Nerfed empires

spoon · #1 April 29th, 2004, 07:49 PM

Slow Thinkers: Turn off all your ministers, click the Don't Let The AI Play Missed Turns for Simultaneous Games. Then play only every 5th turn. (You can make it more difficult by not queuing up construction orders, and only moving as far as your movement takes you on the current turn).

[ April 29, 2004, 18:49: Message edited by: spoon ]

geoschmo · #2 April 29th, 2004, 08:04 PM

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Originally posted by spoon:
Slow Thinkers: Turn off all your ministers, click the Don't Let The AI Play Missed Turns for Simultaneous Games. Then play only every 5th turn. (You can make it more difficult by not queuing up construction orders, and only moving as far as your movement takes you on the current turn).

We've got some people that do that now.

You could say it's some sort of hibernation phase where the entire race goes dormant.

se5a · #3 April 29th, 2004, 08:11 PM

zero reproduction - I have accedentaly done this in one of my games...
im hoping ill find an organic race to ally with and get them to buld me some facilitys...

Suicide Junkie · #4 April 29th, 2004, 08:13 PM

Even with minimum reproduction characteristic, you'll get 1% if you have a perfectly optimal planet with jubilant people.

Hard to find or make, but when you do, hang on tight

dogscoff · #5 April 29th, 2004, 09:04 PM

Create a "tribble" race: Reduce every trait to minimum except reproduction and env resistance. No advanced traits.

Use my KanesS shipset for this- those traits suit them well=-)

EvilGenius4ABetterTomorro · #6 April 29th, 2004, 09:33 PM

Did a few races based on MOO2. The Klaxons (Ant-like race) has minimal research, high reproduction, high tolerance, high productivity. Go beserko on other Aliens picnics! Still playing that game, I'll let you know.

geoschmo · #7 April 29th, 2004, 09:51 PM

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Originally posted by dogscoff:
Create a "tribble" race: Reduce every trait to minimum except reproduction and env resistance. No advanced traits.

Use my KanesS shipset for this- those traits suit them well=-)

Tribbles.

This would definetly be a disadvantage. Especially the lower ship combat numbers. And with the other numbers lowered as well you'd be hard pressed to come up with a numerical advantage to offset it. You'd have to spread like a virus over the quadrant and really crank out the research facilities to have a shot. I think this would be the toughest challange of any I've heard so far, other then the neutral one. And even the neutral one is likely to kick tribble behind if thye ever try taking them out of their homesystem.