| Game Idea: Ripples in time |
Sun, 01 April 2007 12:37  |
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| PaulCr |
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Registered: February 2007
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It's common knowledge that according to standard physics the maximum speed an object can travel at is warp 10 yet Mystery traders appear to routinely exceed this limit and jump in and out of the universe at will.
To do this they must be manipulating space/time and unless they are careful that could lead to unforeseen consequences. MTs however will trade with anybody regardless of there behaviour, why would we expect them to be bothered about the consequences of their movement when they are not concerned with the consequences of who they trade with.
You're probably aware of chaos theory, most commonly represented with a butterfly fluttering it wings causing an hurricane on the other side of the world. The actions of the MTs might have a similar effect.
Game Idea
Occasionally the actions of a mystery trader switching between universes will cause an event to happen in the past that changes how races in the universe developed, there is a 5% chance each year that one of these events may occur. The consequence of the event being that all races in a particular universe get changed to 1 of 9 random PRTs (AR excluded, possibly exclude HE).
Ie someone playing IT from the start of the game may suddenly find that they have become a CA. They still get to keep anything built previously unique to the PRT ie Any/300 gates but forget how to build more and instead learn how to build new stuff, ie Orbital adjusters.
The game would require careful race design since the race needs to remain valid for all PRTs otherwise stars modifies the race drastically to make it valid.
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