Hello,
I am trying to make a rule set for formations to be usefull and interesting in my current aurora game. I am controlling all the empires in the game, this way I can have a set of rules that all empires will follow.
The basic idea is to limit the amount of ships or tonage that can be in the same fleet and separated forom other fleets by more than 10000 Km. I wan´t it to be hard for a fleet to concentrate all of its missiles on a single fleet at the same time. Since all launching ships are at different positions, missiles should not arrive at the same time. However, with how fast missiles are the distance between the launching ships might have to be to long for this to work, trouble is, this could eliminate the importance of area defence beams (if ships are to separated, they would be outside of the area defence envelope).
I want to have battles where it is not only about when to launch, when to pursue or when to escape. I wan´t my ships to manouver, for relative positions of friendly ships matter and where the enemy formation makes me change mine. This could be achieved by limiting the amount of tons that can be in the same spot (maybe relating said limit to one or two techs). But that would give a very big avantage to missiles, unless we could somehow limit the amount of ships that can launch on a single fleet.
If you have any ideas please let me know!
I am not sure if this is the right forum for this, sorry if it is not.
Finally, it´s been a long time since I wrote in english, I hope everythig is understandable.
