02-04-2022, 03:31 PM
If we are done talking about super-shield-thingy-buildings that are either too powerful or pointless. I guess I will summarize the general idea I had in mind since the start of this thread soon two years ago.
All solar systems that contain a military base will have all buildings be invulnerable, all spacecraft in orbit of a world that has a military base will be invulnerable too. I Suggested in the past that maybe military bases should actually have a maintenance cost, so you actually need some civilian infrastructure to support it aside from just supplying it food and ammunition.
See: (Idea thread) Base Maintenance Cost
If you want to conquer a solar system, you park a warship in orbit of the solar system's main sequence or at the rim of the solar system and give it the order to siege. The ship will defend its area and broadcast periodic propaganda on the Hail channel. Cities in the solar system (regardless of owner) will then start requesting help on the Friend channel. Once the solar system has been under siege this way for a week or so, the solar system enters a "contested" state that allow the attacker to invade, capture or bombard the cities.
The amount of time it take to siege a solar system could be based on population number or simply city capital types in the solar system. How a solar system could become harder to siege with age instead is a whole other subject that I would love to discuss in another thread. We still need more ways for old cities to have value and such, so the best option isn't always just to bombard everything and found fresh new cities.
Defender will have time to try and stop the sieging ship before the siege is complete, allowing for basic back and forth exchanges of combat. The sieging ship can be attacked while the attacker is offline because it is not in orbit of a world with a friendly military base. If the defender can't handle the sieging ship on their own, they can spend the time requesting help from neighbors to deal with it, or even negotiate peace with the attacker.
Basically this conquest system could work along side the noncombatant system. If the noncombatant system stays you should be able to siege a system even if the defender is offline, but then once the solar system has been contested the attacker would have to wait for the defender to come online to proceed with the attack. If the noncombatant system is scraped however, you would simply always have a week's time buffer to find out what is happening.
All solar systems that contain a military base will have all buildings be invulnerable, all spacecraft in orbit of a world that has a military base will be invulnerable too. I Suggested in the past that maybe military bases should actually have a maintenance cost, so you actually need some civilian infrastructure to support it aside from just supplying it food and ammunition.
See: (Idea thread) Base Maintenance Cost
If you want to conquer a solar system, you park a warship in orbit of the solar system's main sequence or at the rim of the solar system and give it the order to siege. The ship will defend its area and broadcast periodic propaganda on the Hail channel. Cities in the solar system (regardless of owner) will then start requesting help on the Friend channel. Once the solar system has been under siege this way for a week or so, the solar system enters a "contested" state that allow the attacker to invade, capture or bombard the cities.
The amount of time it take to siege a solar system could be based on population number or simply city capital types in the solar system. How a solar system could become harder to siege with age instead is a whole other subject that I would love to discuss in another thread. We still need more ways for old cities to have value and such, so the best option isn't always just to bombard everything and found fresh new cities.
Defender will have time to try and stop the sieging ship before the siege is complete, allowing for basic back and forth exchanges of combat. The sieging ship can be attacked while the attacker is offline because it is not in orbit of a world with a friendly military base. If the defender can't handle the sieging ship on their own, they can spend the time requesting help from neighbors to deal with it, or even negotiate peace with the attacker.
Basically this conquest system could work along side the noncombatant system. If the noncombatant system stays you should be able to siege a system even if the defender is offline, but then once the solar system has been contested the attacker would have to wait for the defender to come online to proceed with the attack. If the noncombatant system is scraped however, you would simply always have a week's time buffer to find out what is happening.