New Weapons Ideas

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Jake Monroe:

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Originally posted by Puke:
planet cloaks work. either as a component or as a facility. it uses the sector site obscuration ability, and has the side effect of cloaking all ships and bases in the sector.

I tried doing that, but when I took controll of a race without any sensor tech, I could still see everything in the sector of the planet with the facility.

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Go get Devnull Mod and check out how the Monsters cloak their HW. Keep in mind that all ships have a built-in level 1 passive (or is it active?) EM scanner, so if you tried level 1 cloaking, it would not work well.

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by Renegade:

2. More sorting options for Planets. Add the sorting option to sort by atmosphere type. Example would be only show Oxygen worlds - uncolonized, colonized, etc.

This is a good idea. Also add this sorting to the Colonization window. This way you can sort what colonies you want to send ships to. IE you have captured a Hydrogen planet filled with hydrogen breathers and all you want to do now is send out ships from this planet to colonize ONLY hydrogen planets. By being able to sort by atmosphere type and one could better deploy his colony ships. This would become a VERY useful feature IMHO. I wish we had it now.

[Loser]

I believe you can sort by atmosphere in the Planet Window... or did I miss something?

[Baron Grazic]

Some good suggestions, but I have got to disagree with this one.

--- Population Converter. A weapon that changes the population of a planet into your population. (It converts them by using a biological mutation virus.) ---

I know we are talking about pretty advanced civilations, but I just can't see how any technology could turn any race into another. How could any virus turn the EEE into the Cryslonite or Terrans, etc?

[Renegade]

Originally posted by Loser:
I believe you can sort by atmosphere in the Planet Window... or did I miss something?

Yes you can, but it also lists all of the other planets as well. I like the idea Atrocities said about sorting the atmosphere types in the Colony window. That is a great idea.

Origninally posted by Baron Grazic:

Some good suggestions, but I have got to disagree with this one.

--- Population Converter. A weapon that changes the population of a planet into your population. (It converts them by using a biological mutation virus.) ---

I know we are talking about pretty advanced civilations, but I just can't see how any technology could turn any race into another. How could any virus turn the EEE into the Cryslonite or Terrans, etc?

I know what you mean, but we have seen this demonstrated on many Sci-Fi shows, most noteably Star Trek Next Generation and most recently on Star Trek Enterprise. I thought it would be a great weapon, a morphing weapon, that works over time. A medical facility or component would work to reverse or prevent such weapons.

[Baron Grazic]

It may have worked on a few Sci-Fi shows, but weren't those example on humaniod races?
Could you see it turning a jellyfish (EEE) into Human?

Edit - Don't take me to serious, I'm in a weird mood today, and am disagreeing with everyone. People at work have noticed and no-one is game to bother me now, so I might have to make this my new attitude.

[ September 30, 2003, 05:19: Message edited by: Baron Grazic ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

not that i'm really reading this thread, but a weapon to turn even a human into another humanoid would have to do so slowly and with the most extreme care, as the possibility of something in one system being poisonious to the other system is high. propaganda would probably be much faster and safer.