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"Actually... if I set it up so that you start with level one in the theoretical racial techs, most races can start using their racial weapons quickly."

okay, I forget about that. that would work, i guess

"Do you want me to send you a few savegame files from the P&N PBW game I mentioned? The population modifiers are changed drastically. Small colonies build slowly. Ships cost fewer minerals and a lot more organics and radioactives, so you have to develop more of those facilities before you can build very much."

No, don't bother. I believe you without that http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif . As I said, I haven't played P&N in a long time. That was probably before the change of the pop modifiers. That's why I asked.

"3000 points limits your options to take other racial advantages too. I don't really want to do that."

Well, I do http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif . Limited options are good. With 5000 pts you can just take everything you want and have some change left. That would cause a lot of redundant empires. If you drop some other stats, you can still take other race advantages. For example, in my latest game I had only 3000 pts, but I could still have 2 racial tech traits plus Propulsion Experts, Adv. Storage and Hardy Industrialists. Giving the empires some low scores in some areas will make them more interesting, IMO.

Rollo

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Yeah, but you probably didn't have 125 aggressiveness and defensiveness with that race. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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IF: Heh. You can set it up however you want, that's fine. I was just pointing out the crossover techs; I didn't mean to sound like I was telling you how to run the game! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

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Re: New PBW Game Idea
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">True, but that is exactly the point http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif .

Oh, and I don't want to come across wrongly either. It's your show, run it how you want it. just making a few suggestions, I'll shut up now... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif .

Rollo

[ July 29, 2002, 09:20: Message edited by: Rollo ]

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No, don't shut up now. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif Comments/suggestions are welcome. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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OK, you can sign me up as Crystalline/Temporal.

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I'm not up to playing, I'd be happy to generate a map.

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I'd be in. Anyone take Organic yet? I'd probably go Organic/Temporal if it's available still. If we do a P&N I'd probably go Nomad too.

Edit: If we did P&N 2.5b (PBW Version) I'd go with organic/gravitic.

[ July 29, 2002, 19:54: Message edited by: jimbob ]

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Ok... so do we want to play standard SE4 Gold, or P&N? Let's take a vote. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif