• Registered: 2011-09-30
  • Posts: 69

Topic: A Meta B. Basin question

Quick, impromptu poll.

Do you prefer bare ship designs, ship designs with some history attached, or the incoherent ramblings of a frustrated writer as he prattles on about the universe that produced these ship designs?

  • Registered: 2005-03-29
  • Posts: 859

Re: A Meta B. Basin question

I do hope that last remark isn't aimed at me...:)

Anyway, I like some notes about the design, because it might help others understand what the intent of the design was, rather than what they think the design was intended to be...

  • Registered: 2010-03-09
  • Posts: 630

Re: A Meta B. Basin question

murtalianconfederacy wrote:

I do hope that last remark isn't aimed at me...:)

If so, I vote for the latter!  big_smile

I just regret I don't have much game time devoted to Starmada, and very rare opponents, in ordre to try your designs.

Marc

  • Registered: 2011-09-30
  • Posts: 69

Re: A Meta B. Basin question

murtalianconfederacy wrote:

I do hope that last remark isn't aimed at me...:)

Only in a "Hey, he's like me!" sort of way, honestly.

I asked because I'd started putting together a framework around which to have some games, and found that I'd invested an entire afternoon in writing over two thousand words about the universe in which my thinly veiled WWII campaigns would appear, including some snippets of fiction that could turn into an epic Honor Harringtonesque seventy-five part series.

Only to discover shortly thereafter that there were disturbing similarities between what I created and the Jovian Chronicles. I'm gonna have to read through that stuff more thoroughly to make sure I didn't psychically plagiarize!**

As a non-sequitur aside, Fighter TL +2 can lead to some serious - SERIOUS - combat rating inflation.

**ETA: Did some reading of the wiki page on Jovian Chronicles, and it looks like I'm in the clear, aside from some disturbingly similar names.

  • Registered: 2009-08-03
  • Posts: 245

Re: A Meta B. Basin question

Interesting thread.

murtalianconfederacy wrote:

Anyway, I like some notes about the design, because it might help others understand what the intent of the design was, rather than what they think the design was intended to be...

We ran into this once, actually.  We tried to have a game where everybody had to use someone else's designs, but ran into problems with understanding the purposes / intended uses different ships were built for, because there were no design notes.  So I concur.

In general, I tend to go with bare designs, but then again, the vast majority of my Basin posts have been huge piles of ships converted from the 40k universe, where there really isn't much fluff to go with the ships, and where I'm not really qualified to speak on the design goals (only conversion notes).  But yeah, I guess I fall into Option 2 - likes design goals / notes, generally skips long histories.