Religious Talisman - unbalancing or not?

[Phoenix-D]

Well it wasn't so much fighters as seekers, really. and you could make fighters viable in other ways- maybe only certain weapons could kill more than one fighter per hit. That way your Heavy Mount APBs with talisman wouldn't butcher fighters..

[Roanon]

Would be nice if you need normal mounts to be able to hit fighters with direct fire. After all, these heavy mounts are much to unwieldy to be able to hit small fast-moving targets . Would give us a real choice how to equip a ship instead of "always use best mount available".

[Fyron]

Check out Adamant Mod if you want lots of choices on how to mount weapons.

[solops]

Originally posted by spoon:
Yes, the talisman is overpowered. However, it does not guarantee a win if you are playing with people who know about how overpowered it is. The "balancing factor" that has emerged amongst experienced players is to gang up against and wipe out anyone who chooses the Religious trait before they get the chance to weild the talisman effectively. So in a way, choosing religious can be more of a liability, which makes for a neat mechanic.

How do you tell when someone has chosen "Religious"?

[UseOfWeps]

Once you've met a race in-game, you can click on their flag at the top left of one of their units or on the empire picture in the diplomacy screen, and one of the tabs lists what starting options that race has, eg advanced storage, religious, etc.

[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by solops:

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Originally posted by spoon:
Yes, the talisman is overpowered. However, it does not guarantee a win if you are playing with people who know about how overpowered it is. The "balancing factor" that has emerged amongst experienced players is to gang up against and wipe out anyone who chooses the Religious trait before they get the chance to weild the talisman effectively. So in a way, choosing religious can be more of a liability, which makes for a neat mechanic.

How do you tell when someone has chosen "Religious"?

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The game is too simple in certain ways. One of them is that it tells you exactly what racial traits a given empire has as soon as you meet them. Stupid.

I hope things like this will be fixed in SE 5.

[spoon]

Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
...it tells you exactly what racial traits a given empire has as soon as you meet them.

Could you mod all the Advanced Traits so they have the same name, like "Secret Advanced Trait", so that when you meet an empire, you only know how many advanced traits they have, but not what they are? Or do duplicate names cause an error?