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Old September 3rd, 2001, 02:18 AM
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Owch. Think you could clean up some of that multiposting?

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psionic nexus that has 0 space and everything built in and can only ram into enemy ships
Problem: zero components means Zero hitpoints.

If restrictions worked, you could allow only armor on it, with organic armor you'd have the effect you want.

Efficient Megascale Racial trait? How about Half-size & half-cost plating & cabling. You could fit them on baseships and drive em where you want, or build the world with half the normal number of starbases.

Mechanical assimiliation:ie borg
For borg, I reccommend "organic armor boarding parties"
With those, you can't capture through shields or SDDs, but one ship can make lots of attempts and capture lots of ships, since their boarding parties regenerate each turn!
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Wow how did that happen?? oh well ill fix it in the morning.... well some new stuff for you all

Infinite improbability drive a masssivley powerfull engine that is very very very big

Bistromath drive:a engine that puts the iid to its kneeesa even in size

i have a probelem well two questions exectly the second is a two parter well heresthe first how cn i stop peeps from boarding sapace monsters i mean what are they going to do attack the creatures brain till it submits?? and the other is when a fleet leader IE queen of an insect space monster fleet :ie the queen dies alll tbhe other ships should go limp,or do what6 their Last order was and afterwords self destruct,or attack everythig,or self destruct,orjust sit there how can i im-lement these things??

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Old September 9th, 2001, 04:38 AM
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question can i create a planet from thin air?
and space monsters are able to harness resources thru remote mining with drones who gather Organics,and Pollinators who gather Radioactives im thinking i may let them colonize but only the queen and dont have any resource gathering facilitys so the only purpose of colonizing is

A:so no one else can
B:to build weap [platforms and spaceyards and Resupply depots
C:to keep population of other species prisnor
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Spaxce monster components:

CHameleon Carapace:STealth armor

Web ball:unables them to fire for a while

Web rope:tractor beam

Webcloth:a weaker albiet more compact and cheper sheild


Internal goo hased shilding

and some new sizeszz for the buggies

Web:a mine that destroys the engines
Explosive Goo ball:an all around mine
Eggtender:a ship that can carry eggs(sats)that carry larva(fighters)and is very slow


New sizes of regular ships

Anolog COmputer:a sat that has pnly enoguh space for its core but is able to do alkmost anything
Makes peeps happy
makes troops fight better
makes you never miss
gives supplies
and all sorts of nice stuff

and there is a faciltiy deep thought witch does the same but only for on planet
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[b]Wow how did that happen?? oh well ill fix it in the morning....


No problem, Lord Kodos: I cleaned 'em up. I believe it happens if you press Submit multiple times for the same message (if the board is slow it looks like nothing happens, but it really does - hence multiple Posts appear).


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thanks why am i up?? oh well some new stuff
did i mention all space monster ships and compnents heal over time and share exp
M.D cannon :yaknow form enders game

Psionic cloak field: a cloak that requires less supplys but for psychics

Temporal claok rovides a level of cloak only temporal sesnors detect as it exists in another time


New bug stuff again for space monsters

Pnumatized carapace:adds bonus movement and counts as armor but requires rad

Photsynthsis glands:generates supplys from stars

Crystalline carapce:when hit turns damage to sheilds

Any ideas on how to put supernovas in the game?it would suck you into the center but the center would not destroy only damage you but then in a few turns it would turn to either a Nuetron star or black hole



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M.D cannon :yaknow form enders game
Molecular Disruption Device. The "Little Doctor" Can destroy any planet or star. Size of a missile. Good luck balancing that.

Web:a mine that destroys the engines
Easy. Just change its weapon damage from "normal" to "Engines only"

Internal goo - Phased shilding.
How about making it like my BuckTube Gel Armor? Then it is actually internal, and works against every weapon in the game (excepting Psi-Subverters) In your case, you could make it protect against Engine Destroying attacks too, since the AI can design ships with more than the legal limit of engines It would be described as a honeycomb filled with high-damage-resistance goo, critical components are placed in core cells.

Photsynthsis glands:generates supplys from stars
Glands? Wouldn't it make more sense to have it be a Photosynthesizing Skin? Could be armor, or described as fitting under armor. Would likely come in very small segments, since it is nearly impossible to destroy the entire skin at once.
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how cn i stop peeps from boarding sapace monsters i mean what are they going to
do attack the creatures brain till it submits??
Something very much like that happens in one of the _Wild Cards_ novels, but can't remember which specific volume.

How about this component?

Immune system - boarding defense (same ability as Security Station)

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