Silicoids

[Spyder]

It'd be interesting to have a race like the Silicoids from MOO. A Race that can colonize any atmosphere...however, he could only ever do rock & ice planets (ie, planets with solidity...rocks to eat). They would be Xenophobic...couldn't use other races to colonize...to balance them out some. Great miners, poor researchers, slow reproduction and average producers.

[Nitram Draw]

Couldn't you make this race? You would probably have to modify the research so it never researched gas giant colonization and hope they never aquired it any other way.

[pathfinder]

yup, could be done. just have make all them AI files..plus a shipset

[Spyder]

You would have to make it so that they could not EVER use gas colonization, and, make it so that they would or could not use foreign colonization (ie, use other races to colonize). They would prob have access to the Crystal research stuff....



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Spyder, Chairman of the Arachnid Consortium

[pathfinder]

*scratches head* not sure about never....maybe a way to make it SSSSOOOO expensive to research and/or build maybe...might be. not sure I have the talent to figure that out..

[Suicide Junkie]

Hey, just make colonization tech a Racial tech.

So you need Gas Giant colon. 1
AND non-silicoid 1

in order to build GG colonies.


You'd still be able to capture colony ships, but you still wouldn't be able to learn colonization tech.

Anyone with non-silicoid racial trait could research level one for free, and get gas giant colonies (provided they have gas colon. tech 1).

[Spyder]

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Originally posted by pathfinder:
*scratches head* not sure about never....maybe a way to make it SSSSOOOO expensive to research and/or build maybe...might be. not sure I have the talent to figure that out..

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Pathy...think about it...how would a rock-eating race even have a chance on a Gas planet?

Besides, there is a balance thing to worry about. If you let them colonize any atmosphere, then, they can spread very quickly...too quickly. So, you limit them in some way...they absolutely, positively never ever will be able to colonize a Gas planet...which are the most abundant huge sized planets. Which means that they are stuck with the ice & rock planets only.

Now, they DO have a way around that though....they can research planet destroying & building and destroy the gas planets and rebuild them and hope for ice or rock....


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Spyder, Chairman of the Arachnid Consortium

[Daynarr]

There is VERY easy way to prevent them form colonizing Gas Giants. Remove the design for Gas Giant Colony Ship for that race. That way they won't be able to build these colonizers and won't colonize Gas Giants. Of course, you should remove that tech from their research files as well, so that they don't spend lots of points on useless tech.

[pathfinder]

spyder, I agree on that that is what should be...just wasn't sure HOW to

[pathfinder]

hmmm, should the ships look like rocks/asteroids or sharp/pointy-like sorta regular ships..