Space Empires 5

[Will]

Originally posted by [K126]Mephisto:
I still don't see why you all want to split the "conditions" field into different variables like gravity and radiation only to manipulate all the variables again with one facility. I do however think it would be nice to have the "conditions" field related to a race, not to all races.

Well, conditions could be made so that each planet had a different condition for each race... but it just seems easier to me if there are a finite number of condition variables that can be compared to the different races, rather than arbitrarily assigning different conditions for each of the different races. In larger games, this could mean keeping only 5-10 variables per planet instead of 20 (if the 20-race limit stays). It also means it'd be a lot easier to introduce a new race in mid-game, if that would be supported.

Manipulating all the variables with one facility would be a very high-tech thing. Right now, humans would be analogous to a very low tech race is SEIV. The terraforming that we're capable of right now would be able to change atmosphere composition very slowly, and temperature. A race later on could change radiation levels perhaps, and atmosphere/temperature more quickly. So, closer to endgame, there could be an all-in-one facility, but for the rest of it they would probably be split into multiple facilities (probably, because someone could always mod it ).