|
Come play Neptunes Pride 2 I'll cut and paste what Toml once said: Those On My Left posted:Hello Auspol goons! This thread is the chat thread for a game of Neptune's Pride 2. NP2, aka shooty ships, is a combat strategy game. Your only goal is to control more than half of the total available stars and anything you do is solely to that end. There is no 'tech' victory or 'peace victory'. Though there is a secret robot domination victory where everyone except Coq wins  Only half of the game experience, I reckon anyhow, is moving shooty ships around to shoot other shooty ships. The part where the game really shines is dealing with other players. Making alliances, swapping tech, surprise attacks and back stabbing. The game is what you make of it. I had a quick google and thought this image best demonstrates how a game of NP2 pride might go:  Neptunes Pride 2 a Great game for Great FRIENDS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs-HbHCcK58
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 11:27
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 27, 2024 19:40 |
|
|
Last game thread is here : http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3738710 So game mechanics time. We discussed this last time and while epic massive games sound fun, they really aren't. So lessons from last game make me think we look towards a faster, more frantic game. The game is combat orientated so why beet around the bush? So I'm proposing
Starting Ships, economy, tech levels, tech trade costs I'm leaving all standard. Anyone have an opinion on that? One thing I wanted to put to people: Formal Alliances. If you played the game yonks ago, it might not have had this mechanic. If you have formal alliances turned off, basically allying is by verbal agreement only and you can't travel through each others star systems. You'd just end up attackign them. It's useful for border control I guess? You can be backstabbed without warning! If you turn on formal alliances, you both can pay a fee to enter into an alliance. You then share radar data and can travel through each other systems without attacking each other. Good for proper alliances. It takes more than 24 hours to break an alliance so you can't backstab without some warning. Basically the game usually would ends up being massive alliances versus other alliances. Idon't think an alliance on it's own can win a game, the win conditions still sit around an individual so end game could see the winning alliance cannibalizing itself, or you launch SKYNET. So should we allow them, or not? Game Start Date Something we can all agree on again I suppose. I was thinking towards the end of TOMLs Mafia game so we don't interfere. Player List when you sign up to NP and go into game, let me know your in game name (if it differs) so I can list it here 1. Bowmore - bowiemore 2. Venom Soag 3. Mithranderp 4. That Bastard Ken 5. Mystical Machine Gun 6. Beetphyxious - space beet 7. GoldStandardConure - 300 chickens 8. Freudian Slip - Freudian Ship 9. Those On My Left 10. Busb 11. Bruck dust otis 12. Gwynplaine 13. Sulla Mario 69 14. Splode 15. Infinitum - Hotdickings 16. birdstrike 17. kommando 18. milky moor  gonna star the game Thursday night! Pretty happy with that even number so signups are CLOSED hambeet fucked around with this message at 05:56 on Jan 18, 2016 |
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 11:43
|
|
|
I'm keen, i was sad I missed out last time
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 11:45
|
|
|
hell year
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 11:47
|
|
|
Yeah, I'll play though I suck at it because I don't like loving other people over who wants to join my e-bushido alliance
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 11:48
|
|
|
Mithranderp posted:Yeah, I'll play I'm in.
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 11:48
|
|
|
I'm interested.
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 11:49
|
|
|
i'll be friends with whoever wants to be my friend
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 11:49
|
|
|
I have no idea what to do so I will be friends with everyone at all times.
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 11:50
|
|
|
bowmore posted:i'll be friends with whoever wants to be my friend uh oh. Careful with that word. Busb has um, co-opted it somewhat.
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 11:52
|
|
|
Venom Soag posted:I'm in. http://i.imgur.com/Ufbr5ej.webm
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 11:53
|
|
|
Venom Soag posted:uh oh. Careful with that word. Busb has um, co-opted it somewhat. 
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 11:55
|
|
|
I think I can handle one turn a day. Count me in!
