NEW PBW : TOTAL ANNIHILATION Arm & Core legacy

[Unknown_Enemy]

TOTAL ANNIHILATION : Arm & Core legacy

Long ago, the galaxy had known peace.

Paradise was ruled with the hand of science, and the hand was that of the galactic governing body known as the Core. Ironically, it was the Core's ultimate victory, the victory over death itself, that brought about the downfall of its paradise and started the war that would decimate a million worlds.
The immortality process, known as "patterning," involved the electronic duplication of brain matrices, allowing the transfer of consciousness into durable machines. Effectively it meant immortality, and the Core decreed the process mandatory for all citizens in order to ensure their safety. However, there were many citizens unwilling to toss aside their bodies so casually, many indeed who regarded patterning as an atrocity. They fled to the outer edges of the galaxy, forming a resistance movement that became known as the Arm. War began, though it was never officially declared by either side. The Arm developed high-powered combat suits for its armies, while the Core transferred the minds of its soldiers directly into similarly deadly machines. The Core duplicated its finest warriors thousands of times over. The Arm countered with a massive cloning program. The war raged on for more than 4,000 years, consuming the resources of an entire galaxy and leaving it a scorched wasteland. Both sides lay in ruins. Their civilizations had long since vanished, their once vast military complexes were smashed. Their armies were reduced to a few scattered remnants that continued to battle over ravaged worlds. Their hatred fueled by millenia of conflict, they would fight to the death. For each, the only acceptable outcome was the complete and utter annihilation of the other.

Meanwhile, countless species has been wiped out during the war. But some barely survived, through luck and skill, and achieved to reach space flight tech level. You represent one of such race. Your race has known only war in the galaxy for the past millenia. But now, your time has come. How will you deal with the remnants of Arm and Core ? How will you deal with the other species who achieved to survive the same way as you did ?

You have learned the lesson. There is only one way to work it out : TOTAL ANNIHILATION.

This game uses DeathStalker's mount mod 1.3, with SE4 gold 1.78, we will upgrade to the next patch as soon as it is published to avoid the Temporal Burst bug. This game aslo uses the quadrant type first created by DeathStalker for his Return to Orion PBW. So thank him by killing him if you happen to meet that guy in a PBW :-)

Starting resources: 100000
Starting planets: 1
Home planet value: Good
Score display: Own
Technology level: Low
Racial points: 3000
Quadrant type: Sphereworld's quadrant (minus ring and sphere worlds)
Quadrant size: Large
Event frequency: Low
Event severity: High
Technology cost: Medium
Victory conditions: Last race standing or player's vote
Maximum units: 15000
Maximum ships: 1500
Computer players: 2
Computer difficulty: High
Computer player bonus: Medium
Neutral empires: No
Other game settings: No intel, no surrender, no communications outside of the game, write your race's description and stick to it. All Trade are allowed. Pre game alliances are forbidden. Is is forbidden to give mercy, to be nice to each others and it is forbidden to even smile at an alien without glassing his world.

[Unknown_Enemy]

You have not joined yet ????
Here is what you are missing !

NOTE : in a multiplayer game diplomacy should normally be a critical factor. Players would negotiate, agreements would be reached and play would proceed along lines shaped by the outcome of the negotiations. But Total Annihilation PBW does not proceed along conventional lines. Instead, each player carries a mental ‘Vendetta Index’ whereupon all the treachery and misdeeds of other players, across all games and years, are accurately recorded. Any negotiation phase is a merely an opportunity to consult the Vendetta Index, and plans are formed accordingly, though of course words to the contrary may be uttered. Sadly, the list of crimes on the Vendetta Index is now so long, that no player has room to record any wrongdoing of his own.
How would these factors resolve themselves in the upcoming fight? The only certainty is that the player’s words would provide absolutely no guide whatsoever to their real intentions. I have therefore provided an expert translation (expletives deleted).

Murden: “My initial plan is to develop my empire without opening my lines to hit-and-run tactics that have ended my games quickly in the past. I will research mines as fast as I can so my empire will lay some all across the map with great sense of satisfaction.”

Murden’s Real Thoughts: “I have been so rotten to so many people that all players are almost certainly going to come after me. I’m going to lie low, prepare defenses, and hope to see vengeance coming from far enough away to let me make a run for it.

Dberg : “Murden is a better player than me in the end game. Therefore my plan is to swarm aggressively with my organic race and hope to kill his empire early.”

Dberg’s Real Thoughts: "I remember a game five years ago where Unknown_Enemy ratted me out, and yet didn’t go on to win. I abhor incompetent treachery above all else, so I’m heading straight for Unknown_Enemy as soon as I can find him."

Unknown_Enemy : “My plan was to kill all the other players”

Unknown_Enemy’s Real Thoughts: “I remember a game five years ago where I took too long to backstab dberg, and this delay cost me victory. I shall not be swayed by sentiment this time, and shall get rid of dberg straight away."

(thanks to SSG for most of the text)

[tesco samoa]

Who here still plays TA.

I loved that game.

Still go to TAMAC

and the now called TADesingners

I would like to start playing that game again.

Fantastic Multiplayer game.

[Unknown_Enemy]

Well,
Sign on this PBW and I'll teach you good tactics of core rampant extermination.



and BTW it's not TAMAC but TAMEC (TA Map Evaluation Center)

[ October 25, 2002, 15:14: Message edited by: Unknown_Enemy ]

[Unknown_Enemy]

not filled yet, still open.

[Unknown_Enemy]

Bump