Stupid game enhancement ideas

...and why they would be stupid.

from Sins Forums

So post your own game choices that you're friggin' glad IronClad decided NOT to go with. Let's have some fun with this thread.

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STUPID IDEA: Have all the orbital structures actually orbit the planet.

WHY IT'S STUPID: Your newly constructed capital ship, a lethal assembly of high technology and vengeance-driven crew, slowly exits the construction facility and gracefully moves into position. Suddenly a crystal asteroid comes along on its orbital path and smashes your gorgeous dreadnaught into considerably less appealing chunks of scrap metal.

ALSO WHY ITS STUPID: Enemy assault frigates spend hours chasing down orbital structures to kill them. Eventually, everyone just gives up and builds nothing but strikecraft carriers, siege frigates, and capital ships. Light frigate captains would commit suicide from boredom in droves.

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STUPID IDEA: Make the planets orbit the sun.

WHY IT'S STUPID: Picture this: you send your fleet off to tackle a planet that's on a different orbital path and orbiting the star at a different speed. As that planet moves, so does the phase lane, and in transit, suddenly your entire fleet finds itself passing directly through the heart of the sun. Ouchies.

ALSO WHY IT'S STUPID: The marijuana crowd would starve to death because they'd zoom out to where all the phaselanes around the star were visible, and then turn up the gamespeed and watch the lines and planets dance in psychedelic patterns until their eyeballs fell out. Then Jack Thompson, sensing another "cause", would create a class-action suit against Ironclad, thousands of gamers-with-munchies would jump on board, and the resulting legal defense fees would bankrupt StarDock.

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STUPID IDEA: Make the game true to scale.

WHY IT'S STUPID: Mouse scrollwheels would burst into flame and burn players' fingers, which would eventually fall off from overuse anyway.

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STUPID IDEA:  An achievement where players have to win using only fighters or bombers.

WHY IT'S STUPID: Kinda hard to conquer a solar system when the only thing you can build is a planetary hangar. :)

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More later.

-- Retro

 

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
don't you people have any tact when it comes to making criticism. you think this is an internet forum, hence you can be extremely rude at people's creative work.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
Nicely done Cheers to that!  :CONGRAT: 
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
don't you people have any tact when it comes to making criticism. you think this is an internet forum, hence you can be extremely rude at people's creative work.


Can you read?

Serious question.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
elias001, DID YOU EVEN READ THE POST????

Here's some more for people that have actually read the thread.
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STUPID IDEA: Black Hole weapons

WHY IT'S STUPID: Because then the game would suck.

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STUPID IDEA: Making pirates more like the ones that were in the Caribbean

WHY THEY'RE STUPID: Parrots can't breathe in space. Vessels with an eyepatch would have a very reduced firing arc. And casting Johnny Depp as a voiceactor would completely annihilate the improvement development budget.

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STUPID IDEA: Death Stars

WHY THEY'RE STUPID: Players could blow up planets into a bajillion crystal and metal asteroids. The resulting huge number of mines would break the economy so bad, it would make the fully upgraded Vasari resourcing process look like a one-armed miner with a blunt teaspoon.


-- Retro
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
Haha! I love the weed related one. Damn. Half wish they'd have done it lol... Purely because i miss hatchet jack, of course.
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
STUPID IDEA: make an uber unit

WHY ITS STUPID: people would only construct that one unit
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
Why would orbital structures go around a planet, but not any of the ships? Are they suddenly not made out of mass, for some reason?
Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top
Bobucles, this is like one of those Die Hard movie sequels where you're supposed to leave your brain at the door and just enjoy the ride. Of COURSE the scenario is ridiculous. It's intentional.

But for completeness and physics proprietary, I'll turn it around and make it a heavily damaged capital ship coasting home in triumph from a different gravity well, and hoping to get to a repair bay at its homeworld after exiting its phase lane, and CRUNCH...

-- Retro