http://www.spaceempires.net/forum-c13.html Latest 25 posts on the SpaceEmpires.net forums. en-us admin@spaceempires.net admin@spaceempires.net Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:40:01 GMT http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-69272.html#69272 http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-69272.html#69272 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:25:31 GMT http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-69262.html#69262 http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-69262.html#69262 Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:46:04 GMT http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-69217.html#69217 http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-69217.html#69217 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 14:47:24 GMT http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-69210.html#69210 http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-69210.html#69210
Can I create a new corp? Or I only can join to the another corporation? And is there anybody who is still playing?
Please answer as soon, as you can!]]> Sat, 21 Apr 2012 12:29:58 GMT http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-69206.html#69206 http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-69206.html#69206 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:56:33 GMT http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-68858.html#68858 http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-68858.html#68858 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:12:59 GMT http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-67658.html#67658 http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-67658.html#67658
However, this presents a new problem. In SJ's system, planet "ownership" doesn't exist anymore. So how do you define which players are Military and which Aren't? One idea is to only allow non-military Players to control Colony Ships (but not Population). The huge Influence gained from Colony Creation should keep Military players from having lots of Control over individual planets.

So, in a Nutshell, that's my idea. Military players have exclusive rights to Fleet retention and it's inherent combat bonuses, while System Lords have exclusive rights to Colony Ships and the large Influence payouts from Colony Creation events.

Thoughts?]]> Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:03:12 GMT http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-67303.html#67303 http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-67303.html#67303
Say a planet has 10 population, and 10 fighters.

If you have 50% influence, would you be able to take 5 population, and have 0 influence left?
If you take 5 fighters do you have 0 influence left?

If there are 10 population, and 0 fighters, you shouldn't gain 100% influence for dropping 1 fighter.

How much is population worth relative to the units and stuff?



If population were directly worth control, while units were worth influence?
Then if you had 50% of the control you'd be able to take 5M pop, and lose all income temporarily.
Your influence due to units and fleets would remain, and you'd slowly regain control, eventually enough to take another 1M pop.
You'd sorta be trading your potential income for population.

Taking all your units would drop influence to zero, causing control to decay over time, but you could take your population at the same time for a full sell-out. If your influence was stable (not growing or waning), you'd get the same % of both people and units.

Dropping population would give you control and income, but not allow you to buy off all the units since you'd have no influence yet.

Might have to be a mechanic to limit sudden population drops from stealing control just long enough to buy a SY queue or something, then leaving. Perhaps control can only be added 1M or 5% worth per turn, so if you dump 20M people on a planet, it takes 20 turns to consolidate your new control percentage.

Thoughts?

I think it's more logical for Population changes to affect Influence while Military Units (fighters/troops) affect Control, not the other way around. Your Control, after all, is based on your Influence (i.e. how the Population views you). So if you take away the Population you Control, wouldn't it make sense that the individuals that go with you are the ones you have Influence over (i.e. the ones that think so highly of you they are willing to uproot themselves at your request)?

Then again, later discussion has Population taken out of Player control, and thus out of the Influence calculations entirely. :P]]> Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:10:50 GMT http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-66834.html#66834 http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-66834.html#66834 Sun, 18 Sep 2011 09:05:40 GMT http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-66787.html#66787 http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-66787.html#66787 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 06:58:53 GMT http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-66502.html#66502 http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-66502.html#66502 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:35:30 GMT http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-66497.html#66497 http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-66497.html#66497 Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:51:00 GMT http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-65809.html#65809 http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-65809.html#65809 Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:42:59 GMT http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-65805.html#65805 http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-65805.html#65805 Mon, 23 May 2011 17:13:58 GMT http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-65287.html#65287 http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-65287.html#65287 Thu, 12 May 2011 16:07:13 GMT http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-65150.html#65150 http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-65150.html#65150 I never got to use most of my fleet, and only managed one tiny battle. :(

Though, on the upside, I did trawl around for loans in the first half of my time through PBC4. :P]]> Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:44:20 GMT http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-64816.html#64816 http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-64816.html#64816
At this rate, I may have dropped out of every other PBW game and moved somewhere with shite internet before the game gets started. but that won't be the end of the world. sorry for the impatience :S]]> Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:02:59 GMT http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-64753.html#64753 http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-64753.html#64753 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:11:58 GMT http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-64712.html#64712 http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-64712.html#64712 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:34:12 GMT http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-64706.html#64706 http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-64706.html#64706 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:52:17 GMT http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-64699.html#64699 http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-64699.html#64699 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:54:39 GMT http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-64697.html#64697 http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-64697.html#64697 Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:34:00 GMT http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-64385.html#64385 http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-64385.html#64385 The combat benefits should help keep ships and units on the front lines rather than camping over core worlds.

on the other hand I can defenately see an eventual 'crossing the rubicon' effect after a while where a player decides to march their veterin fleets on the core worlds in the hope of taking them over :D]]> Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:24:45 GMT http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-64379.html#64379 http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-64379.html#64379 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:53:00 GMT http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-64314.html#64314 http://www.spaceempires.net/ftopicp-64314.html#64314