Ages of Space Empires (Space Age Preview)

[narf poit chez BOOM]

That would be a very...interesting game. Rather like the chinese curse.

[scJazz]

One suggestion I have is to make the Age Technologies dependent on researching other techs. Similar to how it is done in M$ Age of Empires. So in order to advance to AI age you have to have X lvl nukes, Y ship construction, Z research or some such. Otherwise there is to great a temptation to just blast through the Age researches. In Age of Empires it was generally felt that a player who fully developed each age was able to hold on (barely) against one who raced 2 ages above.

[Urendi Maleldil]

Yep. that's exactly how Age research will work

[Atrocities]

- Ship Construction Rates (Orbital Space Yards should be more effective than ground-based ones)

I agree with this 100% and adopted this philosphy in STM some time ago however I discovered that HW's will always be more effiencent with their bonuses than non homeworlds.

As to making troops more important than glassing a planet I would love to know how to you intend to make the AI handle this.

[Fyron]

There are a number of AIs that are quite capable of conquering your planets.

[Urendi Maleldil]

I'll simply have them build more troops and troop transports I suppose. That will increase the chance that an invasion fleet will have troops on hand to capture a planet.

They could glass a planet using bombs, but they will need a heck of a lot of bombs to make a scratch on a major homeworld

[Atrocities]

Imperator Fyron said:
There are a number of AIs that are quite capable of conquering your planets.

This is true I am sure but what is the best method for doing so?

[Urendi Maleldil]

I just discovered that the Ages mod has an interesting technology bleed-over effect.

Since each Age tech level is required for many components, a player who hasn't reached a particular Age yet, fighting against someone who has, can capture a ship, analyze it, and automatically jump to that Age too.

I'm actually considering removing self destruct devices or making them diffcult to use to keep tech bleed-over part of the game.

What do you guys think?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I dunno, my first instinct was to go the opposite way - Make tech nearly impossible to capture.

After all, just because you can build a coal power station, doesn't mean you'd have a clue what to do if someone dropped a nuclear one on your lap.