Re: Return to Orion- Sphereworld PBW game.
 

intel off.

With intel on I would steal every AI starship I could find to help other gamers to die a painful and slow death. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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I'm up for another game, but I'm bored to tears with tech trading. If the option is enabled then it seems like a no-brainer to trade everything with everyone as quickly as possible.

This is a) tedious, I'm fed up with writing endless emails asking if x wants to trade y for w.
and b) you miss out on several features of the game. Like fighting wars with low tech ships, and having three different colonization phases in the game.

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Good point Evil Rich, what do the rest of you guys think?? So far for Intel the vote is to kill it for this game.

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I could go with no tech trading. Sometimes it is fun, but a game without it would be nice for a change.

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Let me toss my vote in, no intel and no tech trading.

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Ok, I have uploaded my empire with the assumption that there will be no intel and no tech trading. I will be using my newly uploaded Azorani Alliance shipset.

Re: Return to Orion- Sphereworld PBW game.
 

Ok, no tech trading and no intel it is. Once everyone's empires are uploaded we shall start the game. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif And as for the "Azorani Alliance", I fear them enough without a human intelligence behind them! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif Seriously though, they have become one of my 'standard' favorite opponents.

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Question: With no tech trading do we also want 'allow gift/tribute??'. I realize that this is a way around the no tech trading (ie, trade ship then analyze) but we can always rely on peoples honor to just accept the gifts and not analyze them.

So: 1)No gift/tribute
2) Yes, gift/tribute Honor system.(IMO no problem here)
3) Yes, gift/tribute, we still want to analyze tech.

Just wish there was a way to turn off the 'analyze' button.

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Easy then, IMO no gifts and no tributes. If you can't get it together to survive on your own then so be it.

Diplomacy should revolve about things you want to act upon. Not about things you want to scratch each others back with.

Re: Return to Orion- Sphereworld PBW game.
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Oh, I don't think we want to turn off the analyze button. Bwahahaha! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

Question on trading, though (and this is tied in with the gift/tribute question, since gift/tribute can just as easily be used as a trade): are we disallowing tech trading only or all trading. A side effect of disallowing all trading is removing the ability to trade population for population that can breath a different atmosphere. I'm not saying that is a bad thing, since it seems like a practice that governments probably wouldn't really practice (or at least their populations might object!), but it is definitely an effect to be aware of.

So I guess that leads to the next question, do we want to allow population exchanges, or should the only way to get a different breathing population be to capture them?