[The Finn]

Wow... just spent way too long reading this entire thread (go ahead and laugh but I've looked at parts and it was very cool - just HAD to make sure I wasn't missing anything).

Waaayyy back someplace, SJ and WHoJo were debating pirate colonies and the idea of adding SDD to colonizers came up. I have a thought on that.

Could you just mod the colony components to self-destruct? That would ban ALL colonizer capture and the AI wouldn't need to be re-coded. I'm not sure if you can do it, I'm still playing the demo - getting the full Version this month. WOO-HOO!!! Can hardly wait.. I feel like an addict waiting for a hit *twitch, twitch*.... but I'm sure I'll hold out fine. *twitch*

In a way it makes sense.. not from the aspect of an empire killing off their own citizens instead of allowing someone to capture them, but in the sense that colonizers from one race would be of minor value to another. All of the technology of any importance would be at the very least an annoyance to use, at most impossible to figure out.

I'm of the mindset that pirates shouldn't colonize at all. This just makes it harder to do so.