Weekly Update - Week 1.

[Myxir]

that sounds like we'll experience some epic showdown battles for some planets while everything else gets blasted away by the enemy super weapons
epic!

btw... does that mean you can compleately seal off an enemy/own sector of the game, and just wait on the "hidden" planets nobody can access from the outside anymore? eventually there should be new routes appearing once a planet is gone, but maybe it's intended

[Ze_PilOt]

Yes. Actually the current idea for cybran is to disconnect planets from the network by destroying gate links. A planet entirely disconnected return to neutral state.

If a faction ends up sealed off, they will auto-capitulate to the bigger empire (so you will play on their side, but as "slave")

They are called game enders because they are supposed to end the game in a low number of days

[ColonelSheppard]

i guess UEF will get Black Sun?

EDIT: oops i didnt saw it

[Ze_PilOt]

ie. you will spend point to fire black sun and destroy any planet in the network..

[Ze_PilOt]

I'm not that far from the mockup done in photoshop :

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Tomorrow, I will add the network creation to the editor, and I will be almost done with it..

http://users.edpnet.be/zepilot/gwPreview4.zip

What's left for this week :
- While the zooming is working as expected, I'm not entirely happy with de-zooming. I will spend some time smoothing that.
- I need to implement the right-mouse button for panning (should be trivial, it was done in an earlier test but I need to smooth it), and implement keyboard arrows too.
- The lighting is not done, that's why I'm not showing anything now
- I need to draw the planet influences and networks. I've already have all the 2d polygons, I just need to extrude them.

[Gyle]

Yes. Actually the current idea for cybran is to disconnect planets from the network by destroying gate links. A planet entirely disconnected return to neutral state.

If a faction ends up sealed off, they will auto-capitulate to the bigger empire (so you will play on their side, but as "slave")

They are called game enders because they are supposed to end the game in a low number of days

If a planet gets sealed off perhaps factions could pay the nomads ( mercs ) for a lift so they can assualt the planet directly