Planet Plague

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by Gryphin:
The way to use this strategicly is to build a Fast ship with a medical bay and mothball it till / if you ever need it.

If your're playing against human players, upgrade the mothballed ship to higher level med bays as you research them. Just in case someone decides to be a wiseguy and starts hitting your planets with higher level plague bombs. AFAIK, the random event only produces a level 1 plague.

[ August 10, 2002, 14:43: Message edited by: Arkcon ]

[Elowan]

Here's a component/tech that I'm inclined to mod out - in point of fact - I think that I will. In Moo - using biologicals damages your rep big time.

[Baron Munchausen]

We could also ask MM to mod the negative reaction into the game. An extra line in AI_Anger would not be too difficult, I think. I'd still like to see bio-weapons require 'specialization' to the race they are supposed to kill, though. It's silly for one bio-weapon to kill any and every race equally well.

[ August 10, 2002, 20:41: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

[Jmenschenfresser]

I honestly don't know what happens when a plague reduces a planet pop to zero, but you could mod it to kill off even a large pop pretty quick. Might make it a viable kamakazi weapon.

[Krsqk]

Planets with zero pop work just like planets colonized with zero pop--you get the planet, but you can't do anything.

AFAIK, you can't mod how quickly a plague kills pop, except by setting the damage level higher (range Plague Level 1 to Plague Level 5). I think the algorithm is hardcoded for actual per-turn deaths--but Level 5 is definitely a ton more effective than Level 1.

[Q]

Originally posted by Krsqk:
Planets with zero pop work just like planets colonized with zero pop--you get the planet, but you can't do anything.

No, when the population has died completely from a plague (not from food contamination in contrast) the colony will disappear.

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by Q:

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Originally posted by Krsqk:
Planets with zero pop work just like planets colonized with zero pop--you get the planet, but you can't do anything.

No, when the population has died completely from a plague (not from food contamination in contrast) the colony will disappear.

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That's right, plagued colonies disappear when the polulation dies. As far as I've seen lately, the neutron bomb is the only weapon that leaves empty colonies.

Edit: corrected accidental mispelling, honest totally accidental

[ August 12, 2002, 01:53: Message edited by: Arkcon ]