Return to Orion- Sphereworld PBW game.

[Evil Rich]

I have to say, I hadn't thought this one through as much as you guys.

I hadn't thought about trading colony ships, presumabley if you analyise a ship with a different colony module on you get the colony tech, which is the most rewarding abuse of the tech system.

As suggested I suppose the only way round it is the honor system or restricting people to there starting planet types, neither of which seem entirely appealing.

My instinct is that it would be better to simply agree not to trade any ships at all inc colony ships & transports.

If you want to buy slaves off each other then just trade planets, and return them if necessary when finished. Or just colonize a planet in someone else territory and then give it to them.

Then I suppose you could colonize all the planets of your starting type in there systems and then hand them over. Again hopefuly the difficulty involved would limit the abuses.

[Evil Rich]

Ah Nuts,

I'm not sure I agree with myself.

Rather than risk arguments, accusations and strife, when somebody goes all out to research one of the colonization techs early, and everybody else’s suspects them of wrong doing, I reckon everything allowable by the game should be permissible.

Turn the options off but accept that ship trading is OK. I suppose this means that everybody’s going to get the three colonization techs quickly, which is a pain, but c’est la vie.

The tech trading should become less of an issue, but until SE5 it looks like were stuck with it.

[Alpha Kodiak]

Originally posted by Evil Rich:
Ah Nuts,

I'm not sure I agree with myself.

Rather than risk arguments, accusations and strife, when somebody goes all out to research one of the colonization techs early, and everybody else’s suspects them of wrong doing, I reckon everything allowable by the game should be permissible.

Turn the options off but accept that ship trading is OK. I suppose this means that everybody’s going to get the three colonization techs quickly, which is a pain, but c’est la vie.

The tech trading should become less of an issue, but until SE5 it looks like were stuck with it.

I think this sounds like the best alternative. As stated, this removes the grounds for arguments and accusations. At least the only way to trade tech (including colonization) is to actually swap ships, which takes much more effort than just agreeing to trade a whole shopping list of technologies.

[Fyron]

I think this sounds like the best alternative. As stated, this removes the grounds for arguments and accusations. At least the only way to trade tech (including colonization) is to actually swap ships, which takes much more effort than just agreeing to trade a whole shopping list of technologies.

How about this: I trade a shipyard and a ship with all the comps I want to trade to you, and you give a shipyard and a ship to me. I use your shipyard to analyze the ship you gave me, and you use my shipyard to analyze my ship. Then, we give the shipyards back to the other party.

[Evil Rich]

Here, we still seem to be waiting for the same bloke to load up his empire.

While we've been waiting someone else has joined, which is good, and has been sorted enough to get his empire up already.

Without being overly pushy, I am addicted to this bloody game, so is there a deadline before we start anyway.

[Deathstalker]

He has been emailed to upload his empire, I shall wait a couple of days at the most before taking 'other' actions. Quite sorry for the delay guys.

[Unknown_Enemy]

I just can't see some benificial ruler doing it. Immigration and emmigration sure, it happens in real life. (but again, those pop liners are sure targets for capture or blowin'up.)

Uuuurk ?
Whaz-this bloody freakinn uman speaking of ???
If they were'nt worthy being warboyz they are catle.

Catle is cheap.