I have and idea about when you dominate a planet. Instead of only getting tribute, you should be able to build up the planets tech level. So that you can buy/sell more outfits at the planet/station. Also, you should be able to colonize planets. You get a taraforming team to go to a planet and then when the planet is livable you get a bunch of people on a leviathin and go to the planet to start out with a planet that has a tech level of 1. I just think that that would be a cool thing to add to EVN (maybe for the next one.) I think i'll start working on this this weekend.

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(This message has been edited by Avatar7 (edited 02-13-2004).)

Cool. Not bad ideas. Obviously, there might only be one or two terraform-and-colonize missions (there's one in the game currently - Nirvana-terraforming string, but on a smallish scale, and you dont control the planet). I think you would need to pay close attention to how you implement this, so that it doesnt make the game shift towards "build a planet up" (which nomatter how much work one puts into, nova cant do a spectacular job of, while still having your planet be important to the player. Mabey it could come complete with a very branchy string that will determine the fate of the planet and it's owner... or something.

-Az

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That's a cool idea, and it should be pretty easy to implement, as long as you don't care about missions to the techlevel 2 planet not working after it's upgraded. However, owning and upgrading a planet would take a lot of money, unless you're first in a colonizing spree. (you claim the planet and sell plots of land) You could get it worked in, though.

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**Mabey it could come complete with a very branchy string that will determine the fate of the planet and it's owner... or something.
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Yeah, maybe I can work it into a minor storyline that branches off into some of the other main storylines. Depending on the location of the planet you choose decides which storyline you enter into. For instance, your planet is inside the federation and when you get the planet upgraded to a certain point, Commander Krane comes to you and tells you that she has seen the capability for ruthlesness in you and wondered if you would like to help out the "federation".

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Ok guys, I almost have the plug finished. But I need some input as to a few things about the plug.

1. Where should I put the system?

2. How high should I allow the tech level to go?

3. Should I put in an ability to build a ring on the planet?

4. Should I put how you upgrade the planet in the Mission BBS or through the Bar or both (I say through the bar because I think that I will have the planetary govener ask for upgrades.)

Any Ideas for these would be a big help. I might be done this upcoming weekend if I get input on these.

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i think u should hyave 10 levels of tech upgrades, and where to upgrade it could either be, when you communicate to the planet, like when u upgrade an escort, or you could have another option when u go and land on the planet, like have a governors office or something.

and also, i think if u like take over too many planets in the federation, what should happpen is some burea ppl come up to you and they try to arrest you, but u fight back and run away, and u have the option to join either the rebel, auroran, or pirate strings or something like that. and if its too many in auroran, they get mad at u and u join the feds or something.

oh, and i dunno about the ring, if you can, it should only be when u reach a tech level of 8/10 or something lkike that, really high, and then also be really reallo expensive.

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**i think u should hyave 10 levels of tech upgrades, and where to upgrade it could either be, when you communicate to the planet, like when u upgrade an escort, or you could have another option when u go and land on the planet, like have a governors office or something.

and also, i think if u like take over too many planets in the federation, what should happpen is some burea ppl come up to you and they try to arrest you, but u fight back and run away, and u have the option to join either the rebel, auroran, or pirate strings or something like that. and if its too many in auroran, they get mad at u and u join the feds or something.

oh, and i dunno about the ring, if you can, it should only be when u reach a tech level of 8/10 or something lkike that, really high, and then also be really reallo expensive.

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Ok, thanks for the input.

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oh, just came up with some ideas.

i say, go with the governors office idea, but also, instead of just having a tech level, there shoudl be certain other things u can develop. like you should have to hire police and stuff liek that. and be able to build schools and universaties, and if u do stuff like that, then ppl get happy, and then u get more money from the planet. but just have like 5 things u can develop. like have 5 levels of education that u can develop, 10 leveles of tech still, and like 8 levels of law enforcement/public services(ex. hospitals, police, fireman, etc.). that would be cool, but might put too much focus on making a planet. what do u guys think?

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**oh, just came up with some ideas.

i say, go with the governors office idea, but also, instead of just having a tech level, there shoudl be certain other things u can develop. like you should have to hire police and stuff liek that. and be able to build schools and universaties, and if u do stuff like that, then ppl get happy, and then u get more money from the planet. but just have like 5 things u can develop. like have 5 levels of education that u can develop, 10 leveles of tech still, and like 8 levels of law enforcement/public services(ex. hospitals, police, fireman, etc.). that would be cool, but might put too much focus on making a planet. what do u guys think?

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Too much focus on the planet, IMO. And a real b.... to code too.
-Az

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yah, i was worried u might have to focus on the planet too much. but it ould still be cool.

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You could also have missions regarding protecting the system from pirates etc. You could also be offered to steel technologies fot your planet etc.

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Alright! Thanks for all of the input. If I can, I will get theis uploaded this weekend.

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what about if there were planets that didnt like you, could you get a small military fleet from yer planet to attack the other plant maybe. i dunno, i dont like that idea as much. but this would be a col plugin for sure.

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I like this idea. Perhaps I'll try it myself. It doesn't sound that hard to create the plug-in, it'll just take me forever to make it perfect. Of course if Nova is way more difficult than EVO was, I'll have some problems.

Good luck though. And when you make it, don't forget to post it.

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i just had aother idea.what about planets that didnt have anybody living on them. u could get a terraforming team to make them livible, but how woud u get to own it int he first place, if theres no one on it u catnt demand tribute from it, you should have to like, i dunno, buy the rights to own it from a government or something. that would be cool

oh, and you know how in auroran and fed space, all the gas giants dont have anyone on them, but the polaris ones do, if u did the polaris string, u should be able to get some polarans to make them livible, that would be cool.

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**i just had aother idea.what about planets that didnt have anybody living on them. u could get a terraforming team to make them livible, but how woud u get to own it

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I'm going to make it so that the next upgraded planet is always dominated and everyone after that is dominated. The reason I'm not having you buy the rights is because it was recently discovered and teh company is tired of the BII so it needs a captain who has a high combat rating to become leader of this new planet so that they can have a place where the BII doesn't breath down thier necks anymore. You get the benafit of having your own fortress where you are safe from the federation and the BII because it is extremly hard to get there as it is in the middle of the Obatta Nebula and there are interference problems with the engine caused by the nebula

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Problem with 10 tech levels: When looking at Mjolnir's spob resource, I think I saw a special tech 9 in there. So you might get a polaron suprise at that level. is not sure about it though

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Ok, I have gotten requests for an ability to change the planets name. Well I can do that but, I need some suggestions for names. I need 4 different names. You can choose one of the names or leave it the same. The name I have put it as is Centurion. I'll take any suggestions.

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I'd like to suggest that participating in the Gli-Tech string should affect the tech level.

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