On 2012-05-09 23:27, Kenny_Naboo[+R] wrote:

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On 2012-05-09 19:40, Enterprise wrote: It would be pretty easy to make planets important, actually. The problem is that players don't really want them to be important, because then they actually have to worry about losing one. They actually have to care to have that planet on their side. They would actually have to work to make sure their faction had the resources to spawn ships, and would use the amount of ships their faction could support wisely. But its more fun and entertaining to just spawn anything and throw it at the enemy. Its because of this I have the realization that the only reason players prefer the MV is because its a.) easier to spawn the ships they want and b.) the ships they want are much more powerful. If players really, really wanted important planets, they'd have them. History has shown otherwise.

So what do you think the effect would be like if all those resources sub-types were reintroduced as key elements in construction and shipbuilding?

Everytime you wanted to spawn a new ship (non gate-spawnable), you'd have to take into account the SY planet's res. Everytime one of your garaged ships got destroyed, respawning them would entail the same costs.

I think that combat would be a bit more scarce, since people might be afraid to lose their ships for fear of not being able to respawn. But the other activities like mining, building, transporting may rise in support of the economy needed to keep the war effort running.

There are many space MMOs (in fact, most) that are like that. Building and trading are in the forefront as much as combat.


The question is, what is the Dev team's vision for the game?

On 2012-05-09 23:50, Talien wrote:
I'd totally be down with having mining, trading, and building more important because of resource types, but when you consider not every planet will have every resource type it starts to turn into a nightmare of a mess. If there's only 1 or 2 planets in a system that has a needed resource type you'd have to decide whether you want to only put a few mines/factories on it and add a lot of defenses, or load it up with mining structures and risk having to recapture it constantly.

On 2012-05-10 00:27, Enterprise wrote:

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On 2012-05-09 23:27, Kenny_Naboo[+R] wrote: So what do you think the effect would be like if all those resources sub-types were reintroduced as key elements in construction and shipbuilding? I think that combat would be a bit more scarce, since people might be afraid to lose their ships for fear of not being able to respawn. But the other activities like mining, building, transporting may rise in support of the economy needed to keep the war effort running.

If it were me? I'd cut the amount of planets in the MV by half.

Different types of planets would make different types of resources. Like older days, you would need to have to capture several planets to get the resources you need. If the resource system were tweaked, you could have mines be the structures the generate resources, but factories would multiply the outright amount of resources the planet has, instead of the mining output. So you could have mining planets, that trade to factory planets, who trade to Shipyard planets. Barren -> Ice, Arid, Desert, Ocean -> Terran. The resource cap on planets now already lends to that mindset.

I'd make every ship spawn cost resources. Ships would become blueprints, and they would need to be constructed every time. Docking becomes decommisioning. I'd limit Shipyards to Terrans only. I'd make Depots available only on factory worlds. Interdictor bases would take an incredible amount of resources to build and maintain.

I could go on and on, but I doubt other people like such a game.