Time travelling RTS (Achron) accepting Pre-orders

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by gridspy • 17 years ago

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roundsquare2• 17 years ago

Interesting... a nice stab but I think there is a critical aspect missing.

t = 0 No one is attacking me

t = 1 I attack someone

t = 2 They wish they attacked me

t = 3 They jump back to t = 0 to attack me

t = 4 (0') They attack me, but there is no "me" to defend. The troops will just do their default actions.

So you have a lot of play against AI.

gridspy2• 17 years ago

When they move to T0 and attack you, the changes caused by this attack move forward to the present in a "time wave" - you see these changes and decide to intervene by moving to T=1 and ordering your troops to intercept their troops.

The effects of this also move forward in a time wave, which they can see approaching on a little summary at the bottom of the screen.

As you modify the past you use up "chrono-energy" limiting the amount of influence you can have.

See http://chronofrag.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=36 for some more time travel strategies.

See http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=achron+youtu... for some videos of achron.

roundsquare2• 17 years ago

Yeah, I understand. But the problem is that if t = 0 and t = 1 are far apart, then by the time I jump back to t = 1' and defend, I could have lost a bunch of troops (for example).

I'm not saying it doesn't work, but I'm trying to think of this from a more "realistic" (within the scope of a time travel video game) point of view. In theory, at t = 0' (before I've jumped back) you'd want my troops controlled by someone with my skill, but not with my future knowledge.

Lets say I'm a great strategist, so good in fact that even when I'm attacked at t = 0' I would be good enough to fed off the attack. But, if I was asleep till t = 1' (as is essentially the case in what you are saying) I will get decimated. Jumping back to t = 1' doesn't help me then.

Obviously I have to accept limitations based on the fact that the players are in fact temporal beings, so I'm not saying the game mechanic is bad. I'm just stating a limitation.

Time travelling RTS (Achron) accepting Pre-orders

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