Emperor L
[ Posts : 1237 ]
 | [Post Date: 27-Aug-2008 23:14]
A little while back you said you were going to remake the galaxy map.
Anyway, just a few ideas.
Firstly, right now I think the game interface looks really good, and the new buttons on the top look nice. I like the light blue bit that marks the current page. Makes me wish everything was highlighted blue 
But anyway, its quite often in games like this that the map lets everything down, so I was thinking a bit about it.
Firstly, instead of a free zooming map, could it be made more as separate levels, each level being its own map, and having more detail than the last. Sort of like DQ:E had, but instead of having to reload the page each time you move on the map, the whole map is shown, but is just larger for each level.
Firstly the highest level could have just small stars marked, and maybe mark these to show explored stars, and allied, enemy, neutral and own colonies present. Bit like the map in DQ:E, except the stars should be bit bigger, and the right size and color for their class. Almost like looking at the galaxy from far away. With a few marks on it of things.
Next level could be the same, but more zoomed in, and also mark allied and own ships, and any enemy/neutral fleets around stars etc.
Next could be more like the sector map in DQ:E. A full screen shows maybe 2 or 3 quadrants wide and high, and this has all the details, including enemy ships that are moving and everything else like that. It should be a huge map, and so would be hard and long to search the entire map. But possible if you want to.
Anyway, that light blue glow is nice, and if something like that could be used to mark the relation of empires in a star, it would look really good pobably. Instead of a ring around the star, the glow from it could mark the type of empire in it. Of course the glow would be the color of the relation.
Also, instead of having a triangle by the star to mark ships present. Maybe have a line going to the star, and a box showing the symbol, and the name of the empire who owns the fleet, have several if several empires fleets are in the star. The symbol on the planets button at the top looks exactly how I mean.
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