Opinion on emotionless

[Ed Kolis]

Well, it does keep all your planets from rioting just at that critical point when 150 Concordium battleships open a warp point to your home system

[Arkcon]

Thanks guys.

Geo: Yeah I remember a while back people disliked the high cost for emotionless, but hey, I like to role play

S J: Thanks, I didn't realize how easy to was to improve happiness with troops. Sometimes, when I spread my population really thin, on remote, small planets. I end up with lots of angry planets. Even if there are no enemy ships around. Like Ed says, I get a benefit when ememy ships are around -- but I shouldn't let that happen anyway.

Ed: Wait a minute... no cool new icon? That spaceman pic just screams for a cool background.

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
Well, it does keep all your planets from rioting just at that critical point when 150 Concordium battleships open a warp point to your home system

Naw, seeing that will make my population happy cause they will finally get to watch the slaughter in person rather than have to watch it on the news feeds transmitted by my allies as they rampage through Concordium space.

[capnq]

I don't know if this bug has ever been fixed, but AFAIK, if an Emotionless race takes over another race's colony, that colony's Mood stays at its current setting permanently. If the colony was Rioting, the riots never stop.

[PvK]

Emotionless is extremely valuable if and when disaster strikes. If you lose many ships and/or planets at once, all of your planets can go to rioting, which paralyzes your production. If you just lost your main fleet, this will greatly impede you from rebuilding it, unless you have masses of space-based construction capacity and lots of resource reserves and/or trade. I've seen this be a major factor in several PBW games.

What I am wondering now after capnq's post, is what happens if an emotionless race gets hit with an Anarchy Groups intelligence attack? Does it suffer permanent damage, or no damage? If permanent, I'd call it a bug that really messes up Emotionless races. If no damage, then it's another good advantage of Emotionless.

All told, and assuming my fear of the political parties bug is unfounded, I think Emotionless is somewhat undervalued... but only until you get smashed, at which point it could definitely save your skin.

As for capnq's point about captured planets, it's not correct (it should be based on the population on the planet, or at least even captured planets should normalize happiness). Can't it be fixed though by removing the population and re-populating (though, that's silly, and impractical in Proportions mod).

PvK

[Ed Kolis]

Originally posted by Arkcon:

Ed: Wait a minute... no cool new icon? That spaceman pic just screams for a cool background.

Well, I never got up the gumption to bug David to make one Besides, it's only a stock Shrapnel forum avatar, believe it or not - Nebraskan uses the same one... I'm thinking maybe I should switch to a picture of Rimmer with Mr. Flibble from Red Dwarf before I ask for avatar enhancement...

(Completely off topic... Isn't the name "Rimmer" kind of naughty??? Or do I just have a dirty mind? )

[Phoenix-D]

"Completely off topic... Isn't the name "Rimmer" kind of naughty??? Or do I just have a dirty mind?"

Both.

Phoenix-D