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 11:55
|
|
|
Okay I've sent PM's out
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 11:59
|
|
|
i invited birdstrike. we'll see 
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 12:03
|
|
|
i am keen I don't have any preference between formal and informal alliances. edit: in game name is 300 chickens 
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 12:05
|
|
|
Pew Pew Pew Blat Blat Blat Game name is Freudian Slip
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 12:09
|
|
|
my in game name is bowiemore
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 12:11
|
|
|
My in game name is MysticalMachineGun - I'd only be happy with formal alliances if breaking them is as easy as informal ones 
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 12:12
|
|
|
I hate myself Let's do it
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 12:13
|
|
|
Beetphyxious posted:Okay I've sent PM's out I didn't get one? Beet, are you subtly shaming me 
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 12:16
|
|
|
between this and 2 mafs I'm probably not jumping in but I'll see how I go if you need players mechanics wise the main thing to note is the option to resign and turn your alliance over to Ai control. How the Ai works is that it basically desires space communism and will hate everyone who has planets above the set # per player (18). If multiple people resign, the AI players are likely to form a skynet cabal. The cheaper text exchange costs are, the stronger this cabal will get because they will always trade between themselves.
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 12:18
|
|
|
MysticalMachineGun posted:I didn't get one? Beet, are you subtly shaming me To the people who said yes in thread thr other day. You didn't, but I advertised in thread for late comers. Here we are.
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 12:18
|
|
|
Then I have been shamed due to being late to the party 
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 12:23
|
|
|
im eager to gently caress up real bad again
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 12:26
|
|
|
woot woo
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 12:26
|
|
|
Brick Dust Otis posted:im eager to gently caress up real bad again yesssssss
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 12:43
|
|
|
I am literally going to play this game. I thought i read somewhere in the forums about a game like neptunes pride that was better without all the recriminations but i forget what it was called so sure lets do this again
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 12:55
|
|
|
watch out busb, it's cold in space
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 13:02
|
|
|
It's okay busb is pretty friendly
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 13:16
|
|
|
I'm... I'm Dirge And I'm in.
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 14:00
|
|
|
Hey busb Friend Want an alliance?
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 14:02
|
|
|
I'm in. Formal alliances are for wusses imo.
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 15:39
|
|
|
No one is safe The safe shall die
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 15:55
|
|
|
All shall burn
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 17:44
|
|
|
formal alliances are great you should leave them on
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 18:10
|
|
|
im gunna kill infinitum and then coz ive got him on ignore i wont ever have to listen to his whining about how he died
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 18:11
|
|
|
busb posted:I am literally going to play this game. Aren't all the recriminations the best part?
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 21:31
|
|
|
Here's a primer on how the turns work and the games timing mechanics. The game has a unit of measurement called a tick. It equates to one hour in real life. Everything is measured in ticks, travel time, production, research. I've set the game so that every 24 ticks you will get paid and this more or less equates to one turn. If you don't submit a turn within 24 hours the turn will automatically end and advance to the next turn. If all players submit end turn before the 24 hours is up the game will instantly advance to the 24th tick and start the next turn. This means you can actually have more than one turn in a day, but don't fret, as long as you check in once every 24 hour period you'll never miss a turn. What it does mean though is the turn start and finish times might change as it will be 24 hours from the start of a new turn. Also I think most events in games generally occur on whole ticks not part ticks. For example if you break a formal alliance it takes 24 ticks before you can attack again. In reality you can't attack until the 25th tick or after. If you send ships off prior and hope to land just on or a little bit after the 24th tick, eg 24.5 ticks, your attack won't work. Someone please chime in if I'm wrong.
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 21:58
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 27, 2024 19:40 |
|
|
Whoops, Combat does resolve in part ticks though. So if someone is attacking you and their fleet is 2.4 ticks away and you send a reinforcement fleet and it's 2.5 ticks away, it'll get there AFTER the combat has been resolved and the other player is in control of the star. They'd therefore have the defensive bonus. It might all sound complicated, it's really, really not. If soag, who hates video games, could learn it it's pretty easy.
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2016 22:10
|
|