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[Happy Demon]

Let's see how this will go, let's make a god game.

A god game of sorts, just a bit nerfed.
You'll take control of a weak divine creature (1 in each resource, instead of 10), and will have to work from there.
So, the basics.

Spoiler: A bit of setting (click to show/hide)

The world is mostly empty, there's spots of glowing matter around at genesis, making a sun unnecessary to support life.
But you've only spent an instant in this realm up to now, so there's no telling if the universal mechanics will remain that way for long.
You appear as a newly formed divine creature, but the material you're made of, may differ greatly.
Some would be entirely new creatures, some unable to remember any world other than this one, while others can be made from material of other universes (and maybe even be from other universes).

You have 3 resources, Essence, Manifest, and Power.

Spoiler: Short Explanation on EMP (click to show/hide)

Essence (Body)
This is your body, your being, it protects you from harm, and being around with none will make you vulnerable to attacks.
You can possess creatures to protect you while your Essence is low, it's also the best way to recover Essence.
You use this to make creatures, while making creatures will at first make you vulnerable, it's likely going to be your main source of Essence.
Essence can be recovered by absorbing creatures, but you can only do this one at a time (possessing them).

Manifest (Mind)
This is your will, with which you make great objects and artifacts, but it's not going to do anything alone.
You use this to make planets, stars, and artifacts, but all are reliant on Power to become useful.
Machines can be made with only Manifest, but you need someone or something to operate it.
You recover Manifest with worship.

Power (Soul)
This is your spirit, this gives life to objects made with Manifest, it can also be used alone to destroy, but it wont last very long.
You use this to make planet become seismically active, make stars glow, and artifacts become magical, but that's reliant on Manifest to make it.
You can use it for magic, but it's not going to last long, unless there's something to contain it (living creatures or land can work to do that).
You recover Power with live sacrificial rituals dedicated to you.

At first, you may want to create a planet, give it life, and make a race to worship you, but let's get a bit technical on what that means.

Spoiler: Creation Templates (click to show/hide)

Planet (Manifest + Power)
The standard template for planets is 1 size, this makes it have an around 100 000 km² area, enough to support your race.
This also makes it automatically rotate and get a rather Terran geography.

The standard template for planet activity is 1 energy (thermal), this makes it, on a 1 size planet, make a Terran environment.
With continental shifts, occasional eruptions, earthquakes, tornadoes, etc. This will make the planet habitable for Terran and similar races.
You can change the form of energy, to suit other creatures, you can reduce it to make a frozen planet, or raise it to make a volcanic planet.

Life (Essence)
The standard template for life is 1 number (1 000 people), 1 size, 1 fertility (+10% per turn), 1 defense, 1 attack, 1 magic, 1 life, 1 worship, 1 sacrifice, 1 intelligence, and 1 skill.
This will make a Terran creature, and use a total of 1 Essence. You could also use it to make more powerful less numerous creatures, or more numerous less powerful creatures.
The formula for calculating cost is 0,001 * 1¹⁰, so you have 10 categories to make alterations in.

Star (Manifest + Power)
The standard template for stars is 0,1 size and 1 energy (thermal), costing 0,1 Manifest and 1 Power.

So anyway, the sheets.

Spoiler: Divine Template (click to show/hide)

Code: [Select]

[b]Name:[/b]
[b]Aspect:[/b] This will define your specialty, and give discounts/bonuses on things related.
[b]Icon:[/b] What symbol do you associate with?
[b]Form:[/b] What do you look like?
[u]History:[/u]
Write this under the category, as it may be a bit long.

So just sign up and wait for approval, I'll probably start it soon.
Or I may just never start it at all, I'm rather new to the game hosting after all.

You could either team up to make something great, or remain splintered, and battle among each other.
Your choice.

[Happy Demon]

Reserved.

[Happy Demon]

Reserved.

