new race suggestion: Lemmings ?

[dogscoff]

Haha - nice idea. Lots of suicide fighters of course.

Nice little racial portrait too (green hair and blue overalls like the psygnosis game=-)

A while back I toyed with the idea of doing a Terence and Phillip (from South Park) shipset. (It was after downloading the New Canadian Empire set - sorry)
All the ships would be badly drawn 2D pictures with their initials (ie ES for escort, LC for light Cruiser) printed on the side in big letters.

I decided against it in the end for reasons of political correctness / not being arsed to do the necessary work.

You could have fun with the ship names file as well. (Guff class, Air Dump class, ArseTrumpet class).


(Oh, and the environment? Methane/ Gas of course=-)

[Baal]

I think that we would have to resurect the old "stupid" AI for this race. It would be fitting

[Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz]

How about really high reproduction and colonization rates and call the race "Tribbles".

Should be very passive, shouldn't covet allies' planets etc.

Should be very hard to scrape off your shoes - i.e. glass all their planets in a system and next turn they've already re-colonized all of them, and 10 more in the next system.

Racial traits should include max reproduction & ship building & maybe min maintenance.

Could be a lot of fun.

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Resistence is futile.

[Hydraa]

Tribbles would also have max happiness (unless the klingons are in the game)

[Lemmy]

like the title says, or something like that

the basic idea is:
-a lot of them, high reproduction maybe
-can build only small ships, so you're forced to build a lot of them, just like lemmings
-easy to kill/hit, just like lemmings, giving them defense penalty perhaps
-lemmings are small, so they can hide in enemy territory quite easily, so they can spy on them, a bonus to intel
-that's is all i can think of right now

well, what do you think?

and no, my nick isn't from Lemmings, really, it isn't

[This message has been edited by LemmyM (edited 02 April 2001).]

[DirectorTsaarx]

How about earthworms (anyone else remember Earthworm Jim?)? Low intelligence, high luck, high strength; maybe high cunning, since they should be able to "squirm" out of political arrangements...

Or maybe dolphins. Supposedly they left Earth just before the Vogons destroyed it (in the "Hitchhiker's Guide" series). High intelligence, very peaceful; probably not so good at resource production...

[Magus38]

For that matter why not have the Gaelic Hunting Chickens in the game. Death dealing chicken creatures, dyed in warlike colours, cousins to MOO2's Alkari. Honourable and warlike, with an inflexible "pecking order".