Navigation is the real “juice” of strategy in these kinds of games imo.

The layout looks nice, the faction thing is also a nice idea.

I’m loving it

On the other hand i think that it would be nice that if players want too they can make this game more complex. The basics of the game should be easy to learn but there are ways to give the addict what he wants with specialised gameplay. If 80% of the gameplay is easy you can add 20% stuff that gives the addict what he wants without giving him too much of an advantage over a standard player but would still be enough to keep the game interested. You dont want people leaving because of easy game and gameplay. But you also dont want to scare them away with complex stuff. How to balance that is up too you guys but there are a lot of ways to keep the experienced player interested without harming the level of the new player.

rozza: with regards to the two factions, pretty much, yeah

Dolon Posted something in the wrong thread:

Hmm, from the sound of things, the new game is going to be a lot less tactical than the old. Fewer ships, no research, it sounds a lot like a game of Risk with more players. While I agree that there were aspects to DG’s combat system that were overly complex (especially when that part of the code changed every round, and once or twice in the middle of a round), but please don’t go so far in the other direction that the possible tactics are so limited as to make it dull.

The most persistant feedback we’ve recieved has been related to over-simplification, please know that this wasn’t our direct intention.

One of the things which research gives, is a gain at a sacrifice, if you want a better economy, you have to sacrifice combat potential. We will be looking into other ways to replicate this sort of behaviour, in other ways.

There are still a lot of things to be finalised, what was posted here was just a taster of what’s to come

Remember there are only two sides - so all the alliances have to decide which they are starting in, which will hopefully result in a even spread in most games.

An issue perhaps will be where there are several very organised alliances in one faction, and a large number of less organised ones in the other. This will result in a rather quick game though!

There will be an opportunity here for alliance-specific games (e.g. SOL vs OPA) setup for major alliances to really get there teeth into each other, only the biggest alliances need apply though.

@Raptor - Although Dark Conflict and Tycoon Wars have solid foundations in terms of concepts, I am 100% behind ONLY working on Shadow Wars as the flag ship game for the new Turn Engine framework.

then it was announced that the game was being suspended, so i never bothered saying anything in the forums.

new game sounds good, exept for one thing i thought of last night.
you say there are only two sides this time, does this mean we are automatically recruited into S.O.L or S.O.D? lol

I was looking for old threads by Zedd about other games, but couldn’t find them