Coming Soon: Sovereignty - Brace For Impact

Ouch...SC is god of creation but not destruction.

So in practice:
WHOOMP
"Hey, you like this?  No?"
 ....
"Ok, I'll put it in the garage."
"Hmm, I need a bigger garage."
WHOOMP

col0005 wrote: Hey the upkeep changing with distance is great, however is there any advantage for conecting Sovereign squares? Clustering cities shouldn't be encoraged more, however it makes a lot of sense for a bonus to be applied to clustering Sovereign squares something along the lines of if there is a solid line of Sovereign squares to a square 3 squares away then distance = 1 and if 2 or more soverign squares are connected then distance = 1 + (distance-1)/n where n is the number of connecting squares

When pathfinding is in place, and places are connected by roads...

... then there's a distinct possibility that connected Sovereign Squares might be cheaper to maintain.

But, again, that's a way away.

I beleive if you compete against someone's Sov  as your army sits there it lowers their Sov lvl and if the Sov lvl drop the structure also drops so when you drop their Sov lvl to 0 it should destroy their structure and you get to start lvling your Sov and building structure to what ever research lvl you have

If you capture the city though you get the research lvls that city has so it wont be a problem

I certantly wouldn't be thinking this would be implemented when sov is released and I've only had a little experience with programming but wouldn't it be possible to get a simmilar results to pathfinding through checks.

Ie
If a sov square is connected to your city it becomes a prime1 sov square
else
If a sov square is connected to a prime1 sov square it  becomes a prime2 sov square
else
If a sov square is connected to a prime2 sov square it too becomes a prime2 sov square
check

If prime2 then Distance = distance + 0.2*(distance-1)
else Distance = distance
check

checks could be made and recorded every time the city creates or destroys a new soverign square.
No prime 1 check is needed as distance will equal 1
Distance is the distance used to determine upkeep
distance is the distance from the city


Edited by col0005 - 12 Jul 2010 at 02:22

just checking to see if we have any news on the updates...getting itchy feet to get started