The New Breakdown of a Hex

[red]

Excellent blog, Chris. I like the new components feature. It reminds me of a request I meant to make a while ago, but thought would be impractical: add a top-secret type module to bases that reduces the amount of intelligence and spotting information available about them. It should be extremely expensive, but suitable then for one or two key bases where you keep your nuclear submarines, long-range bombers, etc. (How's intelligence looking, anyway?)

[Feltan]

Thanks Chris. Very interesting concepts there.

I wonder how you intend to represent this on a map. It seems that several different facilities (in 2010) terms can be in one hex -- which icons do you display? Or, have the icons be reworked too?

Regards,
Feltan

[Balthagor]

Great development !

Does this also mean that we can expand cities with lets say a hospital , university etc ?

Yeah yeah ... i know i'm more a civbuilder

You can expand the cities with anything for the list of buildings we provide, or you can edit the list and add you're own buildings tied to whatever technologies you like and effects we make possible. What the engine will support affecting with buildings is still being developed. Currently we do not have hospitals or universities, as mentioned most of the buildings are the stuff you see in SR2010 (research centers, industrial goods plants, AA sites, etc.)

...add a top-secret type module to bases that reduces the amount of intelligence and spotting information available about them...

No plans for something like this so far, modding might be possible to add, but we're still working on the more common elements to be placed on the map (After the military stuff I'll be doing nuclear power since the info is easily available). As we get further in we'll only have the more specialized bulidings so we'll have to start making some decisions at that point.

(David is still working on Ops, I've not really looked at any of his notes so far.)

...I wonder how you intend to represent this on a map. It seems that several different facilities (in 2010) terms can be in one hex -- which icons do you display? Or, have the icons be reworked too?...

Currently I'm working with the old building images as place holders (a few needed new place holders since some were not in SR2010) but we are having those graphics redone. How exactly they appear on map is not fully decided. We have some ideas we're going to try but if those don't work we'll have to come up with new ideas.

[Draken]

Very interesting concept here!

Couple of questions:

- Will the AI be able to add modules to its existing containers and will it be able to build new containers?

- Is a "fog of war" layer planned for the modules? (Meaning that the player/AI will have to gather intelligense about the containers)

[Balthagor]

AI Build; in the design. I won't say yes until implemented (learned my lesson on that one...)

Fog of war; there have been some discussions, current leaning seems to be some items will default secret such as fabrication facilities, others will be always known such as farms. This will be decided later in the development.

[BigStone]

This concept opens a whole new kind of possibilities to the gameplay !

I realy would like to know how the "research" will be in 2020 ....

[Noble713]

This new concept opens up all kinds of possibilities. I really like the idea of co-located airstrips and barracks; it should make air-transporting ground units easier, plus I found myself putting airstrip/outpost combos in SR2010 as it provides both transport assets as well as air cover for your ground troops (if an area is important enough to have a base with ground troops, it's probably important enough to have fighters nearby).

This allows for reserves to be stored in key areas without requiring a full military base with unit production.

Thankyou! Thankyou! Thankyou!