Oh, but of course...
i) make the racial trait give 65% combat bonus
ii) the race only gets "addicted crew" components with the -50% combat bonus. This equals a total of +15%
iii) when the ship is captured it will revert to another race type (neutral or otherwise) and lose the 65% racial combat bonus, but suffer the -50% combat bonus due to withdrawl.
Now unfortunately we've lost the drug synthesis lab component
How about this (does anyone really want this thing besides me? cuz otherwise this is a little pedantic)...
i) racial trait gives 45% bonus to combat. So make it cost the same amount of Racial Points as if the player had bought 15 points of
both space combat attack and defense.
ii) can build drug synth lab component (ship and/or base) for 15% bonus to combat. Make it a relatively large component that costs a fair bit of organics.
iii) "addicted crew" components give a -45% combat bonus.
So now the posibilities are as follows:
1) Parental Race owns ship, Drug Synth Lab in sector : the ship has
+45% (race trait)
+15% (drug synth lab)
-45 (addicted crew) =
+15
2) Parental Race owns ship, Saying No to Drugs : the ship has
+45% (race trait)
+0% (no drug synth lab)
-45 (addicted crew) =
Zero Combat Bonus. However, they paid a heck of a lot of Racial Points, and now have no bonus to combat = tragic consequences to combat capacity.
3) Race X captures ship, Race X has no Drug Synth Labs : -45 (addicted crew) =
-45 Combat Bonus. If this ship survives combat, I'd suggest scrapping it for tech or resources.
4) Race X captures a Drug Synth Ship: +15% to all their ships in the sector ... so don't let this happen!! Put a Master Computer on the darned thing, keep it out of combat, do anything but let this fall into enemy hands! Immediately hunt it down and kill it/recapture it when/if one is captured...
Hopefully these scenarios are balanced.. with every strength there should be a weakness.
[ August 24, 2002, 00:49: Message edited by: jimbob ]