A future Idea... Generals, Admirals, galactic provinces...

That falls into "wouldn't it be nice"... and that sounds like it would be a micro-management nightmare.

There are 10 types of people in the world:

Those that understand binary, and those that don't.

I tried a google search, all I got was a buncha books.

There are 10 types of people in the world:

Those that understand binary, and those that don't.

The subject says it all

There are 10 types of people in the world:

Those that understand binary, and those that don't.

*Coughs* Moo2

Your lord and master (below Foamy) LordHavoc

I really don't like the idea of bringing that level of RPG-ness into the core game. A mod, maybe, but not the core game. It's an interesting concept but not one that I'd care to see in every game I play.

Also, this would probably be a pain in the neck to code in, bring in more bugs, and require new interface art.

Anyone know if it's possible to have cargo give a ship an ability?

Long ago, there was a game called Star Empires by TSR. I never really got into it, being that it was a lot of paperwork, but it had one thing that interested me.

It had a flow chart of events. You rolled a die, and went along the chart. IIRC, you could influence it somewhat, but there was also an inevitability about it. For instance, your empire might fall into stagnation (no more new colonies, research stops, wars stop, etc.), then later decadence, (wasting resources), then maybe later it becomes expansive, ( you must take an enemy colony every so many turns.), and if you fail, you suffer a coup and then launch a war of agression.

I like the idea of provincial governors. Maybe one of them gets an itch to become Emperor. I like the idea of rulers along the lines of Europa Universalis II with some Annals of Rome thrown in. ( That's what I get for reading about the Ottoman Empire as well as the Romanov dynasty.

Uhm, again, that's rather different from the Space Empires series to date. Very, very different. I don't want to have to wonder whether or not my government in the game is doing what I told it to. I especially don't want to be wondering whether or not factions within my government are looking to knock me off.

Space Empires has never been about the internal politics of a society but about its expansion and development as an interstellar power. I'd kind of like it to stay that way.

Yes. Look in the vehicleunittypes.txt file:

Unit Capabilities
---Abilities Added To Parent When In Cargo

Simply create a new unit type called Generals/Characters/whatever, make it similar to ground troops in most respects except it has the above unit capability. Then make a bunch of units to vehiclesizes.txt with specific abilities built-in.

Oh, he's describing something along those lines? N/M, I was thinking of something more MoO3ish...

There are 10 types of people in the world:

Those that understand binary, and those that don't.

Here here, if one of my administrators was plotting against me i'd hire my intellegence department to 'make him dissappear'. In other words, i'd have him/her shoved into a drone capsule and fire him at the nearest meat eating war mongering race of giant lizards or something.

Your lord and master (below Foamy) LordHavoc

I played it along time ago and thought it was awesome but i had to return it and at the time i was too young to buy my own games.

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Now get the hell out of our galaxy! -Captn Sherridan

if ur into the provincial governor idea (a great idea in my book) try out Hearts of Iron. Im currently playing HOI2:Doomsday and its awesomesauce. PS. MOO2 had leaders like this so i dont think it would be all that hard but then again this game is already got enough issues w/o adding even more complication to the mix

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Now get the hell out of our galaxy! -Captn Sherridan

Romance of the Three Kindoms (most recent being 10 on PS2) is an AWESOME series, i would recommend it to all.

Also any paradox interactive games... i think their site is forum.paradoxplaza.com or something like that. Every one of their games are excellent, but my preference is:

1. Victoria (revolutions)
2. HOI2 (doomsday)
3. EU series
in brackets is the name of the version you would buy if you were to get it now.

Victoria is their most complex, yet most fun game. You can industrialize a nation, populations, politics, and government are important in the game. I love turning countries like Peria or Argentina into a democratic nation friendly to immigrants and turning into a superpower. Very fun game.

HOI2 is a war simulator, lots of action. It has more complex and FAR better combat than Victoria but FAR less domestic/political control.

EU in its current form is from 1454-late1700s. Its a fun game but their most simple.

edit: I wouldn't recommend playing Victoria as your first paradox game, is has a steep learning curve. If you do you will need to go to their forums and go to the wiki (vicky wiki) and do the tutorial, that helped me learn. They have a wiki + tutorial for all of their games.

I always thought The Human was a absolute dictator in the SE's series. To add personality to it, would make it more into a Galatic political sim with 4x added as a after thought. Sorta like the GC series of games. (Good\neutral\evil, Political votes, Ethical decisions, etc.)

Perhaps Galactic conquest is a game you should seek.

I think that have captain, generals, admirals, and other "heroes" would be great, I love a little RPG touch in this games... a little like the Total War series, but maybe not so in-depth...

I don't think was going for a mass-produced general like solution