio + Q?'s)
>Oh this sound sooo cool! 8D
>
>The only thing I can think of to improve it: Require a player to wait
a
>turn or two before receiving the advancement. This would slow down
mid-game
>instant tech achievements. (ie: After a player controls a few worlds,
he
>can spend more on research, and still stay within the research %
limits...)
>
>Or am I going off the deep end?
>
>Donald Hosford
I think that the solution is to make it a multi-step process to
implement
the technology. First research it, as in the chart. Then refit
construction yards (a 1 or 2 month process), then begin construction or
refits on actual ships. If you place a maximum of how many construction
points can be allocated to an individual ship each turn, then fighters
may
be built in a single turn, while larger ships have a natural slowdown.
Another benefit is that different shipyards have different capabilities.
Your home yards may have recently upgraded to building class-3 beams,
while
an outlying shipyard still can only build class-2. So you prioritize
what
gets built where, adding much more flavor. The same holds true for
repairs. Maybe your ship/repair yard near the front lines can't handle
pulse torps - so if you want to repair a ship that has had it's pulse
torps
destroyed, you might be forced to install something else, instead
(perhaps
your only p-torps yard has gotten toasted...)
Anyway, that's probably enough rambling for now.
Jared Noble