Game lay out

Thennian · Post by **Thennian** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:20 pm

i have a beef with all the locations in planet galaxy's. Especially weapon shops in planet galaxys is a bad idea, it means less turns used arming.

at a 1.5 game speed it is alot easier to bust level 70's when you dont have to clear 7 or 8 sectors deep of mines, with all these locations it will be easy to take out planets cuz of the lack of being able to mine paths properly.

JettJackson · Post by **JettJackson** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:47 pm

i fully agree with this, the idea of all the locs in the planet gal is kinda foolish, i mean i could understand a pub and a bank but beyond that its kind of a waste of locs

Post by **Trigek** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:24 pm

This is how it works with the game design, one extreme to another. Last game planet gals were a bit big and had too many planets and no locs, so now they go for small gals with lots of locs. The game after this they will go back to big gals with no locs and 20 planets, seeminigly forgetting last game.

Freon22 · Post by **Freon22** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 9:07 pm

My worry about this layout is that the CA to easy to get to. I think before long racial galaxies will have more and more mines.

What will happen is the large alliances will move to their planet galaxies and that will leave only the small alliances and the solo players to try and keep down the mining of the racial galaxies.

I guess time will tell.

Post by **OmegaRenegade** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 2:45 am

How many 70's were busted last game? I really wasnt paying much attention thru most of the game...

I dont remember alot though... and before I left it was a common thing. This map may be pushing things a bit to the extreme, but I bet the game in general will see more action... mine fields wont be as effective, so we'll be seeing more counter ops and such I think... and maybe a focus on strategy more so... I dunno I think it'll be interesting to see how this pans out.

acidtrip · Post by **acidtrip** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 3:16 am

Mine fields are already effective this game. Parts of the Human galaxy isn't a friendly place I hear.

Game map size and racial, trade galaxies layout I really do like. The single CA worries me because it could be controled by a single stong alliance but my money is on Orca pitching a tent there later on this game.

Planet galaxies are to small and filled with locations and all but one have a uno really close. No single one is defendable. I bet there won't be many lvl 70 rocks and most people will be arming from fed so overall I believe there will be a little less action. Last game if I wanted to find some SF they were parked with in 20 sectors of me. This time we will all be in fed.

Crusher · Post by **Crusher** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 3:33 am

What i think of this game. Why oh why everytime it seemt hey are small planets galaxy. you allway had lot of sector( this game weapon shop) in them. Last time i saw those small planets galaxy most alliances stop building planets except for 2.

I feel i repeat myself, but we say we want more players in smr. One ca in the game i can see a newbie trying 2 or 3 time to get scouts or mines . After getting kill each time do you think he will stay in the game.

Same for small racial galaxy. This game is only a good setup for players that want to hunt and fed. Those will be happy.

Ardbeg · Post by **Ardbeg** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 3:53 am

while I definitely encourage trying new things, a single CA is just plain stupid. What were you thinking?! Even if it does not get locked down by a dominant alliance, the approaches will continually be (at least) single-mined all to hell to make access difficult. The only players able to effectively get forces are large alliances able to dedicate HBC's to jumping into Ara. On top of that, even if a small player can get to the CA alive, there will be veteran hunters just waiting to pick them off there!!

Add to all this a game layout that appears to be promoting more fed parking than usual as well as racial galaxy mining (a curse we have not seen in a while) and we are looking at a game that is about as unfriendly to newbies as you could possibly make it.

Good job [/end sarcasm]

JettJackson · Post by **JettJackson** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 4:50 am

i got an idea, next time the game is made those that make it look at threads like this to see what not to do

Post by **Prince Valiant** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 5:35 pm

how about next time i ask what you all want you the the game should look like in a thread and u guys dont respond then dont complain i asked a good 3 weeks before the game what u guys wanted and i got little to no response