Star Trek, Quadrants of Conflict

[Ragnarok-X]

Just a small suggestion: Minor races should get 1500 racial points, PLEASE ! This would make the game more interesting for minor race players(like me)

please please

[Intimidator]

Okay, 1500 racial points and a medium sized planet instead of an large one is more than enough penalty.

Inti,

BTW. you will need those points with the Borg at your doorstep

[ April 10, 2004, 13:57: Message edited by: Intimidator ]

[Renegade 13]

Remember, if you choose events to be on Catastrophic, warp points CAN close on their own through natural events. So just because a warp point closes, that doesn't mean someone was cheating. The solution for this would be:

1. Have either no events, or have events on anything but Catastrophic.

2. If a warp point closes (I don't think warp points naturally open but i could be wrong about that) then we could get someone impartial to look at the game file, and take a look at the ships of the players who were in the system at the time of the event. If a warp point closing ship is found, the appropriate measures can be taken, but if its a natural event, the game can go on.

Personally, I favor option 2, because I like having the events on catastrophic. The chance that I could get a message that my star is going nova adds a lot of fun to the game for me . Then again, maybe I'm just masochistic

Please tell me what you think of this.

[EDIT: Warp points do NOT randomly open. Only close. And I was wrong about the severity. The event severity only needs to be High not Catastrophic for a warp point to close.]

[ April 10, 2004, 15:07: Message edited by: Renegade 13 ]

[Aiken]

Originally posted by Renegade 13:


[EDIT: Warp points do NOT randomly open. Only close. And I was wrong about the severity. The event severity only needs to be High not Catastrophic for a warp point to close.]

Yeah, but what can you say about this:
Type := Warp Point - Opened
Severity := High
Effect Amount := 1
...
Start Message 1 := Our scientists have detected fluctuations in [%SystemName], They suspect that a new warp point is forming. We should send a ship to study this phenomenon.
(from Events.txt)

[Intimidator]

We can control it if necessary, but again: 'I trust all of you'

And if in the end game it starts happening twice a turn, I can begin getting suspicious

Inti,

[Renegade 13]

Originally posted by aiken:
Yeah, but what can you say about this:
Type := Warp Point - Opened
Severity := High
Effect Amount := 1
...
Start Message 1 := Our scientists have detected fluctuations in [%SystemName], They suspect that a new warp point is forming. We should send a ship to study this phenomenon.
(from Events.txt)

Well, there's only one thing I can say about that:

Oops

I was looking at the stock events.txt file, not the STM one. For some reason, the stock game doesn't have that event implemented. However, Atrocities did put it in. Guess I should think a little more before moving my fingers on the keyboard!!

[Aiken]

Another question: since we have Stellar Manipulation allowed (except Warp tech) what about Weapons of mass destruction? I'm not an expert in ST universe, but so far I know about only 2 of them: Doomsday Machine and 8472 6-in-the-circle planet destroyer. Opinions?

So the actuall question is: are they allowed? (as the Last resort).

[ April 10, 2004, 18:03: Message edited by: aiken ]