Re: [glob2-devel] We must do a game, not an engine

[Robert Martin]

On 4/25/07, Kai Antweiler <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Ha! what are the odds! when obviously The Coders care for nothing about the
> > other work.
>
> I think we have quite some mails in the list of coders who want to transfer
> maps by hand if necessary.  Anyone here welcomes work done anywhere
> in glob2.
> Well exept you.
> I don't reply of the rest of the mail.
> There was no information in the rest of your mail anyway - only a lot
> of aggression.
> And I don't understand how anyone here could be the cause of it.
> I was about to congratulate us of the fine and hard work this month.
> Doing the releases, tests, bugfixing, wiki-rewriting, animations and
> repositorial change while some core rewriting takes place is incredible.
> And don't forget the two servers we changed.
> Hopefully this will not again turn out to become a flame thread.
>
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> Kai Antweiler
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things i can see that would make a better Game

1 the map should not in any way shape or form "wrap around" {--- this
i would consider to be a massive bug (right now the far north becomes
the far south east becomes west)

2 the maps seem to be very small (this may have changed recently
but...) you should be able to fit a swarm/ pool/school/ barracks in
without having to clear land

3 when you are building a wall run the whole section should be
considered as one "building"
you lay eight sections in a row then you should be able to have 3
workers build the whole row

4 I would have as a variant of scout a "oracle" unit -- this unit
would cause the window to expand out (say 2 "oracle" units get you a
double window) but i would also add a required energy tower and add to
the defense tower a way to shoot down hostile oracles (note this would
not clear Fog of War you would just be able to see a larger local
area)

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Robert L Martin