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[generalpie]

Why don't you play a PBDropbox game against each other to find out which one of you is really better with your respective factions, eh?

Whose up for this...

I haven't actually tried all the factions yet, but so far my favourite's been Gaia's Stepdaughters. Mind worms kick ass! Personality-wise, my favourite faction leader is Roze.

Datatechs all day!

[Sharp]

meh, i would be up fora tcp/ip game but PBEM takes so long.

[Soadreqm]

I've kind of started disliking Zakharov recently and I think I just figured out why. The way I see him, he's kind of lacking in the kind of integrity all the other faction leaders have. He seems to be all about founding a society on science, but at the same time, he's not really making a serious effort to educate his own drones. Lal's followers have way higher average education. It's like Zakharov doesn't really care about knowledge as a social cause, and is just pursuing knowledge for his own ends. Well, that's not really fair. Let's call it knowledge for its own sake. Which is cool and all, but kind of makes me feel that perhaps he shouldn't be the one ruling all of Planet.

Like, basically everyone but Zakharov and Morgan (ignoring Alien Crossfire) is committed to preventing a repeat of Earth in their own way. Those two just want to play around on a new planet with no governmental oversight. And Morgan gets a free pass since he's kind of supposed to be unscrupulous.

[10ebbor10]

Well, the pregame text (The backstory, can find it somewhere on a forum) makes it pretty clear he really, really doesn't want to die.

Zakharov pursues knowledge for his own good, and for the good of knowledge itself.

[Loud Whispers]

Why don't you play a PBDropbox game against each other to find out which one of you is really better with your respective factions, eh?

What's a dropbox game?

[TripJack]

PBEM except instead of using email you exchange turn files through a shared dropbox folder...

[Loud Whispers]

PBEM except instead of using email you exchange turn files through a shared dropbox folder...

Oh right, makes much more sense. Although I was hoping for a turn based game transmitted by USB sticks attached to airdropped boxes.

[Karlito]

the AI never breaks vassalage oaths

It does in a few cases, like when you start dropping planet busters on people.

[generalpie]

I've kind of started disliking Zakharov recently and I think I just figured out why. The way I see him, he's kind of lacking in the kind of integrity all the other faction leaders have. He seems to be all about founding a society on science, but at the same time, he's not really making a serious effort to educate his own drones. Lal's followers have way higher average education. It's like Zakharov doesn't really care about knowledge as a social cause, and is just pursuing knowledge for his own ends. Well, that's not really fair. Let's call it knowledge for its own sake. Which is cool and all, but kind of makes me feel that perhaps he shouldn't be the one ruling all of Planet.

Like, basically everyone but Zakharov and Morgan (ignoring Alien Crossfire) is committed to preventing a repeat of Earth in their own way. Those two just want to play around on a new planet with no governmental oversight. And Morgan gets a free pass since he's kind of supposed to be unscrupulous.

Well if your basing Zakharov's personality off of the quotes, I agree, but you have to remember, he was basically slowly becoming insane towards the end, and he didn't really believe the drones mattered, more-so the pursuit of pure discovery.(Canon of course)

PBEM except instead of using email you exchange turn files through a shared dropbox folder...

Oh right, makes much more sense. Although I was hoping for a turn based game transmitted by USB sticks attached to airdropped boxes.

Of course not silly..What are we? Soviet Spies installed in the United States years ago during 1972 and preparing for the rise of the second Soviet Union? Haha....ha...........ha.

[Soadreqm]

Well if your basing Zakharov's personality off of the quotes, I agree, but you have to remember, he was basically slowly becoming insane towards the end, and he didn't really believe the drones mattered, more-so the pursuit of pure discovery.(Canon of course)

I didn't get insane, really. He kind of flips out after the Lab Three Incident, but calms down in time to provide the quote for Voice of Planet.

[Loud Whispers]

Of course not silly..What are we? Soviet Spies installed in the United States years ago during 1972 and preparing for the rise of the second Soviet Union? Haha....ha...........ha.

...We Sheng-Ji Yang naow.

[Tellemurius]

PBEM except instead of using email you exchange turn files through a shared dropbox folder...

Oh right, makes much more sense. Although I was hoping for a turn based game transmitted by USB sticks attached to airdropped boxes.

im not paying for that shipping overhead.

[Shadowlord]

Use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers

[generalpie]

I want to see an alternate Earth where the entire internet is pigeons now...

[Vgray]

I should play this more.

What was the explanation for the new human factions anyway? I don't have Alien Crossfire.