I'm currently working on the Fleet Editor, which allows you to position the ships in your fleet and select/edit the programs they run. This has led me to think about the positions of fleets during an engagement. The obvious positions have both fleets facing off against each other, but assuming one of the fleets has done some sort of warp towards the other, what's the chance that this would 'really' happen?
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| Ships facing off |
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| Fleets randomly positioned |
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Now I'm not looking to really make a super realistic game but having random position engagements (like in many RTS games, where your starting structures/units are put in a random spot on the map) might be interesting - it would make randomly firing ahead of you when the engagement starts less effective, and would greatly reward intelligent flak, shield and interceptor positioning.
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A cleverly deployed (blue) fleet
versus a not-so-smart (red) fleet |
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