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Post by Crimson on Sept 18, 2013 5:24:12 GMT -5
A way to manage a fleet of ships/ trading routes would be nice. May need to be another game completely /when another mode. Or could have net positive or negative cash flow effect. Also ships would be subject to complete loss at random events.
Port Royale 3, and tradewars 2002 are the inspiration of this idea.
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Post by fallen on Sept 18, 2013 10:15:33 GMT -5
Crimson - if you search the forum for Battlefleet, you'll see some discussions about a game that we'd love to produce in the future that allows you to control, manage, and fight with larger fleets of ships as the Quadrant's history progresses. Cory and I have also always loved 4X games and look forward to being able to work on such a game within the Star Traders universe, or other worlds!
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Post by mikelrysk on Sept 18, 2013 11:09:13 GMT -5
The idea to easily control trade routes made me think of an 'add to trade route' button. Let's you store the ports you've visited and by selecting the port in the list, which would only show the ones for the current map, you could plot a course. Don't know, but figured I blurt it in case someone else was thinking it too.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2013 12:28:01 GMT -5
Sounds like a space version of Risk.
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Post by mikelrysk on Oct 2, 2013 15:21:10 GMT -5
Sorry, my comment was for AoP.
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Post by fallen on Oct 2, 2013 18:35:02 GMT -5
Sorry, my comment was for AoP. Awesome idea for setting up a merchant's route. I have added #AOP-2158. We'll have to examine the save game format to see if its possible. |
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Post by johndramey on Oct 3, 2013 16:24:40 GMT -5
The idea to easily control trade routes made me think of an 'add to trade route' button. Let's you store the ports you've visited and by selecting the port in the list, which would only show the ones for the current map, you could plot a course. Don't know, but figured I blurt it in case someone else was thinking it too. That is actually a really good idea. Hopefully it is possible. Even something like an in-game journal where you can import a "trading port name (trade good) -> trading port name (trade good) -> etc" style log would be very nice for tjose of us that like to play the economy game. I never really botherex trading in ST but pretty much only play merchants in AoP. If there could be someway to have trade routes be displayed on your map and color coded? Now that would be an amazing tool. |
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