Hey guys,



Wouldn't it be cool to add some random environmental effects in different areas of the vacuum (not on systems) on the map to create diversity in strategy?



1. High radiation area: Need to research extra-radiation protection to travel across, or hero is injured and -50% in troops.

2. Black holes: Need to research gravity-bubble to travel through cosmic strings near black holes, or lose half of ships in fleet.

3. Debris: Need to research stronger armor or debris-clearing lasers to get across, or -50% fleet hp.

4. Solar wind (changes direction every few turns, and is indicated on maps with arrow signs): With the right technology, can greatly boost fleet speed in the direction of the wind. Without the tech, travel speed in the opposite direction is reduced by 50%.



These factors would affect how empires interacts with each other and wars are waged.

For example, empires with stronger military power wouldn't necessarily be able to invade a weaker empire easily because of these natural obstacles.

On the other hand, big empires can take advantage of these to better defend their ever-increasing border.

Vaulters would be able to avoid these once they build portals.



-Foxx

You'd need to mod that in. I think that anything that Amplitude releases for ES Complete would be bug patching, balancing, and maybe a couple of tiny things that we can all agree on (i.e. AI retreat behavior).

DesertFoxx wrote:
Hey guys,



Wouldn't it be cool to add some random environmental effects in different areas of the vacuum (not on systems) on the map to create diversity in strategy?



1. High radiation area: Need to research extra-radiation protection to travel across, or hero is injured and -50% in troops.

2. Black holes: Need to research gravity-bubble to travel through cosmic strings near black holes, or lose half of ships in fleet.

3. Debris: Need to research stronger armor or debris-clearing lasers to get across, or -50% fleet hp.

4. Solar wind (changes direction every few turns, and is indicated on maps with arrow signs): With the right technology, can greatly boost fleet speed in the direction of the wind. Without the tech, travel speed in the opposite direction is reduced by 50%.



These factors would affect how empires interacts with each other and wars are waged.

For example, empires with stronger military power wouldn't necessarily be able to invade a weaker empire easily because of these natural obstacles.

On the other hand, big empires can take advantage of these to better defend their ever-increasing border.

Vaulters would be able to avoid these once they build portals.



-Foxx

I like these ideas



I will think about modding them !

Kingsguard wrote:
I like these ideas



I will think about modding them !

Sweet! I will look forward to it!

as a pre suggestion I d think it d be best to use small random % for anything to happen. As most/all situations would be negative and/or crippling you dont want them to happen too often. That way deep space travel would remain a treasured strategic option while making its use a weighted decision.

That's a good point. I am not sure if Amplitude will introduce any big changes at this point, so this could be in ES2.