Bump!
I won't do Plasma Vs. Besides, thats ripping of Karnaks server.
Looks like the Federation and Klingons Vs. Rabble is winning! I have a map already and WOW... It looks too cool!
Didn't we do that not that long ago? I'm almost sure we did, anyway...
You'll find most of my ideas on contemporary dynas. It just take a couple years for the other admins. "to see the Karnak light". *snicker*.
But, imitation is always the best form of flattery.
Some examples:
- AI stripping missions. First successfully done by EEK in April, 2003. AOTK2 was first dyna to roughly duplicate it. Still not quite there yet.
- Disengagement Rule. First argued for by moi in SG3 using missions scripts. Was finally done as ad-hoc rule in SS2 a few months later.
- Standardize shipyard costs based on the CA. Set BCH at 4 to 5 times CA cost. First proposed by moi a couple years ago. Finally done in GW dynas.
That's all I can think of right now. And, there's a lot of EEK features missing, blah, blah, etc. So, there's a lot more to do. I want a fixed SQL server kit before I do anything about it though.
There are also a few ideas built into EEK missions by Dizzy/Corbomite (randomized map terrain), Chuut (Red Alert auto-start), and many others.
Some ideas I did not like, stood my ground on against some pretty nasty, somewhat immature, peer pressure, and, sure enough, these ideas did eventually go the way of the Do-Do:
- Configurable missions. Too many robustness risks. Not really necessary with the way you can use shiplist.txt to manipulate settings
- DIP. You don't vet the Techies. You take what you can get and be glad you did. A lot of Techies avoided DIP cuz they did not feel it was right that the casual players could have membership voting power on them. Plus, you're sticking in way too many cooks. A total warping of priorities there.