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| ID | Project | Category | Date Submitted | Last Update | |
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| 0001895 | AI War 1 / Classic | Suggestion - New Features | Dec 7, 2010 5:20 pm | Feb 3, 2011 1:37 pm | |
| Reporter | Fleet | Assigned To | Chris_McElligottPark | ||
| Status | considering | Resolution | open | ||
| Product Version | 4.046 | ||||
| Summary | 0001895: Planets should have more pizaz! | ||||
| Description | Recently read through a forum post where Vinraith started at Wolf 359. So now I'm thinking, planets should have special events! For example, if you take over a planet named "Wolf 359", you would be subject to a spontaneous warp of cloaked Warbird starships at some point. There is a *TON* of potential for making lots and lots of unique planets, which would really diversify the battlefield. And there would be lots of tie-ins and references to other Sci-Fi franchises. | ||||
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It's funny when these things happen by chance, but I think planning them would just be sort of cheesy. It'd also require standardizing planet names, or most people would never see most of them and it would be wasted work. |
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What do you mean by having to standardize planet names? The game would pull from its repository of names, and if those names were associated with a special event than it would apply that. There could even be a mechanic where 90% of the planets are "normal", and 10% are pulled from a special repo of planet names that all have special effects associated with them. |
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Planet names are randomly generated by default, with the sole exception of "Murdoch." That's what the altplanetnames.txt file is for in your RuntimeData directory. The only reason I had a "Wolf 359" in my game is because I put an index of 100+ real star names into the alt planet list. |
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Don't have it be triggered by names, just have a very small chance of some weird crazy event happening, with equal probabilities of it being good, bad, or not really having any major effect (but still being weird). |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| Dec 7, 2010 5:20 pm | Fleet | New Issue | |
| Dec 7, 2010 5:30 pm | Vinraith | Note Added: 0005556 | |
| Dec 7, 2010 5:57 pm | Fleet | Note Added: 0005560 | |
| Dec 7, 2010 6:00 pm | Vinraith | Note Added: 0005561 | |
| Dec 9, 2010 12:28 am | Chris_McElligottPark | Assigned To | => Chris_McElligottPark |
| Dec 9, 2010 12:28 am | Chris_McElligottPark | Status | new => considering |
| Feb 3, 2011 1:37 pm | Sunshine | Note Added: 0009996 |
