practice/ideas/space_game.txt

Multiple factions
Turn based

What about FF style combat

Dipomacy
Can form alliances
Can request:
	accompany
	defend (area)
	attack (area or faction)
	break alliance
	good will (send or demand help)
	Open borders
	non-agression pacts
	trade agreemens
	embargo

Each faction has a cap ship (think titans)
ships, especialy big ones, are rare.
Even with small ships, a fleet of 70 or so would be considered huge

optional deep hex, as in, I go into combat on a hex and transfer to its own hex grid
has environment things like clouds to increase evasion with risk and what not

optional action fight, fly around hex area takes x amount of turns or whatever
optional quick fight, still takes turns

Possible combat like windward (prolly not hex based in this case, but mehbe)
Boarding possible

warp is multi hex movements. 1 turn to charge and 1 to halt

auto trade among planets of some sort (supply routes?)

Grid hexagon prefered.. Make grid library

lib can make square or flat or point top hex

is 0,0 top left? or is 0+0+0 the center?

trading
	some planets produce certain things
	randomized changes in goods based on those produced goods every so often (mothly?)

Beyond combat, each hex could devulge into its own temporary (think instance) hex grid
for things like combat, exploration, and mining

Possibly have ruler and non-ruler positions (think ROTK)

ability to poison planets (attack planet populations, why? I don't know
													 perhaps to use as a threat to run away)

Does the player choose a race?
	If so, let's have some races that are significantly different.
		Example, a race that only inhabits suns and cannot live in other environments.
		Other environment specific races.

Upgradeable ships?
Inventory on ships?
Is leveling part of the game?
Can we target enemy subsystems?
Can we do a lot of stuff on the planets?
Do we have fuel?
Do I control only myself? Or do I control others? 
	I think 4x is the way to go, perhaps we can piolt a single ship directly
	at some time. Or only or cap ship, but probably not.
Is this a numbers game when it comes to combat? I don't think it should be.
Should the main point of this game be economics? Do we want Trinket style combat?
	How about command and conquer?
	How about incorporate? (Think, diplo/force convince people to join our alliance)
Do we have tech trees? Some other form of tech?
	Do we have randomized tech? Randomized choices from a pool of tech when certain
		requirements are met?
		Do we have levels of tech? Is it linear only?
			Perhaps we have engine tech that gives plus 3,
			 and other that gives plus 2. These could just be addative, and thus
			 no worry about price
Hex grid should not be visible (outside of combat anyway, but toggelable anyway, why not?)
	Players can only go to stars/planets, not arbitrary places in spaces, but hexes DO exit and will be
		used to determine distances. Actually, I do want arbitrary places, especially if we don't have fuel.
		Also, use a range mech. I can go x distance from one of my, or my allies' planets/refuling stations.
		Have a warning when a ship is sent out too far to make it back for fuel

Do we RNG everything? I think so. Procedual generation seems to be key for this type of game to stay
  exciting.

Do we have colony ships?

Do we pay maitainence on ships?

Do we just move star to star and then each star has its own grid with planets?

Do we see the whole map right away? Or do we send scouts, and then you can see planets
	within range of planets you've explored
Do we have fog of war?

Do we have hover description things like EU4?

I'm thinking work like this.

Implement grid system
be able to get coors of any hex on mouse over
Put a player out there that can move grid to grid
Impletment graphics on that grid system (even if it's just black with specs on it)


Perhaps take the game in stages.
First, basically just a guy that goes around hexes that can do combat.
Another version adds in planetary combat.
Next version we add planetary trading
Next version we add customizeable ships
another version adds real diplo
Another version adds planetary devlopment.
Another version adds tech. This is going to be hard because I don't want a boring old tree


NOTES;
I'm thinking no player controled combat. Perhas influenced, but not conrolled.


Federations:
  If a federation is able to take in planets to the point where they surround another federations planet,
	  they have the ability to evect the people of said planet, and take it over.


Can happen upon battles that NPC's are currently in and join on either side, reguardless of reputation