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Area/Game:Wooden Ships & Iron Men
1Topic:Bugs and Improvements
Subject:Re: Start the game with points?
Posted by: BlueDragon - 12years 176days ago.
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dcr66 wrote:
ElPenguino wrote:
Longneck wrote:
I had an idea that might help a couple of the treasure-type scenarios, like Hubert's new one (Spanish Treasure Fleet 1). The whole point is that the treasure ships get away, but our scoring system doesn't give a reward for escaping, so I was wondering if one side could start the game with points. For example, the Spanish would start with, say, the capture value of the treasure ships. That way, even if the escorts are destroyed, they still get credit for NOT losing the treasure ships.


I like this idea too.. of course it would need to be made clear which ships had the treasure! I presume the game would end in the usual way if there was no conflict over 5 rounds ?


Maybe we need some special graphics around the special ships. For that particular scenario, shooting will start long before the 5 turns expire.

Giving ships special graphics or giving one side a fixed amount of points at the start would both need some special code for it.

However, there's an easy change that we could do without modifiying the code to give the flavour of "you need to capture those treasure ships":
  • Make the escort ships worth 0 points.

    Also, the treasure ship(s) might also give as many points as the whole enemy fleet together (or even more), so that if you lose them you also lose the game.




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    12years 182days Longneck Start the game with points?
    12years 178days dcr66 Re: Start the game with points?
    12years 176days ElPenguino Re: Start the game with points?
     12years 176days dcr66 Re: Start the game with points?
      12years 176days BlueDragon Re: Start the game with points?
       12years 175days dcr66 Re: Start the game with points?
        12years 174days Longneck Re: Start the game with points?
        12years 174days BlueDragon Re: Start the game with points?
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