Freedom in the Galaxy

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Freedom in the Galaxy

• Province and Galaxy Group Presentation

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Denise FeddersenJoe SandersJames BurkeDavid
Pape
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The GalacticMap

• The provinces are color coded.

• A label is placed over each Star System to
  provide a click-able area.

• The maps are in a tabbed pane so any map can be
  viewed at any time.

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The ProvinceMap

• The planets in each Star System are displayed in
  more detail.

• The flags to the top right of the planets show
  PDB status and planet loyalty.

• The Rebel Secret Base is represented by the
  blades icon (courtesy of Aileen Platt).

• The Planet Secrets are represented by a lock
  above the planet. Locked for unrevealed, and
  unlocked for revealed.

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The ProvinceMap

• All of the icons can be changed to reflect
  changes in planet detail.

• The default map settings will be initialized
  after the selection of the game type at the start
  of the game.

• The map will be used by the Planet Control Group
  to display shifts in loyalty and planets in
  rebellion.

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Galactic Events

• Galactic Events are numbered 98 126 in the
  original game.

• They are started during the Galactic Event Phase
  of each Galactic game turn by a randomly
  generated number between 1 and 29.

• The effects of the current Galactic Event are
  displayed in a text box and the effects are
  carried out immediately, though some last the
  duration of the game turn.

• Each Galactic Event has a method that will be
  called when it is initialized. Some will set a
  flag to be checked for during calls to other
  methods (ie. Movement or spending force points).
  Others will shift planet loyalty or distribute
  wounds to characters.

• Though we do not know the exact detail by which
  these will be implemented, we do know they extend
  into many other classes.

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Strategic Assignments

• The strategic assignment deck will be randomly
  ordered at the beginning of the game.

• Each strategic assignment will restrict the
  movement of the imperial player.

• At the beginning of each imperial movement phase
  a new strategic assignment will be selected for
  that game turn.

• On the fourteenth turn after the last strategic
  assignment is put in play the computer will
  automatically generate a 6 card deck to use for
  the remainder of the game.

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Rebel Secret Base

• The Player will be prompted at the beginning of
  the game which of 18 plants to use as the secret
  base.

• That planet will then be marked with the blades
  icon as mentioned before.

• If at any point during the game if the secret
  base is revealed the center dot of the icon will
  change color as indication.

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Repairing Possessions

• Repairing possessions will be handled by keeping
  track of the characters and any inoperative or
  damaged possessions.

• The player will only have to pick which
  possession to repair and which character to use.

• If the possession cant be repaired it wont be
  listed to the character.

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Force Points

• The force points will be used by the imperial and
  rebel players.

• The player will be allowed to choose what to
  spend the force points on.

• Force points can also be spent to increase the
  level of the PDB, this will also include raising
  a downed PDB.

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Movement Requirements

• Assumes that each province, system, planet, orbit
  box, and environ are stored and doubly-linked to
  each other (i.e. planets to systems, environs,
  and orbit boxes, environs to planets, etc).

• Requires Environ to be a separate class with one
  Unit type pointer per environ size, and for each
  Unit class to have one Environ type pointer
  (assuming that orbit box and drift qualify as
  Environ types).

• Assumes the Environ Unit Type pointers are stored
  in an array and set to NULL when the environ is
  not full. (i.e. an environ of size 5 has an
  array of 5 unit pointers. If there is one unit
  in the environ, then 4 pointers are set to NULL
  and one points at the unit.)

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Movement Steps

• Player selects unit or unit stack to move.
  Player selects planet to move to, and a dialog
  box pops up offering Orbit Box (grayed out if
  non-mobile unit or character without spaceship)
  and Planet Environs (grayed out if full of units)
  available to move into.

