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rlane / Oort-legacy

Space fleet programming game
http://oort.lefora.com
GNU General Public License v2.0
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add refueling to carrier #4

Closed rlane closed 13 years ago

austinjames314 commented 13 years ago

Would this involve docking? If ships can dock with the carrier, then can they stay docked? If so, how many can be held? Or would this be something more like getting within a certain distance of the carrier and staying there for a period of time?

rlane commented 13 years ago

I'm not sure, I've thought about the alternatives a little. Docking could make things more complicated by making us keep track of the ships that are docked and handling edge cases like the carrier exploding. I think either automatic refueling within a small range or a special refuel (repair?) beam.

austinjames314 commented 13 years ago

On one hand, docking lots of fighters and being able to launch them all at once has awesome on its side. But then there is also mass tracking to take care of, as well as the points you mentioned.
On the other hand a repair/refuel beam has functional simplicity on its side. It comes down to a game design decision. I vote docking personally, as my preference is towards more awesome, complexity be damned.