A lot of what goes on in the game follows rules which imply values which may be changed during the game for balancing reasons, or simply to fix a mistake. In this post: Internationalisation Resource types Natural resources Types of weaponry and defences Production and capability types Technologies Fleet strategies Defence strategies Attack strategies Relative [...]
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Milestone 2 – Space combat
The last post gave a brief overview of the battle system as a whole. This post will concentrate on some important aspects of space combat which were not fully explained by the overview, namely target selection, weapons firing and interception. These three parts of the space combat resolution computation are heavily dependent on the strategies [...]
Milestone 2 – Battle system
While I had considered posting about fleet strategies and tactics, I thought it would be more appropriate to start from the beginning – the battle system itself. There are two major computations performed by the battle system. First, space combat is computed. Once this part is over, and provided there are still attacking ships in [...]
Milestone 2 – Weapons and defences
I am currently working on designing the M2 database. While quite a lot of the basic structure stays, there are many changes, especially as far as fleets and battles are concerned. In order to make sure that the fleet-related information is complete, the most crucial component is the battle system. It affects a few things [...]