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Stardock (wardell@ibm.net@oeonline.com) wrote:
: * Ghost Ships totally eliminated
 
	Have I heard this before ?-)

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Poke Snellman

In <DEx9D...@oeonline.oeonline.com>, wardell@ibm.net@oeonline.com  (Stardock) writes:
>For those of you running into anamolies with GalCiv v1.07, we have
>just released (9/14/95) GalCiv v1.07a which has the following changes:
>
>* Ghost Ships totally eliminated

I thought the Ghost Ships were there on purpose!!!

>* Duplicate planet names eliminated

Haven't run into this, yet.

>* Combat Transports now REAAALLLY tough

Why? Explain this to me (including history of the evolution of their "toughness").

In article <DEzry...@midway.uchicago.edu>,
	ha...@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Bill) writes:
>In article <43d7tb$n...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>,
>Stardock95 <stard...@aol.com> wrote:
>>Over the months, users complained that it was not realistic that a ship
>>that carried 500,000 troops would not be very well defended.
>>So with v1.07a of GalCiv, we 
>>changed it so that transports in space are quite tough.
>>
>>Brad
>
>Actually, a ship whose purpose is to transport troops, rather than to do
>battle in space, really ought not to be that tough.  What it ought to be
>is very heavily escorted.  This is in fact a fair assessment of how naval
>transport of ground troops has been handled since before 1000 BC.
>
 ... qoute text cut off.
>
>- Bill

I agree with you on this, Bill.
But since I've been playing GalCiv I know how hard it is to escort your
Transporters. The enemy ships sneaks up on you much too easy.
I'm playing with the v1.03 and I don't know how strong they have made the
new Combat Transporters, but my suggestion is to make the Transporters just
a little bit stronger than they were in v1.03 but too give them some kind
of radar device to spot the enemies long before they hit you. In that way
you can prepare your escort to defend the Transporter.

Hmm... where do one send suggestions on GalCiv development to Stardock?

Hung Huynh
[Team OS/2]

d95...@sunna.dtek.chalmers.se (Hung Huynh,1000) wrote:



>I agree with you on this, Bill.
>But since I've been playing GalCiv I know how hard it is to escort your
>Transporters. The enemy ships sneaks up on you much too easy.
>I'm playing with the v1.03 and I don't know how strong they have made the
>new Combat Transporters, but my suggestion is to make the Transporters just
>a little bit stronger than they were in v1.03 but too give them some kind
>of radar device to spot the enemies long before they hit you. In that way
>you can prepare your escort to defend the Transporter.

I think realism is served by keeping it the way it is. I presume that
attacks against a space ship occur from incredible distances. A
preindustrial military model is completely inappropriate - as if an
intercepting fighter in our day and age would physically grapple a
C-130!

In fact, in view of the situation, the overall strategy of  "clearing
the skies" before moving transports in is probably a good one.

In <43d3v9$c...@uuneo.neosoft.com>, bi...@neosoft.com writes:
>In <DEx9D...@oeonline.oeonline.com>, wardell@ibm.net@oeonline.com  (Stardock) writes:
>>* Duplicate planet names eliminated
>
>Haven't run into this, yet.

   If you capture an enemy system with more than 1 colonized planet, all of them
will have the same name as the system. I ran into once where an alien had one
named the same as me.


Jerry
jgu...@epix.net
jgu...@genesis.nred.ma.us