Bos Wars

Bos Wars is great fun. It's very quick to pick up, but there's lots to learn to master the game.

The key areas for improvement are:

• • A slower slow game speed

  • A faster fast game speed

  • Random map generator

  • Navy

  • Differentiated sides

  • Ability to set harvesters to energy only/magma only

  • Screen resolution/size

  • Tech levels

  • More unit stats: speed, rate of fire, etc

  • Transparency on difficulty levels

  • Ability to build and destroy bridges

I would suggest that the random map generator is probably the priority for maximising replayability. I think a random map generator works best when the player has a lot of control.

• • map size

  • % of map for each terrain type (including bridges)

  • number of players

  • starting resources per player

  • starting units per player

  • tech level per player (i.e. ability to restrict the build options per player)

  • number of magma sites (of each intensity)

  • amount of map known (%)

  • fog of war on/off

  • magma sites near starting positions or spread out

  • bottlenecking (minimum width of the land route between the players starting positions) (zero where only a sea route)

  • starting positions (corners/sides/centre/random)

  • victory conditions

Types of random maps:

• • Mirror map

  • Level where can only get to enemy by harvesting energy/magma