true, thats why i have defined it as an interesting twist. The AI alone would be difficult

definatley difficult (rephrase from earlier statement), but you could think of it as, the more of the modules you have, the more soldiers to takeover the ship. And then the military funding (or lack of in some cases) would affect how many people are on board the vessel getting boarded, eg. if the funding is good you have 50 people on board against 20 invaders? but if you dont have the funding, you have a skeleton crew of say 8 people against 20. Adds to the financial planning and strategy required to win. Then have some algorithms that basically look at who has more forces, this will be normally how a battle is won.

A simpler example of that statement is the planet invasion from gal civ 1 on traditional warfare, maybe programmed with a few random events that can affect the battle (Warp Core blowing up certainley would affect it, 1 in 1000000 chance i think)

But what if in the future, they just used AI controlled ships! Moment someone tries to board, it just self-destructs.

here's an idea

One man could board the other ship and walk around all over the ship shooting alien monsters with various weapons that he would have available. He could find goodies along the way like health paks and stims.

here's an idea One man could board the other ship and walk around all over the ship shooting alien monsters with various weapons that he would have available. He could find goodies along the way like health paks and stims.

Thank You for the input, i expected to have many posts like this by now. Apparently i was wrong since there is only one, but for future reference to that comment, here is my opinion.

You are entitled to your thoughts as well as I am entitled to mine. Strategy is the name of the game, and i am not trying to deviate in any way from that. This is simply a new plane of strategical thinking. Every time you decide on a strategy to attempt to win, the AI attempts to respond in what it views as the best manner. Here is a new plane of thought. True there are some ideas that we have gone to the limit off, looked inside of and thought of what they could do, and made treaties to never use such devestating things (nuclear bomb was the example i was thinking of). As far as the actual implementation of it into the game, wheather you use it or not is YOUR choice, is it part of your strategy or not? Does the AI use it against you or not? The way I have proposed it is stating it as an addition to combat, if you chose to use it or not is entierly your choice. You dont like the thought of having it in the game? Fine, dont use it in your game. But there might be some that want to add the extra plan of strategy and thought to the experience. Which is what GalCiv has always been to me, an experience.

Dont assume i am angry or displeased. This was ment as a cival and friendly disscusion of possible expansion.

interesting, another take on the same topic. But look at it from this point of view. You would have no ideas on how to manufacture it. Just what it looks like in the end. could be a risk of doing that would be to build a prototype ship with that tech, but it explodes because of one of those steps that was taken during manufacturing. Perhaps a random algorithm to determine wheather the ship gives up a tech or not, which would open a screen asking if you want to make a prototype of it. Then if you hit accept, you gain the tech, a test item is made, and is tested at which point the random algorithm could determine if it was a success or not. This technique for gaining technology could also be applied to the first method of ships surrender. Certainly would be another way for war like races (drenigin, korx, etc) to evolve themselves.

This idea is not a new one for a space empire game.

The game, Masters of Orion II, had a ship boarding system that was not too complex, but fun. In that you could build your ships with components to increase the amount of troops onboard. When you boarded a ship, you could try to capture it or raid it. Raiding it meant destroying some of the systems on board. I beleive that Galactic Civ II could easily incorperate this into it, for a game like MOOII to do it (very old game) they should have no problem doing it for this game.

I find it easier to board one of those mini freighters and you take the BC the route was worth for that turn. I can see a takeover that turns a damaged ship into a remote controlled bomb and have it ram an enemy ship.

Nah, if anyone should do that, it should be the pirates.........