Conquest of Planets (WIP) {Update: Jan 14}

[CaptainJester]

@Abuse

However you are handling the mouse input for selection & sending orders is realy flakey, i’m finding it’s frequently missing clicks.

Yeah, I tried to fix it, but it still is not as responsive as it should be. I’m still going to see if I can get it going.

[CaptainJester]

@cylab

I was refering to the fact, that you can’t know where the new ships appear, when you have an overall limit.

• maximum limit reached -> no ships get produced
• you loose some ships -> somewhere (don’t know what rule) a ship appears
  -> somewhere else a ship appears
• maximum limit reached -> no ships get produced

this imho leads to unpredictable gameplay

The game I am basing this on does this as well and I didn’t find it hurt gameplay. That’s also why I put in the select all planets with the right mouse button.

[CaptainJester]

New viersion uploaded.

• fixed mouse issues (still a small bug, but works a lot better)
• some planets were not generating ships properly, ie they stalled

Thanks for all the great comments everyone. It has helped a lot in fixing bugs and improving gameplay.

[cylab]

@CaptainJester

That’s also why I put in the select all planets with the right mouse button.

Actually I didn’t know that.

For me it ruined the challenge alltogether:
1 conquer 5 or so planets
2 hold the shift-key for the rest of the game
3 position the mouse over the next planet you want to conquer
4 right click, left click
6 go to step 3

This way you get the level done quickly, even on hard…

[CaptainJester]

@cylab

Actually I didn’t know that.

For me it ruined the challenge alltogether:
1 conquer 5 or so planets
2 hold the shift-key for the rest of the game
3 position the mouse over the next planet you want to conquer
4 right click, left click
6 go to step 3

This way you get the level done quickly, even on hard…

I was thinking the same thing. Is it too easy with it in? or would people complain if I took it away?

I will take it out to make more challenging.

[CaptainJester]

Another update:

• removed right click to select all planets
• made 6 difficulty settings.

So now the controls are:

• single click to select 1 planet
• drag to select multiple planets
• click target to send all ships from selected planets
• SHIFT click to send half ships from each selected planet.
• you can also press ‘R’ at any time to restart the game

[zeroone]

I beat level 1. Interesting game. I really didn’t have much of a strategy though. I just selected a bunch of my planets and arbitrarily clicked on one of the gray or blue planets until all the blue ones were gone.