Feature Requests - Host

• Cloak should only make the minefield harder to scan/sweep - independend from the active state.
• With cloak ON the ord decay should increase significantly.
• Once a minefield is scanned or you have hit the minefield, you can see it, even if it is cloaked.
• Only races that have cloaking ships should be able to cloak their mines.

• The Pod must be inside the field for this to work.
• It will effect active fields before cloaked, and cloaked fields before inactive. With lowest id first in the event there are more than 1 fields of that state.
• Should a pod with ord detonate where a cloaked mine is laid, not only will the ord be reduced in the minefield, buts it status of cloaked will be comprimised as detonated ord will add 1000 sensor image to the field affected by the pod detonation.

Myflowers It should be a Formula which take in count Prisioners in each base (Like Colonists VPs do), not the total amount. ( i disagree this idea entirely as the EE already recieve a perk from prisoners. even if the prisoners are owned by another race. EE gets perks of additional Resource points for prisoners being taken no matter who owns them. to give a race a VP perk for doing what they have to do anyway, is just another way to make the slaver races more powerful than they already are. thats like giving the COM vp for producing 100 million fighters. they have to do it any way so lets give them VP for every 1000kt of fighters. or give the IMT a VP for every 1mil minerals drilled out of a core. or Give UEA VP for every 1000kt of contraband that they Capture/redistribute they have to do it anyhow so let them earn points for it? or give crystals VP for every 1000 points of stress Lathed?. see it dont work like that, if you want to give VP for something lets not make it for something they have to do or for something they are meant to do, make it for something that they normally cannot do, at least then its a challenge. something like Non Slavers races who manage to get 1 milion Prisoners earn a VP Point now thats a challenge. since most of the non slaving races are designed for other purpoases rather than enslaving, due to weak ground troops and mechs usually this would be a perk. or crystals producing 100 milion kt of Repair units(producing not captureing). something they dont normally do which would involve capturing a base, and we all know crystal ground forces suck, ...er i mean are not that great so its now a challenge ---- )
You're wrong Protomatter - right now we *do have* a VP scoring system - and that system is favouring certain races (high growth + native friends). The proposal is just to introduce another criteria (that would of course favour some races more than others, too). Although this wouldn't be perfect either, it would allow for more diversity in VP games. Jochen 23:01, 2 December 2007 (CET) im not wrong if you think about it, im in disagreement. and high growth races will always have an advantage in growth. just as slaver races always have an advantage with prisoners. just as fighter races always have an advantage with fighters. i agree the VP system portion that counts population is not balanced. but its an option that can be turned on//off. so the mere fix for the situation quoted above is....turn off population VP.
You're right, it is good that VP conditions can be turned on/off, but I'd rather vote for more diversity than a generally restriction (see "VP Programming Interface" above). Thus a prisoner condition (that could also be turned on/off) would be good imho. Jochen 10:06, 3 December 2007 (CET) if that were allowed you would probably totally switch the game from a standard mix of races to a slavers only mix. if thats what youre trying to create then i think you nailed it on the head. yes i could see a variety of means to earn VP theres also the racial bonus for privs stealing. which noody ever seemns to turn on. so if it the vp were turned on for the prisoners, i can see possibly two scenarios. either everyone will become a slaver race in that game, or nobody will bother to sign up for it, like in the other privateer racial bonus games. where everyone wants to play the pirates or not play in it all. --protomatter 21:13, 3 December 2007 (CET)