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| ID | Project | Category | Date Submitted | Last Update | |
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| 0005131 | AI War 1 / Classic | Suggestion - Balance Tweaks | Nov 7, 2011 2:28 pm | Nov 8, 2011 8:01 am | |
| Reporter | Crehl | Assigned To | keith.lamothe | ||
| Status | assigned | Resolution | open | ||
| Product Version | 5.020 | ||||
| Summary | 0005131: Have AI Fortresses spawn periodic waves of ships when under attack. | ||||
| Description | (First off, I'm not sure if this should be in balance tweaks or new features. If it's mis-categorised - sorry). This is mostly in response to the AI fortress health decrease, as a way of making fortresses more challenging without increasing the time it takes to destroy a fortress significantly. In particular, spawning fighters would make the most sense from the AI's perspective and be the most interesting / challenging choice given that it's common just to grab a blob of bombers and send them at fortresses. Spawning waves would encourage more strategy in taking down fortresses (E.g., do I keep some frigates nearby, and risk losing them to the fortress, or dedicate some snipers instead? etc.) as opposed to the usual select all bombers -> attack fortress. This could also possibly be linked with the guard post / reinforcement mechanic - something such as having the fighters spawn slightly after the planet's reinforcements do (So you get an early warning to pull back your bombers if they're without any kind of support), or have the number of fighters spawned dependant on the number of reinforcement structures left on the planet. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Internal Weight | Feature Suggestion | ||||
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The challenge of Fortresses comes from what's naturally around them, and so it varies greatly from system to system. Having them always have the ideal counter built-in is probably needlessly harsh. If anything, I could see letting them act as a Barracks for ships that would otherwise overflow the system. But I think I'd rather that be a Fortress variant (Fortress Barracks) with a weaker main attack than a feature of all AI Fortresses. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 7, 2011 2:28 pm | Crehl | New Issue | |
| Nov 7, 2011 3:24 pm | Hearteater | Note Added: 0017454 | |
| Nov 8, 2011 8:01 am | tigersfan | Internal Weight | => Feature Suggestion |
| Nov 8, 2011 8:01 am | tigersfan | Assigned To | => keith.lamothe |
| Nov 8, 2011 8:01 am | tigersfan | Status | new => assigned |
