Originally posted by the scorpion:


however, as i mentioned above, if the strategic map was externalised to the extend to define enemy placements and accesibility of each sector, we could easily separate sectors from each other making them inaccesible (means you only get here by teleport)and have, say, 2-4 sector long mini campaigns. IMO, if we need a story/ mission for each sector, that`s too much. But what could be done is for instance isolating a city. Now the mission is to conquer the city, free a hostage (EPC) and convince the head miner (i don`t see why regular income should be disabled if the player has to rest anyway so there will be time compression. You could hardcode that mines will run out fast or the player loses too much loyalty if he is just waiting for more cash (yes, loyality doesn`t need to be deleted either as it won`t drop due to no counterattacks and is used in various npc scripts and game progress triggers)

oh, btw i contacted the programmer of the project i mentioned above so don`t be surprised if he`ll knock on your door