[chief1983]

I know, that's why I put up a picture of the 'cannon', to highlight more clearly the difference.  The little smiley faces, while heeee-larious, don't make a big enough statement

[Rhymes]

Too true.

[rsaxvc]

Hokay, so here's my driving idea behind the big galaxy map, although it may not be doable within limitations of the game framework.

Each Bubblything is a campaign
Each Box is a mission.

I've fleshed out a couple of campaigns, but you should get the idea. The goal is to let the player have some non-linear choose-your-own adventure time, but everyone is going to get the same ending, and same missions.

As the player completes campaigns, the big galaxy map will change to reflect the available campaigns and their locations.

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[TopAce]

You do realize that, to do that, we'll need a ****load of ships. Currently, we'd be happy to release any sort of mission.

[rsaxvc]

I know. This would require a ton of fighters, bespin, DS1, DS2, and many more.
It would also make a huge game ( about 40 missions, assuming we add no more campaigns)

Maybe it's a bit of a pipe dream, but I bet it would be pretty cool.

[chief1983]

It is definitely something that probably warrants a chapter-style release.

[Black Wolf]

Did the Civil War in Tion actually happen? I have a campaign layout I'm working on centreing in there, and I don't want step on any canon toes (or Cannon toes, because then I'd get shot ).

[rsaxvc]

Short answer: No, its all fictional.
Long answer: I made up the campaigns for the galaxy map

The flowchart, however, is all from wookiepedia.

[rsaxvc]

So is this good? Is this bad? Should I FRED up one of the smaller campaigns with dummy missions? Give it up and play solitaire?

[TopAce]

FRED them with what ships?

[brandx0]

As I am constantly reminding people of this, I might as well do so again:

Fate of the Galaxy, at this point, has none of the following:
1) Completed models or effects
2) Game Balance
3) Usable tabling or a consistent flight model or game feel
4) Really any basis to begin FREDing with.

[Mobius]

Shouldn't the team focus on the main campaigns and leave the others to fans?

[TopAce]

Let's get something to play with first, then discuss the shoulds, the shouldn'ts, the musts and mustn'ts.

[chief1983]

The balancing and tabling has been improving behind the scenes, there's been quite a bit accomplished recently since SVN was set up.  Some new code features are being worked on, and hopefully these will allow us to at least get some decent tables ready for the ships and weapons.