CyCon PBEM

Chaunk · July 28, 2003, 17:52

Is there any interest in this? I think it could be entertaining to square off against you guys, especially as we seem to be showing how we all play the game!

Rules to be determined by majority!

C

Maniac · July 28, 2003, 17:56

I would like that very much (at least as long as the same thing as with Race for the Prize doesn't happen).

DeathByTheSword · July 29, 2003, 05:19

what happend to the race for the prize? and i am in....but i am going to loose big time

Maniac · July 29, 2003, 05:33

People dropped out all the time, being replaced umpteen times. Now the game isn't continuing anymore.

Chaunk · July 29, 2003, 06:43

Well yeah, hopefully we won't be dropping out all the time, otherwise this may end up as less democracy game and more an autocracy game....

I'd like the PK's please.

DeathByTheSword · July 29, 2003, 16:23

pirates! pretty pretty please?

Method · July 29, 2003, 16:49

PBEM = SMAC meets watching paint dry

Maniac · July 29, 2003, 16:50

How about two Pirate factions?

Googlie · July 29, 2003, 18:53

or an all-aquatic game? (visit Rynn's Gallery for aquaticized versions of all the regular factions)

Method · July 29, 2003, 19:09

oooh, those are fun. i did that a few times

Chaunk · July 30, 2003, 04:24

all aquatic would be fun....

DeathByTheSword · July 30, 2003, 06:03

Maniac · July 30, 2003, 16:06

Googlie, what changes did you make to those aquatized factions? Rynn's gallery says you added some facilities for instance.

Corellion · July 30, 2003, 20:30

I would be interested, and all-aquatic would be an interesting switch.

Arr! Meet the Sea-borgs!

DeathByTheSword · August 7, 2003, 10:36

ok so who is playing? and are we still doing this?

Corellion · August 7, 2003, 14:37

If it's still going on, then I'll join in.

Maniac · August 7, 2003, 17:12

Of course I would like to join. I just though interest dropped since no one responded.

Chaunk · August 7, 2003, 17:56

Ahh so this is the reply that dropped, been getting loads of 500 server errors recently

...

Do we need a CMN or should one of us just start?

Maniac · August 7, 2003, 20:34

Well I think we still need to decide the factions we're gonna use. But if we can choose out of Googlie's adapted set, I have a few concerns about balance. He gave the Consciousness a free skunkworks, the Drones a free naval yard (

), the Believers rec commons, Gaians biology lab, Morgan energy bank, Spartans command center, and the PKs a free children's creche, along with a few other minor changes I sometimes don't understand. These changes are in the disadvantage of those factions who already had a free facility. Also the Pirates are still the original, now making them quite weak compared to Googlie's aquatic set. So there are a few things we might need to discuss, adapt the factions a little ourselves so they seem more balanced. (Or I could do a few proposals, and you guys could say whether you like them or not.

)

DeathByTheSword · August 8, 2003, 06:47

i like the last line you typed

(yes i am lazy

)

Maniac · August 8, 2003, 08:07

I'll try to post a proposal tonight when I have more time.

Maniac · August 29, 2003, 20:35

It turned out to be a long night.

http://apolyton.net/upload/files/Maniac/Aquaticfacs.zip

Basically I worked from Googlie's set and deleted the free facilities and some other things (eg free sea colony pod for Spartans and PKs) he had given. On the other hand I added a few things myself eg free unity foil for the Spartans.
I changed three factions:

The Disciples I gave one free mineral on fungus.

For the Hackers I gave them a free probe cutter instead of a probe team (I added the probe cutter in my edited alphax.txt. I haven't tested if it works though). I also lessened their probe bonus from +2 to +1 to avoid the rollover bug. In return I gave them impunity for Knowledge, which seems a fitting SE choice for them.

The original Pirates had become quite weak compared to the all-aquatic set, so I boosted them with +1 Support and impunity for Power. A true warmonger's faction! They may again be too powerful now though.

As for the alphax.txt, it contains a probe cutter, a -1 instead of -2 industry penalty for Power SE, and halved chassis costs for foils and cruiser.

Disclaimer: I didn't test all these changes. I just threw together some files in a hurry tonight.

Googlie · August 29, 2003, 21:12

M:

I'll have a look at them and playtest this weekend, and give some comments (assuming Sunday afternoon isn't too late)

G.