beta test - The Genesis Project

[spacetrace]

soon we will begin the beta test for The Genesis Project - a colonizing game play layer for spacetrace.

This addition is made for player who like empire building games. It adds a strategic game play to spacetrace, which was missing so far and often requested (noob question #1 : how can i grow?)

the tactial game core of ST stays untouched. Noobs may decide to concentrate on the genesis project, but they will still need a basic understandig of the tactial game play of ST.

the goal of this addition is to draw more new players into spacetrace, by offering them a familiar and easy to play (but with a lot of battle action) empire-building-game-play. We hope that many new players who enjoy this, will get Tactical-ST-vets one day (because they may need to , to cover their colony operations). Furthermore the colony game is good to play in big alliances, so we hope that bigger alliances will appear.

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this is how it works (in fact this shouldn't be a suprise, it is just like you would expect it):

1.
you need to be in an alliance
research the genesis project
research the colony star
(research some or all troop transporters, they carry troops to protect or attack colonies)

2.
search for pre warp worlds and colonize them with the colony star
colonies will provide reinforcements which are needed to build troops. the reinforcements will be available for all alliance members.

3.
build troops tranports and carry them to your (most valuable) colonies to protect them,
or build troops and carry them to enemy colonies to conquer them.

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info:

there are 3 different troops (there wont be more in the future)
defense guns (not suited for attacks, but very good against tanks and medium good against infantry)
tanks (good against infantry, bad aganist defense guns)
infantry (good against defense guns, bad against tanks)

battle is quite simple: you just need more troops to defeat the enemy (a little less if you use the better suited troops)

colonies provide reinforments (resource for troops) and have a value which is calculated from the evolution-state of the colony. colonies evolve depending on time and other things. this part must be tested most in the real game, because it is important that colonies arise that are much more valuable than others, to have some strategic hot-spots. In the future it will be possible to spend credits on your colonies to improve the evolution-state.

reinforcements are not restricted. alliances can colonize as much colonies as they want to and get that reinforcements. But the transport capabilities are restricted to the mp of the transport vessels. this should be a good balance.

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the genesis project as simple as it may look on the first glimpse, can be a good chance for st to attract more players. the tactical detail (getting troops to colonies, batteling other fleets which carry enemy troops, batteling other fleets that convoy troop-transport-fleets...) is the good old ST. I hope this combination is fun for vets and noobs!

pls post your thoughts/suggestions

[MicroJak]

Anything to bring more players into Spacetrace is always a good idea, and I'm sure this will. I'm gald that the balance between building new empires and still learning tactical skills of spacetrace is even. I think ths will add a great interest and change in Spacetrace, maybe whole different strategical game perhaps . Pretty cool idea, but I'fd like to see what other people think of it.
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[Holy KNight]

dude this rocks! I luv u spacetrace!

[Noxus]

You should get extra bonuses if you colonize the prewarp planets..

also, does the evolutionary state of the colony affect the troopers by giving more power?

[DavAlan]

Who gets the br's and other results on this, the alliance leader, CoW, the entire alliance?
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[MicroJak]

Yeah, there should be a new guy, like a BRR a Battle Report Reporter, beucase if it was a Battle Reporter you'd get it confused with a Battle Report (BR), I think that is what should happen.
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[Failtrip1]

[Dinskydude]

I might be thinking of a different design... I'l have to create it first though, but i got better at interfaces

http://stephanheijl.deviantart.com
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[Rubens]

[spacetrace]

[Dinskydude]

It's plain evolution i guess...
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[Failtrip1]

[berttone]

Good idea Microjack, possibly a GoC (Governor of Colonies) position within the alliance. GoC could have a screen similiar to the CoW screen showing the pertinent information for the colonies of the alliance as well as colonial battle info.
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2. Proportionality should be a guideline in war.
3. Get the data.
4. In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil.
5. Never say never.
6. You can't change human nature.

6 lessons from the book "The Fog of War"

[Renee Davis]

Regarding my naming of prewarps TLS goal was to leave a "mark" in ST as well as a little historical and geographical education.

TLS opens up: Guadalcanal, Rendova, Rennel, Tarawa, Midway, Wake, Kavieng, Rabual, Port Moresby, Luzon, Mindanao, and dozens of other pacific rim locations, islands and WW2 landmark battles

To get info on any prewarp without having the coords.

1) Go to pre-warp ("planets") list.
2) RIGHT CLICK on any name in your list
3) Do "open in new window"
4) In the URL replace the prewarp name with the name you are inquiring into and hit enter
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[Rubens]

[DavAlan]

I too had alot of misgivings about these "mini-games" coming out but, is neccessary to do "beta development" (we do it in programming as a standard) the 1st stages will be problematic but, not in an overwhelming way.
As far as pre-warps go, we were hopeful enough that that massive number of pre-warps would one day be useful for more than just a few ships....thus the massive colony counts of TLS and our former NZ as well and the 100 or so names Renee and I have assigned to many of them.
Time will tell but, changes were needed for a long time. Current ST is IMHO a year 2002 game in a year 2007 world and ST must catch up with other online games out there asap if it is to last.
In the long run the vets who insist on remaining single focused on battles will probably not like the new ST when it is done. New gameplay will require "multi-tasking" (not with multi's lmao ) as in using mp to battle (much more skill required as you will have to use mp for the other tasks), while other mp, probes, intel, etc will be used in colony development.
ST will be more realistic in these terms just like real war is
I myself like this intensified challege, successfully taking on larger alliances with less fighting mp that most single players use is one hell of an acomplishment assuming it remains possible

* hopes one day he will not find this:

Player Search
140 search results:

and 4 logged on :S :

The Ghost of The West Coast
Reneé A. Davis of The Pacific Rim
The_Order_ of _Chaos_
Zathura of Zathron

and make that the latter two in 5 m as it is 12:30am pdt now
* waves goodnight to the other two
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But it also breeds creation
And earthquakes are to a girl's guitar
They are just another good vibration
And tidal waves couldn't save the world
From Californication"
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlUKcNNmywk
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[Failtrip1]

[spacetrace]

the upload will be delayed some days...

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