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[Fyron]

Will our ships have extra supplies or more efficient engines? You can not explore very much of the galaxy with starting supply levels...

[Slynky]

Imperator Fyron said:
Will our ships have extra supplies or more efficient engines? You can not explore very much of the galaxy with starting supply levels...

Maybe he intends on us being on friendly terms with the "imperium" (he said something about being able to refuel below) .

[Fyron]

That depends on how much he intends to do to set up the Imperium... and how many AI empires will there be?

[Slynky]

Imperator Fyron said:
That depends on how much he intends to do to set up the Imperium... and how many AI empires will there be?

Maybe we'll get starmaps of known Imperium locations. And compute necessary supply needs (read: retrofit, perhaps) to do missions.

It's all new to me, so I'm just guessing.

[geoschmo]

I am leaning towards no AI empires at this point. I am just thinking there will be too much that would go wrong with the AI to try and trust them. It would require me to break one of my own rules about playing multiple empires in a game, but well...

I'm thinking the Imperium race, a pirate race, and a civilian race. The civilian race will just be unarmed transport ships flying around. Basically targets for the pirates and players that wish to go bad. I am doing that so the players can prey on the civilians if they choose without nessecarily breaking their treaty with the Imperium. I intend to role play things so as long as an Imperium ship doesn't actually see you attacking a civilian you won't definetly be tagged as a pirate. You'll have to attack an Imperium vessel (suicide) or be really blantant about attacking civilians. Just remember pigs get fat but hogs get slaughtered.

Of course attacking pirates will be encouraged, and attacking other players will be tolerated, unless they happen to be carrying cargo/passengers that are important to the Imperium.

Refueling will be done at the Imperium planets. You will have a military alliance with them at first. As long as you keep that you will be able to refuel. You could also buy solar cells or quontum generators.

[Slynky]

Any particular goal/winning conditions involved in the game? Or is it much like D&D (where character growth and development is the satisfaction)?

[Ryan]

When do you plan to start this, and will we need to upload any special empire files and whatnot?