Galactic Overlord II Game Thread

[Kassiopeia]

Sorry Kass, don't hold it against me, it is only a game.

Of course I don't. It's not your fault my luck failed me. Enjoy your bases.

I love them builder noobs. They are so predictable. Ripe for taking.

Yeah. So where are those massive fleets of yours ready to massacre those builder noobs? Hmm?

[Spaced Cowboy]

Cool orders later tonight.

[GeoModder]

Originally posted by Ljube-ljcvetko
I love them builder noobs. They are so predictable. Ripe for taking.

Well, you'll never know now what could have been, you're kinda extinguished

[Garth Vader]

This looks interesting, too bad I didn't get in for this game.

I have a few ideas for the combat which I hope includes some luck, strategy and fairness.

Hopefully this isn't too hard to understand I am at work right now so I didn't have time to make it too pretty.

Garth's combat suggestion

1 round per ship weapon, each round split into a 3 part OOB. At the end of a round if your fleet has taken enough damage to lose a ship, they will be removed in the order you specify.


So a player would have to specify the OOB, and also a ship order. Plus the formation and range.


So to use the Kass-SC battle as an example with the ranges and formation that they used.

Say if they both used a LFT OOB , I will assume Kass picked his ship order as LFTLFT the rounds would go as follows

Round 1

SC Kass
5L 2L =3*2(range) 6 hits to kass
0F 2F =2 hits to SC
0T 0T =2 hits to SC

No ships lost,

Round 2

Ships left 5(2) 6(4), the number in brackets are HP's remaining on the lead ship.

SC Kass
5L 2L =3*2(range) 6 hits to kass
0F 2F =2 hits to SC
0T 0T =2 hits to SC

SC loses 1 ship, Kass loses 1 ship(A Laser as specified in orders)

Round 3

Ships left 4(4) 5(8)

SC Kass
4L 1L = 3*2(range) 6 hits to kass
0F 2F =2 hits to SC
0T 0T =2 hits to SC

SC loses 1 ship

Round 4

Ships left 3 5(2)

SC has no weapons left so Kass gets 2 free rounds

SC Kass
0L 1L = 1*2(range) 2 hits
0F 2F = 2 hits
0T 2T = 2 hits

1 ship lost

Round 5 the same, 1 ship lost

Final totals

SC has 1 ship left, kass has 5 (one with 2HP left)

If you tweak the OOB a bit you can get interesting results, I'll just show round 1 to demonstrate.

If SC goes LFT and kass goes FTL.

SC kass

5L 2F -> 3*2(range)*2(favored) = 12 hits to kass
0F 2T -> 2*0.5(favored) = 1 hit to SC
0T 2L -> 2*0.5(favored)*2(range) = 2 hits to SC

So kass loses a ship for the next round and SC only takes half damage to one.

But if SC went LFT and Kass went TLF

5L 2T -> 3*2(range)*0.5(favored) = 3 hits to kass
0F 2L -> 2*2(range)*2(favored) = 8 hits to SC
0T 2F -> 2*2(favored) = 4 hits to SC

So SC loses 2 ships first round and Kass takes only 3 damage.


So with a slight change in OOB a weaker fleet can inflict quality damage, but not necessarily wipe out a much larger fleet.

Plus you get a trade off in building more smaller ships, thus getting a better first round, or less bigger ships, getting a chance to have free rounds after the smaller ships have used all their weapons.

I don't think it's too complicated, I was able to calculate the results pretty quickly, although I would consider making a spreadsheet or program to do it faster and more accurately.

[:) Smiley]

If synchronized combat is to be taken that literally, however, it makes little sense that in an evenly matched round, where one fleet has 200 lasers and the other 200, that no damage at all is done.

[:) Smiley]

bump. when is it gonna be processed?

[joncha]

Are we still waiting on anyone's orders?

[Jamski]

We need orders from Skanky

-Jam

[:) Smiley]

Let's see.
Smiley -sent
Chaunk -sent
Spaced- should be sent
Gamecube- no idea. Society hasn't been updated either.
Joncha- sent
Doc- should be sent, he's online now anyway
GT- sent
Geomodder- sent
Jam- sent

[Gamecube64]

I posted sent already
And Society is on weekend scedule, I'm missing 2 orders.

[Spaced Cowboy]

sorry just got the chance to.... sent

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Hmm, do I feel like taking advantage of the "last in, first out" rule to send in new orders? Eh, Jam's probably got a shield up anyway.

[Skanky Burns]

Even I need to go to work sometimes. Update some time within the next few hours.

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It's not even close to the end of the month, why is accounting so busy now?

[Skanky Burns]

I'm not an accountant just yet. My work doesn't involve using a computer, alas, so I can't even post from there. We're on weekend schedule right now, so relax.