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by **thenobodies80** on Tue Apr 10, 2012 6:09 pm

The Bin is definitely NOT the right place for this one.

[Moved]

by **lostatlimbo** on Fri Apr 13, 2012 12:45 am

Version 7
Made a small change to the position of ships & targets.
Any other requests to graphics?

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by **pamoa** on Fri Apr 13, 2012 3:44 am

seas cannot attack ships
and ships can only attack opposite sea target

how can you wipe your opponent from a ship your not in?

Iwould suggest that seas can attack ships

by **koontz1973** on Fri Apr 13, 2012 4:02 am

pamoa wrote:how can you wipe your opponent from a ship your not in?

Sea cells bombard adjacent ship cells.

by **ManBungalow** on Fri Apr 13, 2012 6:23 am

"Receive +1 troop for every 5 sea cells held on your side of the map".

Is there a way of programming this into the XML ?
Even if there is, I would imagine it to be much simpler if the bonus was changed to "Receive +1 troop for every 5 sea cells".
Or it could be even simpler if the whole bonus was given by the region count bonus; "Receive +1 troop for every 5 regions".

But whatever, it's your map, and - assuming Victor_S is doing the XML - I'm sure he knows what's possible with the XML, and also what size XML file is reasonable given the gameplay.

Actually, scrap that. So long as the other player can't actually conquer your ship regions, it should be possible with the current XML.

by **koontz1973** on Fri Apr 13, 2012 6:32 am

That is an easy thing in the xml. You need to set up the sea cells as a set of continents and the ship cells as well. Then you just combine the two in a further continent for the bonus.

Go and look at my Rorkes Drift xml to see how to do it. A tad long winded but easy to do when you work it out.

by **lostatlimbo** on Thu Apr 19, 2012 4:35 am

Any other comments or concerns?

by **Victor Sullivan** on Thu May 03, 2012 8:02 pm

I guess not... :-k

-Sully

by **ManBungalow** on Mon May 14, 2012 2:18 pm

The texture of the wood in the background isn't too pleasant, but you might be able to get away with it.

Move this to final forge and we'll see how it plays ?

by **lostatlimbo** on Thu May 24, 2012 1:07 am

ManBungalow wrote:The texture of the wood in the background isn't too pleasant, but you might be able to get away with it.

I can tone that down a bit.

ManBungalow wrote:Move this to final forge and we'll see how it plays ?

Sounds like a good idea to me!

by **lostatlimbo** on Mon Jun 04, 2012 2:21 am

A couple key gameplay changes for discussion:

#1 does to things - it makes it more difficult to gang up troops on first turn and take an opponent's ship (which would be unlikely, but not impossible). Second, it adds some intricacy to the assault strategies and a reason to have more than just one or two targets on each side.

#2 makes the impact of a "Hit" more like the game. That cell is out of play once its hit. If ship cells can assault adjacent cells it will drag games on when you can just take back the neutral 1 each time. It really isn't needed, since the bonus only requires one cell of the ship. This makes it more realistic without really changing strategy.

by **lostatlimbo** on Thu Jun 07, 2012 11:34 pm

No thoughts or opinions on this proposal??

by **nolefan5311** on Fri Jun 08, 2012 4:54 am

How do I get to the sea cells? Are some of the sea cells starting positions as well? Do I need to go through the targets? And for this to be like the game, shouldn't the targets be able to attack ship cells on the OTHER side of the map (ship cells one way attack targets on their side of the map, which can bombard all ship cells on opposite side of map). I think the only attack option across the map should be bombard, just like in the game. I take control of the target on my side of the map, and bombard ship cells on the other side (which then can't be taken back, like your latest suggestion suggest). Also, if you plan on having any sort of decay or killer neutral on the targets, that needs to be mentioned in the legend.

Regardless, this is pretty close to the stamp, so I will go ahead and sticky it.

by **koontz1973** on Fri Jun 08, 2012 11:44 am

An idea that I just though of is to have the ships attack each other in a sequence, alternating the sides of the board. A-B-C-D-E and so on. Still have the targets and other elements but I can see this becoming stalemated if games go on too long.