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Suggestion on Interdictor base Level & Funtion aplication |
Koda
Marshal
Fatal Squadron
Joined: August 29, 2002
Posts: 1384
|  Posted: 2005-07-03 20:37
Hi everybody,
Just came up with this Idea, and id like to know what you think. I do admit I havent gone to the trouble of researching what is already on the Table for Planetary Interdictor bases. So hopefully all of you out there in DS Land will like this Idea.
The Idea
Increasing Plantary interdictor function and seperating its funtion from that of the Space Born counterpart.
Level 1 Interdictor building
costs would be low, but the draw back is that the range is 3/4ths that of a normal interdictor but it has a Wider cone than that of higher level bases.
Level 2..
Medium cost, with range of 1/4 to 1/5 further stoping area, smaller cone of effect area.
level 3..
high cost probably similar to that of a Def base lvl 2.
Longest cone of effect but with a slimer cone.
(almost like a hand that reaches into space to grab ones ship)
I would be happy to further explain this idea. But since its the 3rd of July im very pressed for time at the moment and i needed to get this one out b4 i forgot it.
-Charz
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JRE
Grand Admiral
Joined: August 14, 2003
Posts: 570
| Posted: 2005-07-03 22:00
Leveling system looks good but not sure about the "cones" thing. Kinda seems to easy to get by it.
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Koda
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Fatal Squadron
Joined: August 29, 2002
Posts: 1384
| Posted: 2005-07-04 00:23
yeah i was thinking about that also. The reason why im leaning towards cones is the realisim of a Interdictor base haveing anykind of effect on the opposite side of a planet. The other reason for cones is F plans on makking DS 3d.
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Lonectzn
Fleet Admiral
Joined: January 06, 2005
Posts: 202
| Posted: 2005-07-04 02:05
DS is 3d!
I jumped over Bald Knob in cincin.
Easy as pie. J to a building on the top of grubbs, ship jumps direct to it and over Bald. Of course it hit grubbs on the way down... but that's not the point.
How much more 3d could you want? 
But really, on topic, you'd have to reduce upkeep lower than that to make it possible to cover a planet. And some way of seeing what the current coverage is.
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Binks
1st Rear Admiral
Joined: November 28, 2003
Posts: 469
| Posted: 2005-07-04 12:08
Actually the interdictor covering the entire planet does make sense, depending on how the jump system works. If it's another warp system, then my though is that the system would monitor how space is affected by known masses (planets/stars etc.) and a interdictor's gravity field would catch them off-guard, forcing the ship to drop out of "warp". I do like the level system though, and in reflection of being yanked out of "warp" why not make the enemy ship take some armor/shield/hull (if armor/shield is down) dmg, more per level...something like 10% armor from scout at lvl 1, and 50% at lvl 3...that'd stop people from just targetting planets and hitting j with no strategy...as for the cone, it doesn't really make sense to require more of a higher lvl building to defend the planet, instead it should be the other way around, lvl 1 a small, thin cone, lvl 2 a medium cone and lvl 3 the largest and widest cone...
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Koda
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Fatal Squadron
Joined: August 29, 2002
Posts: 1384
| Posted: 2005-07-04 18:53
@Binks, Yeah I was thinking about that. The conclusion I came to was that when People build planets the interdictor base, people only build 1 base for each planet.. (sometime when there is a close grouping only having 1 for the 2+)..
My line of reasoning is that when people are building a planet they will go through it figure out what is best for that planet type... not to mention we could make it to where its not but make it look like a Smile D instead of a cone.
I was originally thinking that people could use more buildings trading in protection in one area for further stoping power.
like this
But What im thinking now is that maybe haveing a system like this would be more enjoyable for everyone.
-Charz
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