Intergalactic Civil War !!??

Nitram Draw · #1 April 2nd, 2001, 05:05 PM

I like that idea espescially if the split could result in two full blown empires, not neutrals. Maybe it could even be a andom event so the human players would not have complete control over preventing it.

chewy027 · #2 April 2nd, 2001, 07:03 PM

Making it a random event would definetely put a twist to it. Imagine being at war with someone and all of a sudden half of your empire revolts and forms there own imperium.

The other way you could do it is if you have planets with conquered races on them. Say you wipe out someone and occupy many of their planets. If you don't keep them under control they could go into a massive revolt and reform their conquered empire including any planets you colonized with them and ships stationed on the revolting planets.

And Yes it would be nice if they were a full blown empire not a lowly neutral.

Oggy ben Doggy · #3 April 2nd, 2001, 07:10 PM

I like chewy's idea. Like if you have a bunch of conquored planets and they are rioting, or even if enemy empires use subVersion. Anytime one rebels, there is a chance that others will as well.

Then you pop into ground combat mode. Even if you win, you will lose some ground troops

Q · #4 April 2nd, 2001, 07:17 PM

I don't mind too much if one planet rebels or a planet explodes. Already harder if a star becomes a supernova and kills the entire system. But if half of the empires splits off and turns against you?? And this as a random event???? In my opinion this would turn SE IV from a strategy game to a game of chance and I really would not like it.

Master Belisarius · #5 April 2nd, 2001, 07:23 PM

I must agree with "Q". Have not sense to me, if we're talking about a full random event.

Nitram Draw · #6 April 2nd, 2001, 07:28 PM

Half an empire would be a lot but how about one system rebelling or planets rioting? You have to give them a small chance of survival otherwise it is no different than what we have now.

Suicide Junkie · #7 April 2nd, 2001, 08:19 PM

One of the major problems with the rebelling, is that the rebels start with just a planet, likely having unbalanced or non-existant resource production.
I think that when a rebellion happens, the game should figure out which of your planets each of your units/ships is closest to.
If they're close to the rebel's planet, they will join the rebellion.

That way, the rebels will have a chance to do something. If the rebelling planet immediately built a mineral miner & started with full resource storage, then they wouldn't just lay down and die like they do now.