Topic: Starting condition "Discoverer"

kaputtnik wrote:

Just an idea:

Start a game only with ships on the Ocean, instead of having an already built headquarter. All players are starting at the same spot and each player has to sail the sea to find a good starting point.

What do you think of this idea?

I've already thought about creating a map which approximates this situation as close as possible. Why? Because this is a typical beginning in the game "Anno 1602" and it could be fun to have that also in Widelands.

So I think that the idea could be nice. A starting condition would be better than to implement this by maps indeed...

And this reminds me at something (suggestion): Maybe it should be possible that expedition ships can load additional wares and workers - because they have space for that. This could be achieved by new buttons at the ports. (The ship should then be able to wait at the port until it's finished)

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I see one problem with my idea: Building a port takes a lot of time, so in the beginning it get quite boring until the port get built. A solution might be to have two ships: So during port building a player can explore further with the second ship.

And this reminds me at something (suggestion): Maybe it should be possible that expedition ships can load additional wares and workers - because they have space for that. This could be achieved by new buttons at the ports. (The ship should then be able to wait at the port until it's finished)

So one can also load some soldiers and additional wares to build up a first sentry. In this case a ships capacity should be restricted, imho.

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kaputtnik wrote:

I see one problem with my idea: Building a port takes a lot of time, so in the beginning it get quite boring until the port get built. A solution might be to have two ships: So during port building a player can explore further with the second ship.

Maybe. Or speeding up the game just solves the problem (eventually)

And this reminds me at something (suggestion): Maybe it should be possible that expedition ships can load additional wares and workers - because they have space for that. This could be achieved by new buttons at the ports. (The ship should then be able to wait at the port until it's finished)

So one can also load some soldiers and additional wares to build up a first sentry.

Wouldn't that be good? So why are you against it?

einstein13 wrote:

3 . The Nile (https://wl.widelands.org/maps/the-nile-2rc1/), just because it is good map .

I would even say that it is a very good map. Ice Wars too, and this one would also be possible

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seems a good idea. Only problem I can see, it's too random. you pick the right direction, you are fine, you pick wrong, you lose one hour before you can settle anything, or you get a small island without resources. Unless you know in advance where you want to go, in which case you may as well have the headquarter already built

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king_of_nowhere wrote:

seems a good idea. Only problem I can see, it's too random. you pick the right direction, you are fine, you pick wrong, you lose one hour before you can settle anything, or you get a small island without resources. Unless you know in advance where you want to go, in which case you may as well have the headquarter already built

This might be mitigated somewhat by having lots of port spaces

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