A thought on the Talisman / Live on Pay-Per-View: Geo vs. Fyron

[Q]

Why not just increase the size of the talisman to 100, 200kT or whatever you feel "balanced"? Why not increse the cost of the racial trait religious? IMHO there will never be a general concensus over balance especially if it comes to racial technologies. So I believe we should use the simple solutions to balance the game as we individually like it. But we already had this discussion for the allegiance subverter.

[Phoenix-D]

"Because it is an unfair, unbalancing, illogical, unrealistic advantage"

Everything except unrealistic you can argue for. But when we're running around in ships that don't eat, and run the engines off the same stuff they SHOOT, I thing realism is already getting stretched a bit.

[Fyron]

I (and everyone else) can certainly argue about the realism.

[tesco samoa]

i am not real....

p.s. as a mount is a good idea....

As then it comes down to choices... Do I go for range and damage or do i go for the auto hit...

[Fyron]

Of course you aren't Tesco. You are just a bot made by that British supermarket chain.

[Loser]

I like the idea of making the Talisman make ships easier to hit. Or make the thing terribly expensive, as that will inflict cost during construction but also cost during usage.

Hell, you could make the thing make every ship in the fleet easier to hit, every ship in the system if you wanted to. It is possible to penalize the Talisman, but will that ever balance it?

And I don't think realism is worth much, other than an interesting issue to argue about.

[spoon]

Originally posted by Spoo:
Make it so that the Talisman is only available to bases, weapon platforms, and satellites (i.e. for defensive purposes only).

I think that would make it more or less useless, since defensive structures play a fairly small role in the game by the time you would have the Talisman...

I'd balance it by increasing size (100k+ ???), and cost (2000,2000,2000???).

As it is, though, against experienced players, taking the Religious trait is more of a liability, since it gives the other players a reason to band against you. Lowering your Aggressiveness is just a nail in your coffin.

Sort of funny how that works. In most games, the Talisman will give you Uncontestable Power. But in others, it will bring about your Certain Downfall.