Fun Mod Concept

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Add another 'imperial ego' to the wiki page: 'Winning a PBW game as Waldo.'

[Kamog]

How can we stop Waldo from building more ships? The dreadnought will need a space yard on it so that it could construct fighters, mines and drones. The race will have to possess the technology they needed to build their super dreadnought, so wouldn't they be able to build another one just like it?

...oh, maybe their only dreadnought will use up exactly the amount of resources the race will get each turn to maintain it, so they couldn't pay maintenance on the second one. But then they won't be able to build units, either because they'll never have any resources left.

Is there some way to mod a space yard component that only constructs units?

[Suicide Junkie]

Have a super-race gift the ship before the game starts?

Let waldo's race have all the tech knowledge required to repair the components, but not have any available ship hulls to put them in.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

The construction bay can't use all three resources, Waldo units don't need all three.

[Hugh Manatee]

*commences brainstorming*

I'd just let them keep their planet but make the thing hard to kill. Ever see Lexx?(cheesy cult sci fi/fanasy show that had a few cool ideas and concepts, but terrible acting and story planning, Lexx=Waldo Mantrid=everyone else.). Lexx could blow planets up and eat the asteroids. I'd say let "Waldo" be a super ship the player could design, it's parts would be super cheap so you could only build it with the opening turn bonus. The player has little resourse storage, enough to build a few drone type units(do mines need maintinence, I don't think drones do).

Player's planet is like the "Cluster" from Lexx, lots of storage, and can produce units but no resource storage and low production each turn, only production(so it can build weapon's platforms and defense drones). You'll have to crunch some numbers to get the "balance" right.

And just so I'm not playing fox the whole game my dreadnaught has a planet killer weapon, shields, regenerating armor, lesser point defense and ship to ship beams, a space yard and repair bay and storage for all the 790 drones, undead assassins and "moth" fighters I need. This way it becomes can they kill me before I kill them. Their units should be cheap, and quickly produced so theyhave a chance to attack my behemoth. Maybe I can't sweep mines so it's possible to trap me and damage me to an extent. And what if I getsealed in a system by warp point closure, do I get an opener or is that part of the strategy?

[Combat Wombat]

narf has a good idea and hugh the super dreadnought will have ample offensive capabilities to attack with if you want. But I do not want Waldo to have any planets he should be completely mobile.