Improving IK

[sparrowhawk]

You know, there are quite a few things that annoy me about IK, and here's what I'd like to see done:

- improved user interface. It's all too spaghetti like at the moment

- New option for ships: "Guard". You send your ships to an island and they stay there, helping in the defence.

- New option for ships: "Intercept" - you see an enemy fleet approaching, you send yours out to take them out, or at least try to sink the cats if you can

- More techs

- a mechanism so that longevity of membership does not automatically mean invincibility. It's rediculous that players can jsu amass infinite resources and clobber relative newbs. There should be scope for sabotage, etc.

I wonder whether we should make a list of what we would like done, including details of suggested implementations, and send it on to the IK admins?

[sparrowhawk]

Also:

- Administer an alliance members account (so no accusation of multis)

- in-game forum so that people can slag off avinalaff (gods, I dreamt about him last night!)

- admirals can control fleets of allied ships (with owners' permission)

[soiram]

Also:

- Pre-compiled raiding lists (list of isles, assigned resources) so that you don't have to type the same things all the time.

- Tsunami (a random distruction factor which becomes more possible as you grow up).

[inyati]

I wrote this some time back at our previous forum:

Not sure what type of game you´re really planning on but if its based on Inselkampf, then might I give an opion? What I think is a small flaw in Inselkampf is the trade and economics aspect of the game. Everyone has the same resourses. If there existed lets say Exotic Resourse besides the plain Gold, Stone, and lumber, the game would gain a diferent aspect.
You would need exotic goods to build special buildings. The necessity of Trade would be even more importante, and war could even be more justified.

Summarizing the ideia: every island can extract silver, stone and wood. But each island would have also only one exotic good, like gold (for special buildings) or silk (for better sails) etc.

Just a thought.
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Players can choose to trade fairly or do war for those goods.

[ashimar]

These are ofcourse excellent ideas and I fully agree with them. Let me state that first off.

By all means should you compile that list and send it A.S.A.P. to the admins of Inselkampf, I'm sure they will love you for it.

And don't be troubled for an instance by that quaint report from your drunken watchtower guy just before you went to bed to dream of YTS this time, claiming he just saw 3000 fleets on the horizon closing in fast ! <rotflol>

[sparrowhawk]

I don't think that they would mind suggestions, as long as they were covered in an inch think layer of compliments too!

[SkulkrinBait]

Try to make the ideas as easy to understand by someone who hasn't got English as their native tongue too, Ringy could probably compile a good list