Oh this is just sick and wrong

Sinapus · #1 January 8th, 2001, 11:40 PM

I've been wondering if there was a way to put atrocities into the politics of the game. No, I don't mean the poster on this board, either.

Something like bombing a planet flat should have negative impact on both the target race (for obvious reasons) and other races (who might wonder what you'll do to them) based on their personality profile. Psychotic and xenophobic races might not care about what happens to another race, but Honorable races probably wouldn't react well to a race that commits genocide.

Maybe there should also be a few Propaganda projects in the Intelligence section to offset it. You know, manufacture a bunch of bs about how your admiral exceeded his orders, will be punished, a nice guy like you wouldn't do that and they did it to themselves, etc.

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dmm · #2 January 8th, 2001, 11:54 PM

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Originally posted by Tomgs:
On a related note if you have a race that breathes "none" and you launch them into space shouldn't they still be there later?

Answer #1: If I were them, I'd form up into a giant solar sail and go colonize the nearest moon.

Answer #2: No, because after voluntarily boarding your transport while rioting, they will voluntarily kill themselves just before being jettisoned.

Answer #3: No, silly. Your ships all have some sort of air in them. So the "Nones" all died as soon as they came aboard.

Answer #4: No, because your emotionally disturbed crews will play "hit the pedestrian" for real, instead of just laughing about it in front of their moms like normal teenage boys do.

General Hawkwing · #3 January 9th, 2001, 12:16 AM

Tomgs, I thought this was how it worked but that could have been in ver 1.10. I also noticed that a planet will not always riot when taken by troops, so maybe that was the example I was recalling. Has anyone tried to switch a rioting world pop. with ver 1.19?

Nyx · #4 January 9th, 2001, 12:45 AM

I have, and it worked fine.

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Atrocities · #5 January 11th, 2001, 01:21 AM

Sinapus, I love your B5 Londo quate. Made me laugh.

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geoschmo · #6 January 11th, 2001, 01:41 AM

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On a related note if you have a race that breathes "none" and you launch them into space shouldn't they still be there later?

Only if your ship has an improbability drive. (kudos to anyone who can place that reference)

Puke · #7 January 11th, 2001, 02:01 AM

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Originally posted by geoschmo:
Only if your ship has an improbability drive. (kudos to anyone who can place that reference)

does anyone suppose that the temporal tech tree should contain an infinate improbability drive at the top of the tech tree? not sure what it would do though, maybe we could make it like a powerfull engine and quantum reactor in one. probably to much to ask for it to turn seekers into petunias.