strategy game - design problems

Strohmann · 2004-09-26T05:33:26

i'm working on a strategy game - well, "working" sounds a bit over enthusiatic at current state it is an empire building game - or better a simulation of a civilization with emphasis on economics beginning with a small village you will take care of expanding your territory, building new towns or collonies, discovering new parts of the world (map is divided into small provinces, like the board game risk but much smaller), dealing with neighbouring civilizations (politics, wars, ...) and of course economics i don't want to go into the details here now, because it's too early in the designing process. for now i want to ask you to help me with two major problems: 1) TIME: the game should be in real time, it starts in ancient times - let's say around 3000 bc and ends in the 20th/21st century - you see the problem: if you play a full game of 5000 years at a constant speed of about 1 year in 3 minutes you need 250 hours to complete the game (at 1 year in 5 minutes it would be over 400 hours). One solution might be to change the game speed depending on the epoche: ancient troops move slower than a modern day tank - so game speed could be tweeked so both units need equal amounts of real time to move from one province to another - i'm not really happy with this idea, because this gives you less control in the beginning of the game, since time would elapse faster. So other solutions/opinions are very welcome. 2) LOOSING: i don't like the idea of a constantly growing and prospering empire over a time period of about 5000 years, this would be boring. I mean every empire falls apart some day - for many different reasons. But I don't want to show the player only a nice game over screen and some game statistics if his civlization gets conquered after 2000 years. Should you only become a kind of vassal of your conquerer? Should the player have the option to resume playing as the conquering nation? Or let him resume the game choosing between all civilizations still alive (or maybe randomly choosen)? Other ideas??? I really like to see what you think about these problems. Thanks in advance for constructive comments and suggestions.

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Started by Strohmann September 24, 2004 03:19 PM

9 comments, last by Wysardry 19 years, 7 months ago

Wysardry

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September 26, 2004 05:33 AM

Strange as it may seem, if a strategy game is not real time, turn based or a hybrid, it's known simply as a Strategy game.

It isn't compulsory for genre classification names to be an abbreviation or acronym.

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