Gotcha, yes. So basically what you suggest is make part 2 a "race for prestige"? Will prestige be the way to measure the factions' performance against each other? Cheers, Exactly! Sorry I didn't word it well. Part 2 would be a race for prestige rather than there being a major defining vic...

Or you could (as the U.S. or Soviets) choose not to use the shuttle and be an underdog, possibly losing part 2, but maybe succeed in the long run (part 3) but still being at a disadvantage due to the research and technology you would be missing out from not researching the shuttle. Sorry, what do y...

Yes, from a gameplay point of view we'll definitely need to find a good reason for the players to go for the Space Shuttle route. I believe this will be tied up to the political dimension of the game, where assembling the station by using the Space Shuttle might be more expensive but, at the same t...

If competition mode is continued into part 2 and 3. I was thinking that instead of it being completely linear like the USSR vs. US, the sides could expand to East vs. West, with the East composing of USSR/Russia, China, India missions and the West composing of U.S., EU and Japanese missions. There c...