does religious *need* the talisman?

Taera · #1 January 7th, 2003, 08:51 AM

i've been thinking (i think too much today) - do religious races actually need their Talisman?
Not that it makes ab****ely no sense, but all the facilities you get from religious are just excellent for all but bloodbath scenarios and allow players to build more, fight better and be well-defended. If the talisman was removed from the game would you people still use religious?
Personally i dont think Talisman is a fair thing.

PsychoTechFreak · #2 January 7th, 2003, 09:29 AM

It would be nice if RTs would loose some kind of divine energy with every combat/combat turn/fired weapon/whatever. With the next use it would have a chance of 99%, 98% and so forth. The divine energy could be reloaded at a Fate Shrine in a similar way as with ship training facilities, percent-wise.

Kamog · #3 January 7th, 2003, 09:46 AM

Yeah, that 100% hit rate is kind of unfair. How about if instead it just worked like a really high level combat sensor that adds a big percentage but can never result in a hit percentage higher than 99%?

Fyron · #4 January 7th, 2003, 09:50 AM

How about it gives +50% to hit? It would stack with combat senors, and 50 isn't a ludicrous amount.

rextorres · #5 January 7th, 2003, 10:22 AM

The talisman is the ONLY reason to get Religious Trait.

Kamog · #6 January 7th, 2003, 10:29 AM

Well, the religious shrines are nice, too. Especially the Nature Shrine, which increases the value and condition of all the planets in the system. But do you know if all the other shrines work? Like the one that's supposed to reduce bad events or protect against intelligence operations or something, does it do what it's supposed to?