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Siren-ish

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Krigg-ish

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Siren-ish with limited space age

1 (20%)

Krigg-ish with limited space age

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Total Members Voted: 5

[Neyvn]

Have we sent pokes to those not sending Turns???

[techno65535]

*Poke*

Not having any problems are you nirur?

[Nirur Torir]

I'm sorry. It was hard enough to get myself to update with every player active. With just under half of them not playing ... If Wolfchild and Abcullater post their turns, or if somebody finds replacements, I'll continue it. Cheddarius is too powerful to be given to a new player - If he does not return, his faction will be controlled by me until it completely annexes Krigg, at which point it will "focus on defense," at which point it may no longer be attacked. For simplicity's sake.

[RAM]

Well, you could just do the 'build up defences and save technology' thing until people respond. I don't really see how having a new person in Cheddar's spot would be worse than having Cheddar in Cheddar's spot, though it would be an odd introduction for someone. Non-responsive players could just have their empires removed by the massive nuclear retaliation of the rebels aboard the mothership.

Or we could start a new game with new rules, I for one would like to see industry and technology research slowed down, maybe start with 2 points per terrain unit and have the research only add .5 of a point per terrain unit...

Or everyone could be moved to to the same planet, which could be made a mite larger, I wouldn't mind giving up a relative number of my cities to host someone from Krigg...

[Neyvn]

Oh I would like a fresh start... That would be interesting now that we know what to do...

[techno65535]

But but but...I'm finally just about to leave this planet!

[RAM]

Maybe you could just divide the cities of the empires that don't have moves between the empires that do have moves...
Or just have them do absolutely nothing and accrue resources. Having a mess of points built up might make someone want too take another turn, and if they don't come back then their lack of unit production will make them an easy target for foreign powers, or they could just build turrets...

[Nirur Torir]

Too many players have dropped. Combined with the time I let it idle for, I don't think continuing would work well, sorry.

I'll do a smaller scale remake though, without the space stuff. It will likely be with six players.

The question is, which planet type is preferred? Siren-like with water, or Krigg-like without water?

Balance changes:
Shields will be available at the start of the game
Industry and Science technologies will only increase stuff by .5x/level, rather then 1x/level.
Colonizers will not be transportable by air. It does strange things to early balance.

Now to spoil the plot stuff I didn't get to bring in normally.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The captain is still aboard the spaceship. The communication room was captured by rebels who pretended to be the captain. You shouldn't believe everything NPCs say, especially when they suddenly change their minds, from: "I'll go down with the ship to stop them from getting the nukes" to "Help help, the rebels are going to kill me!" The speech pattern also changed slightly.

The captain would have chewed you out for fighting each other, when you might be the last of humanity. He would then ban nuclear weapons, but you could have built them anyway. Breaking this would have cause him to attack with nukes, but the ship itself would have been obsolete and reasonably easy to destroy. (Such cruelty!) Alternatively, somebody could have rescued the ship and all population for an industry boost. The captain would have landed somewhere and built an IPBM (Inter-planetary) base, where he would have have continued to act as a nuclear-disarmament pact of some sort.

A few turns after the no-nukes rule, a probe would have arrived from Earth with a recorded message about the Earth's population and ecology being devastated, but that they had survived. A small group of Chinese would have somehow built themselves up on Mars. (I don't know how they survived a broken colony-base-pod-thing. They just did. People do that sort of thing in movies, so it's justified.)

The sequel would have had revealed that the Chinese were technologically superior and xenophobic, while the Terrans would have been economically superior and have eventually tried to subjugate everyone, as the true heirs to humanity. An uneasy and temporary truce would have been broken around the time you discovered <FTL method of choice> and arrived. Since the population here was largely allowed to build up in undisturbed, well-prepared facilities, and had more initial population, they would somehow be competitive with the other factions, based on when this game ended.

[RAM]

Cool!

I would probably go for a planet with water. It gives you options for avoiding the fighting...

[techno65535]

Darn, I was looking forward to the space section. Maybe you could just limit it to a planet and it's two moons? (and a very small amount of space around them)

[Nirur Torir]

Very well, I'll add the options. Consider it as voting for space/no space and water/no water: If space gets 3/2, but no space gets 1/4, we'd go with space and the second planet option.

All players would start out on the same planet, and space would cost 150 RP.

Only votes in the poll itself will be counted.

[Cheddarius]

I'm glad to see this come back to life. Again, I'm very sorry for leaving at such an inopportune time.

[techno65535]

Siren with space!

Perhaps the ability of planes to move in space should be curtailed. Maybe 3 or 6 points of movement to move one hex in space for aircraft? 2/4 for missiles?

[Neyvn]

Oh yeah that sounds like a good idea with the Planet and the Moon, but perhaps make the planet a little larger. I mean like have the size you currently use as the MOON size while the planet is a lot more bigger...

[techno65535]

Don't you mean the two moons? Personally think there should be two moons. Just seems appropriate some how.