03-30-2011, 03:29 AM
Interesting! This is very specific for a PBM game (at least in my experience). Usually epic scale games skip over the player controlled tactical battles for purely computer moderated battles.
Some questions:
Some questions:
- Will players re-target each tick/chunk?
- How will the answer to the above affect players who can't logon more than once or twice a day?
- Theres more to space battles than targeting. Will you add support for planning paths ships will take to support things like frontal assaults, flanks, etc?
- This level of detail seems to preclude very large space battles, as giving orders to hundreds of ships would be tedious and very anti-fun. Do you expect space battles to be small?