Battle Saver Ideas

[Ttech]

As I was staring at the Battle Saver I thought it would be cool to have key controls in the screen saver much like the game had and then thought wouldn't it be fun to be able to control what ships you like and dislike so you always have the ships you want. Going further with this idea, 'great' battles it might be cool if they could be uploaded to a central server (binary data?) and downloaded so others can replay epic battles and then play their own. Along these lines maybe someday the processes for generating the ships and having them battle could be sent via server to clients to have computers battle each other. I realize most of these ideas are quite far fetched and probably not possible in any near future. However the screensaver might be a place to test out transcendence's network capabilities? Maybe? Anyway, look forward to critiques! Cheers.

[shanejfilomena]

i find myself often reaching for the "A" key when the Battle Screen is sitting on an Ares Cannon doing nothing
But I THINK that RPC has given us a tool for this idea in his CSC Luna : http://xelerus.de/index.php?s=mod&id=1006

How it can be worked into the Battle Screen I do not know because I do not know how or where to try to access those AI orders.
but if you can take the POV ( point of view item in the Mod ) and it's simple function controls, run a screen recorder : i think you can get a nice show to watch.

As for THEN going to generate battles......i think there is a Dock Screen with a Space Battle feature : so IF in the user control panel of the game you run that Dock Screen to control what shows on the Battle Screen or Screen saver......the POV to move your view aroiund from ship to ship.....WOW......I think players would get addicted to that and it would be ALMOST as fun as the actual game .

[RPC]

Nice idea, I think it could be turned into a mod, with all of the preset battle configs, but I'm, unsure that every battle will end the same. With T's reliance on the RNG, I highly doubt that each battle will end the same.

As for the feasibility, we already have the ability to upload data to Xelerus, so why not upload battle configs?

[Dedalo]

I agree, be able to control the parameters of the screen saver would become very fun!

[erik dela cruz]

Yep Ttech it's a great idea. Thumbs up! I'm looking forward to that.