| A new better AR? |
Sat, 28 February 2004 21:32  |
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Alternate Reality races are designed to live in space, without the constraints of planets. In their current form, they still need planets, though I'm really not sure why - they'd presumably live in orbit of the star, and use the planets only for mining.
Perhaps by the time of FreeStars they'll have evolved a bit more and become true gypsies.
Instead of living on starbases, they can live on freighters themselves - reproducing like Inner Strength, and mining from planets as they go. They don't build colony pods at all, but they have a special Mothership hull (they start with it of course) with a fuel generator and a space dock that allows for construction on the fly. Now in order to construct stuff, they'll need colonists in the mothership fleet, as well as enough minerals. Perhaps the colonists can only reproduce while in orbit of a suitable star, so habitability values would still be important. Or they could simply not have a habitability range. In any case, they'll be totally dependent on remote mining - not only this, but in need of good engines and cloaking as well.
Fun toys for this race could include mobile mass drivers or stargates, as well as bigger mothership hulls.
Naturally they would be enemies of Space Demolition races...
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| Re: A new better AR? |
Mon, 01 March 2004 09:51  |
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 LEit |
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I won't be modifying the AR (or any other PRT) for the first version. Once that's done if some one wants to make the changes they are of course free to do so.
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I would think that you would need to remove the death while traveling, and it seems better if they still have to use stars to grow, but otherwise it sounds very neat. What if the capacity of the mothership hull was based on con tech? That way they would still need to research con, but not need to build new ships for all their colonies every few tech levels. Or the mothership could be upgraded like their starbases used to be.
