Hi Allan, It is a good concept/idea, but no promises from me. I have kind of figured out how I am going to write the game, and I like challenges. One way of making a game extremely challenging is by not providing backup. In short you are on your own, no backup, no resupplies, and that is all you have to complete the mission. Perhaps in some of the later missions I will include some backup ships, but as of missions 1 through 3 which I am working on now there are none. Smile.
Allan Thompson wrote: > Hi Guys, > I don't know if anyone else had played this game, but I had played a space > sim called descent: freespace. > You played a spacefighter pilot assigned with a carrier, and you had to > defend against an incoming alien race. Each mission gave a briefing, and you > then choose ship to take, which ranged from bombers, fighters, and others, > and you also choose weapon loadout for each mission had diffrent parameters > for success. As the player, you had a list of menu options which consisted > of running one or more squadrons under your command. > the options consisted of things like: attack who you are targeted on, attack > at will, attack weakest ship, attack ship attacvking you, retreat, and some > others. > The point I was getting to was the resupply ship. In the middle of a > mission, you could request for resupply. This was always an interesting > time. You generally wanted to call it between waves of enemies, during a > lull, and sometimes you just needed to resupply to get to the next part of > the same mission. It would take a certain amount of time to get to you, > depending on how far away from base or the carrier you were, and when it > showed up, the player had to come to a full stop and let the resupply > attach and transfer fuel and weapons and even fix some minor damage. > Sometimes this ship would get destroyed in combat if you got attacked > unexpectedly and a new resupply ship usually wasn't available after that > event. > I guess the point I am trying to say is that a resupply ship in the middle > of a mission wouldn't be to hard to imagine, especially in an example like > this: > You are defending an important corridor of space, when you detect the > oncoming advance of an enemy fleet. You call for back up, and offensive > ships are coming, but all you got is a starbase and a supply ship to keep > you supplied until cavalry comes. > To resupply, you might have to come to a full stop and tractor the resupply > ship, and start transporting goods over. One might have to drop shields as > well to do this. > Once resupplied, the battle could continue, that is, if the player managed > to create a lull and resupply before the next wave of the enemy. > How does this sound? > _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
