(01-24-2022, 03:35 AM)QuakeIV Wrote: Since you asked for problems with the system wide siege notion, I would point out your idea likely requires far more complicated rules to make work than a city shield. For instance, to address some specific points:
- Since destroying all military buildings is needed to initiate the siege, is the siege broken if someone manages to build a guard tower?
- Do military buildings hidden on the bottom of an insidious gas giants count against preventing a siege?
- What about hiding military buildings between the invulnerable civilian buildings, thereby making them almost or entirely impossible to destroy? (I seem to remember this happening before)
- Is it really particularly amusing for your notification that you are under attack to be that all of your military buildings and spacecraft are gone and there is constant hail spam every 30 seconds?
- Even if you did away with the originally proposed hail spam, how would people know they are still under attack? The enemy ships will be parked far away doing nothing.
Yeah, I guess I didn't edit that about destroying military buildings out of the opening post. After discussing the safe harbor idea with Haxus and hearing his idea for noncombatant protection, I sort of liked the idea of the worlds and everything in their orbits being protected by default. As for the whole "destroy military buildings before civilian buildings" logic that is still in the game, I assume if that logic would stay it would be an issue for any idea, since even the super-shield-thingy-building could be hidden between two civilian buildings.
As for the hail spam, I assume you know 30 seconds interval would be insane? I was suggested that cities actually play a siren alarm sound when enemies on are the world, something like that would help a lot to make cities not feel so tone dead to their surroundings and could be used to indicate an active siege on the system too. I confess there are many people that don't read their Dossier messages either or even know why the button is "flashy", and they wouldn't know that anything is being sieged in another solar system at all, but I guess that is an issue with the Dossier's design.