Good idea with all the "dead horse issue" posts Kryo. Although I am in favor of the idea, as you said, the "man" said NO! But since this topic seems to be a severe dead horse, as opposed to a less severe dead horse, why even post it? Everyone at Stardock has made their position clear on this, whereas the multiplayer issue at least seems to have a little life left in it if I read the post correctly.

I've been reading the posts and get it, the man said no carriers/bombardment. What I propose for GC3 whould be (if posible) two new techs. Or rather an advancement of two techs already in the game, ie. drones and point defence. Make them into pods for ships. Two drones per pod 20-30 space,and the pd could be 15 space. I don't know if the mighty overlords(devs) of the GC universe have thought of this yet or not. If not free idea ues it,if you did just ignore this post.

Yes, I know it's a sneeky way to get a carrier. I did say it was for GC3. hehe

ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY DEVS!!!

They're not gods, after all.

It's blasphemy I tell you!! How can you say such a thing about the mighty devs?

 

They're not gods, after all.

In this universe they are.   

Admit it, it's nice to have a thread you can just be silly in.

I said "need", as in "no more irritating forum spam of 8 threads on the same topic". I didn't say I wasn't going to argue the points

... Maybe dead horses could somehow be implemented in GalCiv III, my idea would be to have maybe a squadron of 20 dead horses per carrier or something like that.

Ok, now I'll stop being silly.

(no offence to the carrier-crazy people out there)

A. Orbital Bombardment is done by non-transport warships.

B. Ships CAN NOT bombard a planet with defending ships in orbit. That is, like transports, ships must attack and defeat defending ships first.

C. The amount of damage done by bombardment is determined by the amount of damage points the ship/fleet is capable of. That is, a ship with more weapons, OR a ship with more advanced weapons does more damage when bombarding. Another example being that a fleet armed with lasers and stingers would do a TINY fraction of the damage done by a ship with phasors and photon torpedos.

D. Bombardment damage is incremental. Meaning it is dealt out over a period of turns, the amount of damage per turn being decided by "item C." above.

E. Bombardment damage is equated to Population, Planetary Improvements, and Planet Quality.

F. Bombardment damage affects Planetary Improvements more than Population, and Population more than Planet Quality. That is, once Bombardment damage reaches a certain point, X number of improvements are destroyed, Y amount of population is killed, and Planet Quality drops Z amount. It takes more damage to kill a certain amount of people than it does to destroy improvements, and even more damage to drop a planet's quality.

G. You cannot bombard a planet with any given ship/fleet more than once per turn.

H. You can determine what percentage of your ship/fleet's power is used in the bombardment via a slider. For example, you can bombard with 25%, 50%, 75%, or 100% of total power.



Alternatively you could bolster a planet's bombardment defenses with improvements, like is done with a planet's invasion defenses now. For example at some point you could develop planetary shields that could absorb a certain amount of bombardment damage each turn, or perhaps a certain amount of damage before colapsing and being destroyed, this could even take several turns.

Look. As said, it's the ability of the AI, not just you, to use it. That's why Terror Stars were ditched.

I doubt the Devs. will even read this, but:
What I'd love to see is a module that would let fleets use the life support of whatever unit had the module. call it a "fleet train". It would allow carriers _in effect_, but not in a way that I think would be complex to create AI for. Granted, I know nothing about AI...

They're not gods, after all.It's blasphemy I tell you!! How can you say such a thing about the mighty devs?

I'm allowed to say that because I used to be a dev for typesetting software (a thankless task). heh.

While I agree this is a dead horse, and the word from Brad 'the man' Frogboy is no-way-

I was just curious on why there is a carrier in the default gfx/model folder- If ya don't belive me, its there in this location- I lie not

C:\Program Files\Stardock\TotalGaming\GalCiv2\Gfx\Models

and look for the S0_carrier files. They'll be three of them. You can even get it into the game. Thou it looks like a half finished model...

Personally i WANT to go on genocide runs, I LIKE THEM.

Simply put, Brad doesn't.