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Re: make PP what they are suppose to be Tue, 02 August 2005 11:24 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Orca

 
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Right now, nobody except an IS can keep a world inhabited against a lategame PP within 85 lightyears. And keeping them inhabited at 254 is dicey too, unless you can get freighters at all the points where the packets will end up after at year 1. And then keep them there against a PP that wants to destroy the freighters which now can't move. PP's flingers are plenty powerful - the packets act as scanners, and they can terraform (based on the amount of minerals striking the planet). Chance of perm terra is lower, but still rather nasty. Where they fall down is in terms of econ. Like SS, they're rather expensive, and like SS, they can't mine NAS for many points (in the PP's case, it quickly can *cost* them points to take NAS).

Any "official" freestars changes to accomodate strengthening PP are going to be slow and methodical to prevent breaking the pretty good balance Stars! has now. If you wanted to change the mod file, you'd be able to do that (some of your suggestions would be easy enough. Others, like collecting minerals/stealing minerals would require code changes).



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