The Galactic Invasion 2: Replacement Player Needed

[douglas]

luke_slovakian said:
Hey i'll join i never played adamant mod but guessing it will be fun:-p. Hey btw welcome to the threads mastermindkar. Hope u like the gmae

Just one spot left, and you still haven't signed up on PBW. Hurry up. It's "The Galactic Invasion 2", alphabetized by "The" on PBW. Once you join and everyone uploads their empires, we can start.

[mastermindkar]

PBWs on the fritz. But for when its working, how do you upload an empire?

Also, Are the forced proceation facilities really supposed to cause 16% unhappiness per turn? You'd think they could find volunteers for that sort of thing...

[mastermindkar]

P.S. Does storage specialists still increaes the number of facilities per planet?

[douglas]

For uploading an empire, go to the new game screen in the appropriate mod, set the racial points limit to the correct value, and create your empire. Make sure your empire is selected and click "Save to File". Create a new empire file and name it whatever you like. Then, close SEIV and go to PBW. Go to the specific game screen and click the "Send Empire File" button at the top (it looks like the Load Cargo button in SEIV). Where it asks for the empire file, browse to the Empires directory within the mod folder and look for something with the name you specified with .emp tacked on. The empire password field is strictly for PBW's records and will only be divulged to a replacement player if you happen to quit. The Shipset used entry is to help other players find your shipset if you're not using a stock one, and to help prevent duplicate shipsets by letting players check what shipsets are already claimed.

In Adamant, Advanced Storage Techniques is actually a special racial tech that gives you 25% better cargo facilities and cargo bays. The Subterranean trait is what gives you more facility space.

[mastermindkar]

I finally understand what those "ast" cargo bays I have are. Thanks Douglas.

[douglas]

There are a fair number of components and facilities that are improved versions of the normal kind and require a racial tech trait. All of them have an abbreviation for the racial trait in parentheses after the component/facility name. One thing I really like is how Adamant does Propulsion Experts - it uses a Quasi-Newtonian Propulsion system, and the PE version of each engine has one more standard movement point; this translates into a 100% (very early game) to 16% (extreme late game) overall speed boost rather than a constant +1 movement point, though you can get the stock Propulsion Experts effect too, with Transdimensional.

[mastermindkar]

One final question before I make my empire. If you lower your trade attribute, does this lower the quantity of research points you receive from trade, or just resources?

[douglas]

Political Savvy affects resources, research, and intelligence income from treaties. This isn't as much of a concern in Adamant as in stock, however, as Adamant limits trade income to 10% rather than 20%. On the other hand, the threshold cost of reducing PS below 80% is a pathetic 5 racial points and may not be worth it. With 9 other races, all of which are teamed with you and will likely establish permanent partnerships on first contact, it might actually be worth raising PS.

[mastermindkar]

I'm good to go.

Thanks alot Douglas, you've given me all the tools I need to lose horribly to you. Should be fun though.

[douglas]

You're welcome. Don't worry too much, you can always retreat to your 3 homeworlds and their 100000 or so shields if you have to. It'll be a while before either monster race is able to beat those, and I'm not going to just sit in orbit blockading. My monsters like quick resolutions of battles. Plus, we monsters are outnumbered 5 to 1, and we don't get to expand.