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Mark L
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I wish that I could down-vote this idea, but that's not an option so here's my take on it.
Changing the battle mechanics so fundamentally would have a HUGE radical change on the game play. You can't overstate this enough. To use some other games as analogies: what if you could attack/defend in chess with two pieces? What if Pacman had 100 little ghosts that cause health damage to avoid instead of 5 that cause instant death? What if Super Mario Bros. made you fist fight each goomba he encountered in the style of MIke Tyson's Punch Out (like a reverse comparison to VGA Planets)? You can easily see that each of these would TOTALLY RADICALLY change these games. Both strategy and game play would be completely different.
The point is that changing Planets from serial to "fleet" combat mechanics, while interesting and exciting, would leave you with a totally new game that one should probably not even associate with the "traditional" planets just because the game play would be so different. I'd like to try out such a game, but I'd want it kept separate and totally unrelated to planets.nu. The ship list and specs would have to be heavily tweaked to maintain balance, as would race advantages. And obviously effective and satisfying battles would have to be WAY more complex and configurable to make it worthwhile. All of this would have to make it VGA Planets v5 (or 6 now?) in order to be viable, but not just an add-on to NU.
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77 votesMark L
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YES. PLEASE. I'm so sick of changing the zoom to my preference that I'm about ready to write a script for it.
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THANK YOU. I'm sick of changing the zoom every time I play. 100% is (nearly) by definition the default for anything in life, who asked for 140% to be the default??
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120 votesMark L
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It's worth pointing out that Classic games will ALWAYS and forever stay true to the original, or at least 99% true. That was a promise to Tim W as I understand it. Ion storms in Classic games will remain unchanged.