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Originally Posted by keltos01
…a game where what you do can influence/change the course of history...
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This impact of a single boat won't change the overall history but it should change some future battles.
I have two ideas how to implement this:
V1:
The crazy idea to implement historical accurate ship positions where it's possible. And to calculate different results of "offscreen" battles in the background if a ship is missing or survived because of the players impact before. So sinking a single battleship or let a german ship survive should end in a kind of chain reaction.
V2:
each side gets a pool of ships based on historical production rate of different ship types at that time. The game calculates the overall High Command AI for a set interval in the background and simulates results of battles by estimated chances (a bit like strategists war games would calculate it). You sink a destroyer and it's gone from the enemy pool… as a result you might have an extra U-Boat someday in your wolf pack because it survived, or this extra U-Boat sinks a battleship that you won't see in game anymore etc.
V2 would be much more dynamic and MUCH more easier to implement. V1 offers cheating by well known ship positions at a date.