• Computer makes all necessary hyper jump,
  interception, and raking attack calculations for
  movement. After end point has been calculated
  (i.e. does the unit make the move to the
  destination or stop due to interception?), then
  the Environ pointer of the Unit or each Unit in
  the unit stack is set to the end point, and the
  Unit pointers of the end point are set to point
  at each unit in the stack. Should too many units
  be moved to the environ, the user will be
  prompted to select which ones will remain in the
  previous location, and which will move into the
  destination environ.

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Imperial Resources and Taxation

• During the Imperial AIs Resource Phase the AI
  will tax the province designated as currently
  taxable, assuming that the Throne Planet, First
  Province Capitol Planet, and the Capitol Planet
  of the province being taxed are controlled by the
  Empire.

• The AI will iteratively climb through the planet
  pointers within the province data type of the
  province being taxed, calculating the benefit of
  a loyalty loss versus resource gain in the
  current turn. Such calculations will be based
  upon well-thought-out and amazingly ingenious
  algorithms carefully designed and crafted by the
  AI team.

• After the province has been taxed, the
  maintenance fees attribute of the imperial player
  class (which is modified by the resource
  expenditure class upon purchase of units and
  PDBs) is subtracted from the current total
  resource points. The Imperial AI will then make
  any purchases which the AI team deems it should
  make, based upon excruciatingly detailed analysis
  of current game states, and probability plots of
  near infinite possible future game states.

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Planet Secrets

• Requires an integer attribute PlanetSecretID on
  each planet containing values from -1 to 32.
• -1 is an unitialized value and should not occur
  after the game begins.
• 0 is a planet which does not have a planet
  secret associated with it.
• 1 to 16 is an unrevealed planet secret.
• 17 to 32 is a revealed planet secret whose
  identity may be calculated in code by using a mod
  16 operation.

• Each action which might possibly reveal a planet
  secret will make a call to RevealPlanetSecret(),
  and any action which might be modified by a
  planet secret will make a call to
  ExecutePlanetSecret().

• Planet Secrets are currently being revamped and
  redesigned. I will contact any groups who may
  need to make a call to either of the above
  methods in any of their code.

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Missions

• For galactic and provincial missions, we will use
  the GUI designed by the Missions group.
• In the Province and Galaxy Games, the players may
  have their characters perform all of the missions
  available in the Star System Game, along with a
  few additional missions.
• Therefore, we will need a few methods added to
  the Missions class. Some of those methods are
• summonSovereign()
• spaceshipQuest()
• questionPrisoner()
• stealEnemyResources()
• gatherInformation()
• Since we are simply adding these methods to their
  class, it should be a fairly easy process. No
  major modifications are needed.

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Sovereigns

• There will be a separate Sovereign class. This
  class will be responsible for the methods and
  attributes associated with this type of
  personage.
• Note Once summoned, adds special military units
  to Player. Player may also use Sovereign as a
  limited character.
• The Sovereign class will need the following
  attributes
• name
• type
• combatRating
• enduranceRating
• leadershipRating
• spaceLeadershipRating
• starSystem
• environID
• isAlive
• On each planet, we will need an EnvironID, which
  will identify the environ planet. The reason
  is that a Sovereign is assigned to a specific
  environ.
• Basically, the summonSovereign mission method
  would perform (if successful)
• Sovereign mySovereign new Sovereign(environID)
• This would make it easy to access information, by
  simply using mySovereign.name,
  mySovereign.type, mySovereign.combatRating, etc.

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Atrocity Atrocity Units

• ATROCITY UNITS We will need to add an Atrocity
  Unit to the Military Unit class. This may be as
  simple as changing the type attribute to
  Atrocity. The Atrocity Unit has an Environ
  strength of 0 and a space strength of 2.
  Imperial player only.
• ATROCITIES We will need an Atrocity class.
  This will handle the different types of
  atrocities that the Imperial player may commit.
• Methods to be used
• sneakAttack()
• chemicalBomb()
• hypnosisGas()
• strafe()
• haltPlanetaryRotation()

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Credits

• We would like to thank space.com and the Hubble
  telescope for the use of their lovely graphics.