Life support or communication array?

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In my opinion, life support do not reflect the actual limitation for range.

First of all, ship never need to resupply at any base.
Second, when thrown away far out of 'supply' range, the ship do not die, it race back in controlled space.

So in good roleplay, I prefere the ´I cant communicate with central command' past this point.

It could also be a nice twist if any scouted area outside of command zone where only updated when the ship return in command zone!

I can imagine my explorer comming back home with tones of new info after the wormhole exploration.

Also, if experience is ever coming back, High level captaine might make little detour on the way home getting more info and more anomaly (wich would only be made available when back in command zone)

Any thought?

 

Mr. Kurt

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Good idea ships shouldn't update the map when out of communications range. 



Also, if experience is ever coming back, High level captaine might make little detour on the way home getting more info and more anomaly (wich would only be made available when back in command zone)

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The idea reminds me of Star Trek Voyager.  :grin:

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I like it! Would love to see it happen. Maybe if the ship's on auto-explore when it goes out of bounds then it will stop off at any anomalies in its line of sight along the way, but until it gets back in range the player can't control it and doesn't gain any information or resources until it's back in range.

Though one of the current uses of Life Support is to prevent colonizing planets too far away, this could be handled by still disallowing intentionally leaving communications range - only wormholes would have a chance of bending that rule, and only survey ships would have any sort of advantage. Plus, if the intent is to leave anomalies identifiable by the player, then the auto-exploring of anomalies might not always be good - it may stop at anomalies the player would have chosen to pass by (eg, Blasphemy).

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Maybe life support could still exist for colony ship, constructor and transport. Keeping so many colonist, workforce or marines alive is more difficult than the usual smaller  ship crew. And most of the time, those ship are a oneway trip anyway.

It could also be more consistant  when explaining robotic lifeform.

 

Mr. Kurt

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I like this idea! :D