Philosophical scenario - A chance meeting

Caduceus · #1 May 26th, 2006, 10:54 AM

If your initial response from such a race is friendly (or at least not overtly hostile), it may be worthwhile to tell them where your home system is with the exchange of said information on their part.

Think of it as disarmament talks.

NullAshton · #2 May 26th, 2006, 11:13 AM

Yeah, mutually assured desctruction tends to make peace a lot easier.

Glyn · #3 May 26th, 2006, 01:12 PM

According To SEIV Rules Of Engagement, you always attack on first encounters!

It doesn�t really matter what do. If you plan to trade then at some point your races will give away the locations of their home systems. Your just passing the problem to the next contact.

The best solution I can think of is to behave as if your race has many worlds colonized. Offer to the other race to relay diplomatic messages and setup trade between one of your races systems, if the other captains agrees to do the same.

Suicide Junkie · #4 May 26th, 2006, 07:42 PM

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Glyn said:
According To SEIV Rules Of Engagement, you always attack on first encounters!

On a related note, I have a colony ship in Carrier Battles Deluxe #1, which has +2% experience

Now that some ships with guns have shown up to guard the warppoint, it will be colonizing something soon.

narf poit chez BOOM · #5 May 26th, 2006, 09:51 PM

Baron Munchausen gets his choice of cookie, ice cream or cheese, for guessing the method they used in the book.

Hunpecked gets his choice of cookie, ice cream or cheese, for his...Perspective on it.

That is all. Please continue.

Spoo · #6 May 27th, 2006, 10:09 AM

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narf poit chez BOOM said:
Baron Munchausen gets his choice of cookie, ice cream or cheese, for guessing the method they used in the book.

Hunpecked gets his choice of cookie, ice cream or cheese, for his...Perspective on it.

That is all. Please continue.

What if the other race had set a self-destruct timer, or crippled their ship in some other way?

narf poit chez BOOM · #7 May 27th, 2006, 02:24 PM

That was what Hunpecked pointed out.

I don't think there is a safe option here - No matter what you do, you're going to have to roll the dice sometime.

Strategia_In_Ultima · #8 May 26th, 2006, 02:39 PM

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Caduceus said:
If your initial response from such a race is friendly (or at least not overtly hostile), it may be worthwhile to tell them where your home system is with the exchange of said information on their part.

Think of it as disarmament talks.

What surprises me is that nobody has yet brought up the fact that while you only have one solar system, they might have an empire spanning a thousand systems. Then what?

Starhawk · #9 May 26th, 2006, 03:31 PM

Well then you blow up that ship and if it's buddies show up you go "Damn buddies some guy came in to this sector and just WHAM blew your ship to hell.....can we do anything to help you find them?"
And act all innocent and sweet.

Glyn · #10 May 26th, 2006, 03:47 PM

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Caduceus said:
If your initial response from such a race is friendly (or at least not overtly hostile), it may be worthwhile to tell them where your home system is with the exchange of said information on their part.

Think of it as disarmament talks.

What surprises me is that nobody has yet brought up the fact that while you only have one solar system, they might have an empire spanning a thousand systems. Then what?

Hey, I thought of it!

You have no way of knowing how large or small their empire is. Nor do they known how large or small our empire is.

So if you pretend to be bigger than you actual are they would be less inclined to pick a fight. Call it the bullfrog defense! (see my earlier post.)

Of course with a little Intel and time both empires would learn the actual size of each other, but hopefully by then a peacefully coexistence has taken root. If not then the big fish eats the little fish and gets bigger.