Space monsters

[klausD]

I think the easiest way to have space monsters in the game is to create some really good graphics of space monsters and send them to MM. IMO this will inspire Aaron to add them. (it shows him the dedication of SE4 fans for his game)

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Klaus

[dogscoff]

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The neutrals could have a 'religious' awe of the beast and turn out to support it when it goes into combat against your ships. It's their "god" after all. If you are fighting with it, they are darn well gonna help it out.
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Woah, major Space Empires / Black & White crossover happening here...

Now *that* would be addictive...

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"Uh, I think so, Brain, but balancing a family and a career ... oooh, it's all too much for me. "

[Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz]

Baron, a suggestion would be swarms of "space locusts" implimented as Groups of organic tech fighters.

Could have them drain organic value from any planet that they successfully blockaded.

That would require a new component which acted like an organic miner + solar converter to convert organics to supplies.

Similarly, "sentient energy fields" would drain radioactives and "trillions" (from an old children's SF story) would drain minerals.

Suicide_Junkie could no doubt create a nomadic race/species around the tech.

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Resistence is futile.

[Nitram Draw]

That would be a cool tech, draining resources when you blockade. It would make lifting a blockade fast a necessity.

[Sinapus]

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Originally posted by dogscoff:
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The neutrals could have a 'religious' awe of the beast and turn out to support it when it goes into combat against your ships. It's their "god" after all. If you are fighting with it, they are darn well gonna help it out.
/QUOTE

Woah, major Space Empires / Black & White crossover happening here...

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Damn, I'm still feeling silly. I just thought of those natives that worshipped Mothra on some old kaiju film.

[Baron Munchausen]

The more these 'space monsters' become unlike ships, though, the more difficult it is to deal with them in the way you'd expect to deal with them. How do you go into combat against an "energy cloud"? What will represent it on the combat grid? The fighters as a swarm of smaller creatures is doable, I guess. But beyond that you're really talking about a different type of random event than a space monster. Not that these wouldn't be useful or interesting to add to the game. Something like the "Black Cloud" that settles into your system and changes the climate/value of various planets for example.

[Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz]

Was thinking of fighters or a baseship using energy tech as in zippy's(?) mod.

The "trillions" could again be fighters using crystal tech.

An alternative for the energy monster would be a randomly moving storm cloud. Can a planet occupy the same location as a storm?


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Resistence is futile.