[micelus]

Name: Bambar
Aspect: Vigilance
Icon: A bleeding horse.
Form: A human male garbed in lamellar and hardened leather, a bow and quiver is always on his person. His face changes with the season, progressing from a boy to an old man within the span of a decade, before the cycle repeating itself once more.
History:
History? My dear, today we make history.

[Demonic Spoon]

What exactly does the sacrifice category imply? The created creatures are more valuable as sacrifices, or are better at performing sacrifices?

Name: Mechanicus
Aspect: Machines
Icon: Two interlocking gears
Form: A dizzying array of clockwork, crackling with arcs of electricity, and bejeweled with chained rainbows.
History:
Mechanicus is a refugee, fleeing from a universe overcome by rampant emotions and tides of ravenous flesh. Now he would ensure that in this universe, the excesses of emotion and flesh are kept firmly under control. Only the logic of the machine could be trusted, could be relied upon not to cause him to need to flee yet another universe to escape from death.

[Happy Demon]

What exactly does the sacrifice category imply? The created creatures are more valuable as sacrifices, or are better at performing sacrifices?

Name: Mechanicus
Aspect: Machines
Icon: Two interconnected gears
Form: A dizzying array of clockwork, crackling with arcs of electricity, and bejeweled with chained rainbows.
History:
Mechanicus fled, fled from a universe overcome by rampant emotions and tides of flesh. Now he would he would ensure that in this universe, the excesses of emotion and flesh are kept firmly under control. Only the logic of the machine could be trusted, could be relied upon not to cause him to need to flee yet another universe, or perish.

Better at the sacrificial rituals, as the live sacrifice could either be of animals or people.
Sacrificing people does grant more power, but they're also going to be less numerous (and the power attained is based on the Essence used for creating the creature).

[Demonic Spoon]

Okay, so no creating a race of livestock with high sacrifice value for my people to make use of in their sacrifices?

EDIT: If I'm understanding this correctly, the creation template for races seems to break down if you make one of the values (say magic) 0.

[Happy Demon]

Okay, so no creating a race of livestock with high sacrifice value for my people to make use of in their sacrifices?

Nope. You can't game the system that easily.

Besides, if you did find a way to game the system, I could just alter the mechanics of the system (the mechanics of the universe may change).
It's a concept I really like, and helps to combat power gaming.

But hopefully I wont need to change anything, so that the system remains (somewhat) predictable.

[Demonic Spoon]

Okay, so no creating a race of livestock with high sacrifice value for my people to make use of in their sacrifices?

Nope. You can't game the system that easily.

Besides, if you did find a way to game the system, I could just alter the mechanics of the system (the mechanics of the universe may change).
It's a concept I really like, and helps to combat power gaming.

But hopefully I wont need to change anything, so that the system remains (somewhat) predictable.

...okay? I thought having the sacrifice trait be for making good animals for sacrifice was a pretty neat idea, which is why I wanted to confirm that's how it works. Having your god have a sacred animal that he prefers to be sacrificed to his glory seems perfectly reasonable. Like say azure pigeons or whatever.

EDIT: If I'm understanding this correctly, the creation template for races seems to break down if you make one of the values (say magic) 0.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and as is it's perfectly possible to game the sacrifice mechanic btw.

[Happy Demon]

Okay, so no creating a race of livestock with high sacrifice value for my people to make use of in their sacrifices?

Nope. You can't game the system that easily.

Besides, if you did find a way to game the system, I could just alter the mechanics of the system (the mechanics of the universe may change).
It's a concept I really like, and helps to combat power gaming.

But hopefully I wont need to change anything, so that the system remains (somewhat) predictable.

...okay? I thought having the sacrifice trait be for making good animals for sacrifice was a pretty neat idea, which is why I wanted to confirm that's how it works. Having your god have a sacred animal that he prefers to be sacrificed to his glory seems perfectly reasonable. Like say azure pigeons or whatever.

EDIT: If I'm understanding this correctly, the creation template for races seems to break down if you make one of the values (say magic) 0.

If you have a favored animal for sacrifice, that would open the possibility to just make tons of them.
Then you'd have gamed the system to use Essence to get a ton of Power every turn.
That would just wreck the game.

