Infinite Moons...

posted on May 12th, 2010, 2:07 am

To the Devs,

LOVE the game, just have one small request.  Could you please reinstate a way to turn the infinite moons OFF?  It adds a whole new level of strategy to the game.  Thanks!

posted on May 12th, 2010, 2:10 am

Welcome to the site.

I'd like non-infinate moons but the FO crew don't like them, and it's their choice. I asked before and they prefer inflexible and dull resources where none have any special value.

posted on May 12th, 2010, 2:12 am

Indeed, welcome!
Fleet Operations is balanced according to infinite moons, as this ensures that simple turtle methods cannot win. For this reason there will most probably not be a change to the infinite moon settings any time soon 

Welcome to the site.

I'd like non-infinate moons but the FO crew don't like them, and it's their choice. I asked before and they prefer inflexible and dull resources where none have any special value.

Relax mate. There will most probably be other ways to get resources in the future

posted on May 12th, 2010, 2:19 am

I was just wondering if the possibility to have finite moons could be reinstated as alternate map objects? Some maps could have interesting depth if lets say not all the moons were infinate. i could easily see a finite moon being a critical boost to resources to overcome your opponent. Especially if each player has only a set number of expansions at infinate locales.

posted on May 12th, 2010, 8:44 am

yep, thats an idea

posted on May 12th, 2010, 10:29 am

i can see the reason why infinite moons are on FO, what happens when you ran all the moons dry of resources and everyone has no resources to do anything? besides some races require an excessive amount of a particular resource in order to survive. i agree with the FO MOD team.

i have seen infinite resource moons loose their resource count when playing against AI's. but its few and far between, but none he less a bug.

posted on May 12th, 2010, 11:07 am

The ability to have finite moons means some games will progress over time. At first players will go for any moon they can get to, but as moons run out, the fight will be brought to the infinte moons much more.

They were after all great focal points in stock A2.

posted on May 12th, 2010, 12:46 pm

What would be interesting is if the finite moons had a faster resource gather rate than the infinite moons

posted on May 12th, 2010, 11:46 pm

Faster mining rate is definately incentive to go and get a depletable resource. I really like that idea

posted on May 13th, 2010, 7:18 am

map rushing huh?, get as many rocks as possible as fast as possible, decommission the stations and do it again, the the mexican shoot out begins for who has the biggest baddest stockpile

posted on May 13th, 2010, 8:27 am

What would be interesting is if the finite moons had a faster resource gather rate than the infinite moons

interressting  idea

posted on May 13th, 2010, 2:45 pm

map rushing huh?, get as many rocks as possible as fast as possible, decommission the stations and do it again, the the mexican shoot out begins for who has the biggest baddest stockpile

thats the way the game is played anyway.

[Tyler]

posted on May 13th, 2010, 2:56 pm

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Having finate moons mined faster would burn through the moons resources faster, they'd be discarded much faster. You'd be forced to rush for infinates earlier and if you're one of the many less-careful spenders, your resources would be wasted faster.

posted on May 13th, 2010, 2:59 pm

sooo???
Im not saying compleatly remove the regular moons from maps, im just saying that it would be interesting to have a few moons (that are finite) that you could gather resources from quicker.

posted on May 13th, 2010, 3:05 pm

You said nothing about some moons, the first post came over more as all moons. All finate ones isn't very newb-friendly.