magic9mushroom wrote on Thu, 22 May 2014 13:32

Stars! AutoHost standard rules (proposed)

A pretty good try, mostly, I'd say.

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Permissible race designs
- Races with the primary racial trait "Claim Adjuster" must take immunity to at least two environmental variables.
- Races with the primary racial trait "Jack of All Trades" must not take the lesser racial trait "No Advanced Scanners".
- In games not using the game option "Accelerated BBS Start", races with the primary racial trait "Hyper-Expansion" must take a listed colonist growth rate of 10% or less.

This has no business inside the "Standard". It isn't even close to any average "racial restrictions" used in most games.

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False Public Player Scores - Permitted
- You may use the waypoint-1 task "Load Colonists" and the waypoint-0 task "Unload Colonists".

Same as above.

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Warp 10.04 - Permitted
- You may set waypoints in such a manner that a ship travels more distance than the listed maximum of its warp number.

And now we'll go around creating "new" cheats out of simplest game mechanics?

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Battle board overload - Soft-banned
- If a token under your control is excluded from a battle due to the 256-token limit, you must immediately scrap the fleet containing that token.

And then everybody will be wondering why their game hard-crashed irrecoverably a few turns later.

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0.2% minimum damage - Banned
- You may not assemble a collection of fleets at a single location that is capable of firing more than 100 torpedo/missile salvos per round of battle.

Whoa! And that's supposed to cover most cases with big fleets and large empires gating/gathering defenders?

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Mine damage dodge - Banned
- You may not arrange your ship designs in such a manner that fleets can survive hitting a mine while taking less damage than the mine type's listed "Min damage done to fleet".

And this is supposed to cover all cases of so-called "tanking" too? Or will "tanks" be "soft-banned"? Or perhaps not banned at all?

May I comment on some of your ideas?

You have clearly written:
magic9mushroom wrote on Thu, 22 May 2014 13:32

The point of this list is not to constrain, but to simplify

In the light of the above, I must say I disagree with the following:
magic9mushroom wrote on Thu, 22 May 2014 13:32

Permissible race designs
- Races with the primary racial trait "Claim Adjuster" must take immunity to at least two environmental variables.
- Races with the primary racial trait "Jack of All Trades" must not take the lesser racial trait "No Advanced Scanners".
- In games not using the game option "Accelerated BBS Start", races with the primary