Another Hyperspace Arty Thread!!! w00t!

posted on October 27th, 2010, 5:39 pm

A 5% chance of self-inflicted damage sounds quite reasonable. A race who will ram their ships into the enemy at the drop of a hat is not the kind to shy away from ignoring safety to squeeze a bit more power out of their weapons.

As for predictable; that type of game is far too boring to be worth playing. If you like predictable games, play stock A2.

posted on October 27th, 2010, 5:43 pm

predictability in general is good. you should be able to know the risks when u choose a strategy.

so a moving black hole that randomly destroys one of your ships every 5 minutes is crap, cos u cant change strategy to remove the risk.

but with hsa u can change strats and remove risk.

just like bug ramming, that sometimes fails, making the bug derelict. so if u dont want the risk, dont ram.

posted on October 27th, 2010, 5:46 pm

Some predictability can be good if it doesn't ruin random chance.

posted on October 27th, 2010, 6:16 pm

Some predictability can be good if it doesn't ruin random chance.

i prefer some random chance if it doesnt ruin predictability lol.

the random chance shouldnt happen until after u have decided on a strat. u should be able to switch strats to change the random chances.

in this case random chance on hsa is good as u can build something else.

but random metior/hail shows from the rougepelt/gelidus worlds in total annihilation/core contingency were pants. on the hard levels gelidus was nearly unplayable.

all in all i prefer games of skill, where the better player usually wins. id hate to win, then not be able to feel like i done good.

posted on October 27th, 2010, 10:06 pm

some cool ideas i think we will get some of them into the hyper ari redo 

posted on October 28th, 2010, 1:38 pm

some cool ideas i think we will get some of them into the hyper ari redo 

Very happy smiling face

posted on October 28th, 2010, 11:52 pm

Me too!
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posted on November 6th, 2010, 4:02 pm

lol if u dont like the risk, dont build the hsa, put your money into some battleships/weapons upgrades, which wont explode randomly. plus it obviously wouldnt destroy your hsa just damage it, annoying u.

I'm not a fan of dice rolls in a  strategy game, however I have a small idea to fit into this. The dominion gimmick (for lack of a better word) is prototypes. So what if upon construction, the HSA has a prototype designation. During this time it has a chance of failure when firing, consequences could just be plain damage or perhaps random sub-system failure. After ranking up once, you get the option to upgrade it for a Resource cost (numbers arn't my strong suit, someone else can determine whats balanced.).

In addition to whatever normal boost it would get from rank 1, it also becomes a production model and no longer suffers a chance to fail. Perhaps you could also cut the current construction resource cost a bit, then have the upgrade to production model cost the rest.