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Sundered Weimeriners
Joined: March 22, 2006
Posts: 2815
From: Philly
|  Posted: 2010-06-12 18:57
So a thought occured to me today. Currently the UGTO own all but a very few planets in Sag, and the ICC and K'Luth are being swarmed at the gates it's so bad...
I was wondering how difficult it would be for the server to automatically ally two factions against one in the event that the one faction either had a vast numerical superiority (IE: 5-1+) over the other two factions or had a majority planetary hold over the given MV server (IE: 97% or some such)?
It's just a curiosity I had a minute ago, and I thought it warrented a second or two of thought.
/Given the "preferences" of the development team, I don't give much thought to be warrented at all.
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Marshal
Galactic Navy
Joined: March 23, 2003
Posts: 11183
From: Bristol, England
| Posted: 2010-06-13 13:38
An interesting concept, but it wouldn't be good practice to force people to ally with another faction. Plus there's the fact that technically, according to lore, either human race would never ally with the K'luth.
We could, however, add the planetary control % to the math that guides how many AI are spawned perhaps.
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Kenny_Naboo
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Joined: January 11, 2010
Posts: 3823
From: LobsterTown
| Posted: 2010-06-14 08:48
Alliances are already unofficially n automatically struck by the 2 minority factions most of the time.
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Starcommander
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Joined: December 14, 2005
Posts: 579
From: In your base, stealing your cookies
| Posted: 2010-06-15 17:28
The % to the AI spawn would be nice to have, or have it triggered to how many systems a faction owns. So at 1 system its like 3 dreads 4 cruisers and 5 dessys for combat AI. At 2 systems it cuts down in half (round down), at 3 systems you have 1 cruiser 2 dessys for your factional combat AI. Any more systems and it just stays the same so the min would be 1 cruiser 2 dessy. This should be overridden by the player count number, which seems to be a bit broken. At 6 players we had hardly any AI helping us against a Kluth invasion. Maybe it should be based on how many enemy's are logged on rather then by how many of you are logged on.
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SpaceAdmiral
Grand Admiral
Joined: May 05, 2010
Posts: 1005
| Posted: 2010-06-19 01:16
It would be unrealistic *its that word again!* for a faction to have less ships as they have more systems *hence more resources*. However i believe for the sake of gameplay this little bit of realism can be thrown out the window.
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Joined: March 22, 2006
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From: Philly
| Posted: 2010-06-21 19:52
I would think of it more as a "Calling all cars!" to bring in the extra AI from the outer reaches to defend the last strongholds.
More AI is always entertaining, and sometimes beneficial. Downside is the lag, more AI and the script to detect when to spawn them could make an appreciable difference in the CPU usage.
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