is EAW Galaxy map turn based?

[Zerogravity]

hi, i am mallen02 from the lucas arts forums. A question came up earlier today about if the Galaxy map on EAW is turn based, i came here to ask this because it appears alot of you went to E3.

 

So i was wondering...is it turn based or real time?

 

here is the discussion link: http://forums.lucasarts.com/thread.jspa?messageID=990579?

 

 

thanks,

marcus

[Ghostly_Substance]

welcome to the boards Well its all real time from what I saw. No turn based stuff.

[Zerogravity]

awesome stuff, thanks for the quick reply

[Ghostly_Substance]

you welcome

[Seewolf]

i hope it will be turn based like Repellion, with some Turnspeeds.

i will not build and send fleets on 40 planets in realtime

[Foshjedi2004]

I think the Ship and Forceas area should be in Real time but the Exterior stuff should be turn based

[Seewolf]

you mean a turn might be 5 minutes, Every 5 minutes you get you credits.

But fleed managing (Sending fleet to other planets) should be in realtime?

[Foshjedi2004]

Basically Yes that is what i believe should happen. Like Rebellion/ Supremacy

[Seewolf]

the Question is, if i can send troops in realtime and get every x minutes my ressources, how long will be a ai battle take.

[Foshjedi2004]

Every Battle will be a different length they will depend on force sizes and ship types!

[Seewolf]

mhh what happens when i have 1 corvete and the enemy 1 indertikter cruiser, my corvet cant destroy the indertikter and cant escape in the hyperspace. How long will it take, to leave the range of the inderticter cruiser with the normal speed?

[Foshjedi2004]

The corvette would lose. It can't withstand the firepower of an interdictor.

[Zerogravity]

i think i would liek it if it was like Rebellion, where you could adjust the time so it doesn't go by really fast or really slow. but the battles be real time. doesn't matter really, i just dont want to sit there and click end turn and stuff -.-

[Foshjedi2004]

Well i doubt that you'll click to change the time, it'll probably be like you can move a certain number of units per turn, mind you thats just one of my hypothesis'.

[Zerogravity]

hmmm maybe we could implement that question into the interview that is going to mike...

[Foshjedi2004]

When si Mike Getting Back??

[Ghostly_Substance]

From what I seen in E3 demo everything was real time and it was perfectly done.

 

You just tell your ships were to go and they go there. then I think you click on the planet you want to take over and you see your ship(s) end their hyperspace jump at the planet. Then you battle in space then when you win that you go to ground and battle on 2 maps and its taken over. If oyu lose it goes back to space then battle/planetery map. You can see what ships went were and its like a pause menu from my guess. After each battle you get credits like 400 from Bespin and 200 from Tatooine or whatever.

 

well maybe there should be a option for Real time and turn-based since both side of the spectrum of gamers would be happy

 

Note: This is what I saw and its what I think its going to work out.

[Foshjedi2004]

Youm have a good plan there Ghostly

[Ghostly_Substance]

Yup, what do you like better ?

 

my opinion

Turn based like Rome Total War and Civilization 3 ? Its slow and annoying since your turns get wasted. Real Time you can do whatever you want and dont have to wait for other people if its a multi game. Having the freedom to do whatever you want at anytime is better and dont have to wait 4 turns which could have been done 3 minutes before.

[Zerogravity]

i liek the fact you get to hyperspace in between planets and actually see this, w/o having to end turn

 

btw, how long would they stay in hyper space until they arrived at a planet, is it like in rebellion where the farther the destination the longer they remain in hyperspace?

[Ghostly_Substance]

Deleted it as you said, well I donno lol, nice question to ask, would be nice seeing your ships begin then stay and end their hyper jump. Lol this might sound nuts but I wonder if the devs if they can make a small game mode were you go against star trek ships lool. Star Wars vs Star Trek lol. an unlockable mode. Would be to much for a first game but would crush the RTS and raise it ? Dont really need it tho but would add to the fun in a way.

[Zerogravity]

in a few years when i start going to E3, i am going to write out alot of questions so that i can test them in the games, so i would know everything without having to ask

or leave uninformed.

[Ghostly_Substance]

Good idea lol. Then post what you got answered and what not. Well it would loosen up the question being released to the devs but the devs ignore the question anyways so might as well find out what they got to show Cant wait for this game now.

[Zerogravity]

LoL, unlucky for us, it'll still be a year till we play it!

[Ghostly_Substance]

indeed, was it just me or did this forum go down for 5 min ?