Moo Clone in the making

[vmxa1]

Epistax good job and I think both post are useful and those things are what permits replaying.

[Yolky]

hope that you are feeling better. email me with what tech you have and I will see where I can input some info or give you some critisim.

Davor

[Gilgamensch]

Originally posted by vmxa1

Very cruel to mention it again , anyway Dr listed it in the games he was drawing from. So I am not on the on the wrong thread this time (am I ).

It's just, when I read your reply, (at work) I actually wanted to go home and continue my game, so I thought let's hit YOU with my anger that I had to stay at work

And DrHacker, just PM or e-mail with what you have and I try to help you as best as I can. (if you don't know, click the links above the post of whome you want to contact saying PM/e-mail )

Hope to hear news from you soon

[vmxa1]

Cool, happy nanotwiller to you.

[Gilgamensch]

Happy what???????????

[drhacker]

Ok, I've emailed Yolky and sent a PM to Gilgamensch (You don't have any email link ?!), let's se what you say...

Epistax, you have some good points... Good things to have in mind when designing. Thanks. Noone else who want's to contribute?

In my game there is races, with individual strengths. Keep in mind though that this is a game I'm making on my spare time, as lone coder, so I'm trying to keep it small. Trying to reincorporate every feature of MOO as Ray K did I won't. I don't think I would manage that. But as to what parts are to be cut out I don't know...

Right now the ship design is complete, you can create new ship designs from the specs in the tech tree. So at least that feature of MOO is in.

Letting ships get experience is a pretty nice feature... Not to hard to implement. What do you think, what should you get experience from?
I had this idea that you can get experience from different fields, not just more and more from every battle you enter (although that should play a role too).
What about having several "experiences", like winning a battle, exploring a new system, making first contact... And a ship having been though all of those get higher experience that a ship that just has been sitting at the homeworld, defending it, but has seen many battles? Just a thought, what do you think?

[vmxa1]

Nanotwillers or however it is spelled is the best power source for a ship in Ascendancy. I was just tossing a term I thought you would be familar with as it is part of the game. Ok it is Nanotwirler, replaces the Van Creeg hypersplicer.

[Harry Seldon]

Maybe you could look at those different experiences and use them to mold the units. Say, you have a scout ship that gains experience from searching stars for new systems. It could gain experience that would eventually make it a "Research" class ship. Give it a bonus of say +10 research points. Or, say you have a ship that plays a mostly defensive role. As they spend more time gaining experience in this way, they could specialize as a "defence" class ship, giving it a bonus for a defensive type attribute. This wouldn't lock them in to this role in any way, just give them bonuses for performing certain tasks. Plus, the ships could still gain experience in other areas as the performed additional tasks and gain additional bonuses. It would make it more difficult to scrap an older ship just to upgrade to the next level beam weapon and help a nonresearch oriented race stay competitive while they tried to catch up.

[Yolky]

Drhacker I never got any email.

yolkyis@rogers.com

try again please or pm me and give me your email and will get in touch with you that way.

Davor

[Gilgamensch]

Yep, I remember now, just didn't expected it

So in other words, you hit me cold and dirty

[vmxa1]

Thats cool, I have played aa great deal of Ascendancy, I like all those TBS space games with tech trees. Even if it did have a lame AI.

[drhacker]

Gilgamensch, Yolky, you have mail! (I hope...)

[Ray K]

Originally posted by Harry Seldon
Has anyone even heard from RayK recently? I think his last post was months ago. I wouldn't be much help with programming unless you're writing it in pascal or basic. That's q or gw, not visual.

I put java Moo on hold in anticipation of MOO3, so it looks I'll probably start it back up soon. My free time has been eaten up lately with the Xmas purchase of Diablo2 and now the start of baseball season (see my site at www.astrosdaily.com if you're a fan).

Java Moo is just sitting on my PC with it's siren call... "Ray, Ray, I need more code"

Never fear. MOO is possibly my favorite PC game of all time and I am determined to resurrect it!

[vmxa1]

Good to hear and I loved Diablo1/2. I finished Nightmare, but never started Hell. In fact I have not done the Cow level in NIghtmare mode, only the normal one.

[Ray K]

Good to hear and I loved Diablo1/2. I finished Nightmare, but never started Hell. In fact I have not done the Cow level in NIghtmare mode, only the normal one.

Actually, it was the D2 expansion, Lord of Destruction, that I got for Xmas. Now I'm burned out on it! I don't know about you guys, but I have to rotate between strategy & action games.