[Vegastrike-devel] More story related stuffs

[Micah J W. <mx...@po...>]

So I have an outline for what I think is a pretty decent long story line
which could work for a single player game. Some thoughts I've been
having: 

The main issue I've been having from a pure game-play perspective is how
to keep the privateer, free-form feel through out. I'm having trouble
finding a way to prevent the second half of the plot from being one
mission after another in the Wing-Commander vein. Hopefully clever
mission planning and more suble ways of getting missions (e.g. from
characters at bars) should ease that a bit. 

A more technical type of thing is how to have more complex interactions.
It would be really cool to be able to do all of the base-type dialogs
through python, so things like "cut-scenes" and what have you could be
integrated without adding overhead to the back-end. I started thinking
about this 'cause I think I've found a way to start the game without
resorting to the "your uncle dies... you get amnesia... " round of stuff
which similar games resort to. You win your ship at cards. But you suck
at cards... and thus the plot is started. However, I think it would be
really cool to be able to actually play that game (e.g. black-jack w/
computer sticking at less than 10, and going over on everything else)

Anyhow, attached should be a revised version of the weapon script...
first one sortof didn't get all the attributes 'cause I only looked at
the first weapon in the file (oops)

-- 
Micah J Waldstein
mx...@po...
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