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Re: Pirates!

Mon, 24 October 2005 11:59

vonKreedon

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I would ban IS so that the Pirate's cloaks don't get negated by the IS Tachyon Detectors.

At the start I'd give the pirates FFs/DDs with Shadow Shield/Overthruster/Warp 9 engine (Pirates have to be fast) and Rogues with the Pick-pocket.

I'm not sure how to most thematically handle Pirate production and research. The Pirate's main means of gaining ships is to either capture them or be given them, along with a "Letter of Marque", by a great power so that the Pirate can then prey on the shipping of some other great power. But Pirates also need havens to refuel and repair, if not to produce and research, so they would need some sort of population capability. I was thinking that perhaps the Pirates should be OWWs and have a OWW secondary IS race. This would enable them to populate planets and put up SD/SB, but would prevent these populations from really being productive. Most Pirate research would come from non-standard means: SS spying bonus, MT trading, trading with players, storming player worlds.

I also think it would be a good idea if the player races could not set each other to Friend, but could set the Pirates to Friend as this would encourage the players to work with the Pirates rather than band together and simply wipe out the Pirates.

Obviously I am quite taken by this game idea.

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		Pirates! By: DTITAN on Mon, 10 October 2005 22:42
		Re: Pirates! By: Ptolemy on Mon, 10 October 2005 23:10
		Re: Pirates! By: Micha on Tue, 11 October 2005 04:47
		Re: Pirates! By: mazda on Tue, 11 October 2005 07:05
		Re: Pirates! By: Kotk on Tue, 11 October 2005 09:25
		Re: Pirates! By: DTITAN on Tue, 11 October 2005 11:26
		Re: Pirates! By: vonKreedon on Tue, 11 October 2005 12:02
		Re: Pirates! By: DTITAN on Tue, 11 October 2005 12:53
		Re: Pirates! By: Micha on Tue, 11 October 2005 16:56
		Re: Pirates! By: vonKreedon on Tue, 11 October 2005 17:16
		Re: Pirates! By: dethdukk on Tue, 11 October 2005 19:23
		Re: Pirates! By: DTITAN on Tue, 11 October 2005 20:48
		Re: Pirates! By: vonKreedon on Wed, 12 October 2005 00:28
		Re: Pirates! By: dethdukk on Wed, 12 October 2005 01:35
		Re: Pirates! By: Warchild on Wed, 12 October 2005 21:03
		Re: Pirates! By: icebird on Wed, 12 October 2005 22:45
		Re: Pirates! By: DTITAN on Thu, 13 October 2005 11:36
		Re: Pirates! By: gible on Fri, 14 October 2005 01:47
		Re: Pirates! By: icebird on Fri, 14 October 2005 12:39
		Re: Pirates! By: dethdukk on Fri, 14 October 2005 12:48
		Re: Pirates! By: vonKreedon on Fri, 14 October 2005 13:04
		Re: Pirates! By: DTITAN on Fri, 14 October 2005 14:07
		Re: Pirates! By: icebird on Sat, 15 October 2005 00:47
		Re: Pirates! By: Micha on Sat, 15 October 2005 03:12
		Re: Pirates! By: gible on Sun, 23 October 2005 23:35
		Re: Pirates! By: vonKreedon on Mon, 24 October 2005 11:59
		Re: Pirates! By: EDog on Tue, 25 October 2005 01:43
		Re: Pirates! By: gible on Thu, 27 October 2005 05:54
		Re: Pirates! By: DTITAN on Sat, 29 October 2005 01:02
		Re: Pirates! By: Micha on Sat, 29 October 2005 03:02
		Re: Pirates! By: gible on Sat, 29 October 2005 08:37
		Re: Pirates! By: dethdukk on Tue, 08 November 2005 10:17
		Re: Pirates! By: Kotk on Tue, 08 November 2005 13:30
		Re: Pirates! By: dethdukk on Tue, 08 November 2005 20:07
		Re: Pirates! By: gible on Tue, 08 November 2005 20:59

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