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Topic: Different Scoring Idea for Melee (Read 5153 times)
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Captain Smith
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Just a different scoring idea for melee that I came up with that might be good as an option for post 1.0 UQM. It was pretty fun for me anyway and might be for others. This would probably work best only against the computer, but could be applied in a way to two player too I'm sure.
Endurance melee - it could be turned into an arcade game almost. The basic idea is instead of melee group against melee group and game over when one side ends, keep going until the player loses all of their ships. I played a couple of games like this and it was pretty fun.
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1) It works like regular melee except the computer ships keep coming until you lose all of your ships. To simulate this I kept playing consecutive games against the melee set I had set up for the computer.
2) If you finish out against the computer melee ships, you lose all the ships you've lost (the ones with X's through them) and then replay the full compliment of computer ships with what you had left. To simulate this I deleted the ships I lost between games through the edit function and then continued with a new game under the same terms.
3) For the ship you finish out with, you get the crew back you lost for the next round. Of course, I couldn't do too much about that in playing regular melee, but it seems like a good rule.
4) Scoring possibility: Total point value of all the ships you destroy. Alternatively to make the ships you start out with be a factor, the score can be some ratio of the ships you destroy versus what you start out with. Of course you could play with giving bonuses for beating high point ships with low point ones, round bonuses, etc, etc, whatever you wanted to do.
5) If it were implemented in code, you could forget the computer melee set too and just randomly send all ships against the player.
In playing this I saw a lot of good possibilities. A chance to prove your worth with some ships you might not normally use, and get to practice on them. Some strategy there too in ship selection, since you'd have to think to the future, possibly.
So what do people think?
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Michael Martin
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You expect it to be done when it ISN'T done?  That hurts my poor little brain.
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Bartholomew
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Don't worry. It hurts my big brain.
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Megagun
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It's a nice idea, Captain Smith.. 
Going to try it out, soon..
Perhaps even make Advanced Melee options, and have "presets" for them, too?
Some Melee options (switches, either on or off):
*Full Fleets (all ships, so you don't have to make a selection)
*Endurance Mode (Captain Smith's basic idea concept)
*Random Melee (you are only able to select a random ship)
*Random Ships (you get a random fleet at the start of a game)
*RU Mode (you get a certain ammount of RU (cash) to spend on ships, You can't exceed this. You get a certain ammount of RU when you win a game (depends on the RU spent by your opponent) and are able to buy stuff with that for the next round (when in Round Mode))
*Round Mode (simple "best of" mechanism. Useful in combination with "RU Mode")
*Time Mode (adds a timer. When it reaches zero, the game's over and the person with the most Points left wins)
*Vindicator Mode (both teams get one Vindicator (the precursor flagship) and get to fit it at the start of a game. They get max RU when "RU Mode" is off, so this would be good in combination with "RU Mode")
*Sa-Matra Mode (basically a battle against the Sa-Matra.. Player vs Comp only)
And some variables which you should be able to alter:
*Number of asteroids
*Number of planets
*Planet's gravity
*Field Size (Melee gamefield size, yes.)
*Speed (for "frenzy" stuff.. )
*Number of ships (useful for "Random Ships" Melee option)
*Number of rounds
*Timer number (sets the timer for "Time Mode")
*Handicap 1 (default: 0. Changes Handicap for player 1)
*Handicap 2 (default: 0. Changes Handicap for player 2)
Back to "Presets".. Presets will just be a load and savable set of options. Imagine it like a list at the top of the Advanced Melee options screen. When you select something from it (like "Normal Melee"), it changes the settings of all the stuff I mentioned before.. When you change some of the settings after you've loaded a Preset, the Preset-list will change to "Custom".. Ofcourse, some settings will turn into "disabled" when you select certain modes... IE it wouldn't make any sense to have "Random Melee" in combination with "Vindicator Mode"...
Most of these settings (especially the variables, like number of asteroids) will be fairly easy to code (I think), and will suffice with commandline options in early betas. However, a settings screen would be nice in later versions of it.
(argh. I've typed too much.. poor fingers)
I'd be glad to hear other people's opinions/ideas about this.. Off to try the Endurance thing Captain Smith came up with.. ^^
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« Last Edit: September 27, 2004, 08:46:29 pm by Megagun »
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Captain Smith
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I just thought of a way to make the endurance melee concept work in two player. Let each player select their ships, then when one side is destroyed, each player gets to select ships with the same point value as what they destroyed on the other side. Game ends when one side runs out of points and ships.
An example: Player 1 takes a melee group of 228 pts, and Player 2 takes a melee group of 227 points. End of round, Player 2 wins. So player 2 gets 228 pts to allocate for the next round. Player 1, let's say destroys 190 pts of player 2's ships in his losing effort. He gets 190 pts in the next round to allocate for new ships. Game continues until one player runs out of ships, AND points to allocate for new ships.
This would probably work best only against the computer, but could be applied in a way to two player too I'm sure.
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Shiver
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I'd like to see souped up "boss" ships on the enemy side in these Arcade modes. Like a Super Mycon Podship that has a glowing aura around it that can shrug off 50% of the damage you do and regenerates energy a little faster.
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FalconMWC
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Well, I think the idea for a ship that is a bit better than normal is good. Like, if you were ever to get to ZEX by ship-to-ship combat, you could face a little bit longer laser or faster recharge, etc.
The mycon idea I don't like, though I do like the general idea.
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Shiver
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Wrong SC this is Star Control not StarCraft.
I've played both and can safely say that the above statement fails to make any sense.
Since I only spent about 30 seconds considering that idea, let me try and sell it better: I'm tired of wading through large numbers of easy enemy ships. I want to fight something can kill me a dozen times before I beat it. Ideally this would involve a supergenius AI instead of making ultra-powerful cheese ships, but that would be very hard to program. The idea I threw down does not sound all that difficult to implement in comparison.
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Captain Smith
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Not that difficult and an idea. Actually I've done it with Star Control 2 using a ship editor. Of course, some ships aren't well suited to be edited because they won't get harder unless some of their default functions are changed (like the Melnorme and its generation of the red fear balls), but a lot of them are interesting to mod and fight.
Like the last one I did was souping up the Ur-Quan so it fires the fusion cannon 4 times faster and consequently using 4 x less energy. Quite a different challenge than the stock version.
I'm tired of wading through large numbers of easy enemy ships. I want to fight something can kill me a dozen times before I beat it.
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