As for the template being unable to handle a zero value...

That's because the creation template is for creations, or rather, humanoid creatures.
A humanoid creature can't have 0 in any of it's values.
If you want to make animals, that's going to be somewhat different.

I may have to create a separate template for that.
Not to mention if people want to make ghosts, star people, or such.

[Demonic Spoon]

As for the template being unable to handle a zero value...

That's because the creation template is for creations, or rather, humanoid creatures.
A humanoid creature can't have 0 in any of it's values.
If you want to make animals, that's going to be somewhat different.

I may have to create a separate template for that.
Not to mention if people want to make ghosts, star people, or such.

Why can't humans have 0 in magic? Is having at least some ability in magic mandatory? If so, why? Even if you can't make it zero, you can make it an arbitrarily small number, like 0.00001, so the system is still broken.

If you have a favored animal for sacrifice, that would open the possibility to just make tons of them.
Then you'd have gamed the system to use Essence to get a ton of Power every turn.
That would just wreck the game.

I'm sorry, but I'm still failing to see how this will wreck the game. Basically, it's opportunity cost. You're making animals to be sacrificed, so you can get power, but as a result, are not using that essence to make worshipers to get manifest.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and as is it's perfectly possible to game the sacrifice mechanic btw.

To illustrate, since you seem concerned about someone abusing the sacrifice mechanic. Since people give higher sacrifice bang per buck than animals, we'll assume that int 1 is required for something to be considered a person, so keep int at one, make all other values low, except for fertility which we make high.

Then make masses of the near useless new race that are nevertheless valuable as sacrifices.

[Happy Demon]

The numerical increments in in tenths (for now), you can only go to 0.1, and doing so will not only reduce casting ability, but also effect.
A creature with 0.1 magic will be less affected by Power effects, such as blessings or curses.

If you make creatures with low on everything but value as sacrifices, that would make you able to create a million of them, sacrifice them, and destroy all other worlds (and be a colossal jerk, because unlimited lasers).

The reason people give more, is that people cost more. So you could sacrifice animals, or you could conquer another god's kingdom and mass sacrifice their people for quick Power gain.
I said it was cost related, so any cheap race would yield less Power as sacrifices.

Also, if you made a ton of people, that would mean feeding a ton of people, yes, food will be a factor, otherwise they'll eat each other.
And sacrificed people can't be eaten, so you can't just sacrifice all the creatures they are to eat.
Well, you can, but that would reduce the yield (I'm thinking half yield).

[Demonic Spoon]

If you make creatures with low on everything but value as sacrifices, that would make you able to create a million of them, sacrifice them, and destroy all other worlds (and be a colossal jerk, because unlimited lasers).

Except you just explained why that doesn't work in the rest of your post?  (Cheap race gives less yield)

The reason people give more, is that people cost more. So you could sacrifice animals, or you could conquer another god's kingdom and mass sacrifice their people for quick Power gain.
I said it was cost related, so any cheap race would yield less Power as sacrifices.

Informative!

[Happy Demon]

If you make creatures with low on everything but value as sacrifices, that would make you able to create a million of them, sacrifice them, and destroy all other worlds (and be a colossal jerk, because unlimited lasers).

Except you just explained why that doesn't work in the rest of your post?  (Cheap race gives less yield)

That was meant as a reason for why having a stat for their usefulness as sacrifice is a bad idea.

[Demonic Spoon]

If you make creatures with low on everything but value as sacrifices, that would make you able to create a million of them, sacrifice them, and destroy all other worlds (and be a colossal jerk, because unlimited lasers).

Except you just explained why that doesn't work in the rest of your post?  (Cheap race gives less yield)

That was meant as a reason for why having a stat for their usefulness as sacrifice is a bad idea.

Yeah sorry I realized that just now, that was a derp on my part.

So, question!

Since I'm a machine god, I was thinking I want to create machine people with manifest, and then give them an animating intelligence with power. How would that work?