SEV 1.74 misc. Issues and Suggestions |
Post in this topic the suggestions that don't fit in the bugs and interface issues threads.
Re: SEV 1.74 misc. Issues and Suggestions
1. During race generation the race and government modifiers use double negatives:
Production is increased (Positive) 10% = correct usage in English
Production is decreased (Negative) -10%= incorrect usage in English and actually means + 10%
Possible solution is:
Production adjusted (+/-) 10%. Rather then using increased/decreased.
2. During non-finite resource games the resource % on asteroids decreases as you remote mine them, but planets remain the same.
3. During finite resource games the computer should auto-fix your production so the you don't extract resources that cannot be stored or used during that turn. This would extend the resources that your planets actually have.
4. Create strategies that are useful:
Defend warp point.
Defend planet
Defend ship
Defend space station.
5. In solar system view reduce the system modifier descriptions to 1-liners:
Mineral production +5% vs.
System Mineral Scanner increases mineral production by 5%.
Re: SEV 1.74 misc. Issues and Suggestions
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I would like to see a button on the tactical combat screen for "All Ships Hold Position" that would be very useful for the beginning of the turn where all the ships are where I want them. Having to go to each ship, select it go down to the Goto command and click on the ships position is highly irritating.
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I notice that when I scrap a ship that the supply and ordnance it has is not transfered to the planet. It should be.
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I think it would be great to be able to select the number of AI empires that the new game will generate instead of a fairly wide random selection.
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You can edit the settings.txt file to make the ranges a fixed number. Its indirect, but entirely possible.
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It would be good to limit AIs to cruiser sized ships, I'm in an advanced game and what was a good rival has started building Base ships - they look impresive but get wasted by 3 cruisers or 4 - 5 destroyers with minimal losses. Where as earlier in the game they had fleets of cruisers/destroyers and frigates which provided a reasonable fight.
Being able to turn-off the visual ship movement at the start of a turn or when you move a ship in the turn. You know where its going - you sent it there, therefore confirmation is not required.
Drednoughts and Base ships way out of proportion to the rest of the ships - almost as big as a planet, yet only a bit more than twice the size of a cruiser. I would like a base ship that is large enough to be self sufficiant, but small enough to still be able to warp - approx 10,000kt? (12 x the size of a cruiser)
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one annoying thing i find, is tactical combat around planets. if a ship goes "over" the planet, you cant give it orders and it sometimes gets stuck offscreen. make it so you cant order through planets or shoot over or through them (maybe implement accuracy modifiers for asteroids?)Also, if an enemy has a large fleet and brings it into tactical combat, ALL the SHIP ARE STACKED ON TOP OF EACH OTHER!!!!!!!!! they cant move independently, look ridiculous and make it very hard ot pick a target.
Add new space statio abilities, such as making space stations have population, facilities etc. bases shouldnt be spammed, they should be cities in space.
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Pop would need some serious codework, but giving bases "Facility" abilities is doable.
Re: SEV 1.74 misc. Issues and Suggestions
- Bring back the SE4 racial characteristics customisation (points AND sliders).
- .zip / .rar support for saved games (mainly because it's easier to send them when everything is already pre-grouped in a single file)
- a strategy for fighters guarding capital ships => stay close to picket/escort/core/tfleader
- the colony tech should be a racial tech, or at least the setup should have an option to enforce this
- make troops 5-10x bigger, ground combat is unplayable as it is now
- the supply system has to be changed: free supplies from emergency/supply storage components that make all supply (&ordnance) generating components totaly useless; weapon platforms not using supplies making planets impervious to attrition/supply draining attacks, no component for ships/units that would automatically ressuply other ships/units in the sector and no way to automatically make a fleet take all supplies available from other ships/units/planets in a sector.
- fix alliances. at the very least, they shouldn't cancel current treaties. In the meantime, remove the damn alliances.
- area effect weapons
- An alliance victory; tone down Mega Evil Empire; relations should gradually decline; alliances that MEE has should decline even more gradually; empires further away should be less affected towards the MEE
- scrapping population causes unrest and lowers relations with others; mass destroying opponent population lowers relations with others
- selecting a no warp-point game should give you the option for a costly limited use warp point creation item so you don't have to sit through a ton of turns to even get to the tech level.
- more than one ship yard for Ringworlds and Sphereworlds. Perhaps One shipyard for each Huge planet size of facility slots.
- only have the non-breathers of a planet domed incurring a penalty to production. Still keep the term "Domed" for the games tradition sake: example: "10% Domed incurring _____ penalty.
- an option to make warp point travel need several movemetn points, depending on the warp line lenght
- overpopulation should be bad for your colonies
- the possibility to order ships with space yards to add a % of their production capabilities to planet-based/ship-based yards of the same sector.
- crew casualties from weapons hitting ship armor/internals
- range ring colors depend on race color or weapon type. Several range rings, one for each weapon type.
- include player stats in an encrypted file if the the players can only see allies stats
- store separate turn combat replays in separate files
- Cooperative intel should protect your allies, not merely help them in their counter-attacks (which is rather poitnless)
- a blockaded homeworld should still give (at least some - 25%?) ressources to the empire
- shields and shield regeneration should draw supplies. They should partially regenerate during combats (depending on the number of days between the combats)
- max range ships are not paying attention that they are getting close to other enemy ships. This should be chaged.
- end turn auto save
- directed espionage/sabotage like in SE4!
- sats & drones (weapon platforms? => option to add crew) vulnerable to computer virus
- ressource conversion should be done at the same time as you receive ressources from colonies/trade, it should not be just another order (currently it's one of the last orders to be executed, since a planet has a movement speed of 0, which is problematic when you want to use these converted ressources to retrofit ships). Ressource converters should be limited in the amount they convert per turn to force you to build several of them.
- retrofit is very micro annoying but also very effective right now (just like emergency components) since you can execute several retrofit orders per turn. I propose to double the retrofit cost and to remove the 150% limit (this should also be beneficial to the AI).
- to make diplomatic contact, the empires should have seen each other - it should not work when one of them was cloaked (the cloaked one should still receive the other empire info)
- Planet-enhancing abilities (what's done in FQM is a good start, but it could be more diversified and frequent)
- Special projects (or wonders if you're more aware of this term)