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Re: EPIC

Sun, 07 October 2012 11:51

Altruist

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Combat wrote on Tue, 27 March 2012 00:40

Improbable race development, for example combining IFE with Prop +75% how would a race that struggles with propulsion tech develop such great engines.

Easy...
IFE does not mean "great engines" but ONE great engine: the fuel mizer. When you choose IFE, you usually have decided to stay low-prop for quite a while. See it as "after the first discovery of a decent engine, everybody was content and lost interest in further propulsion-investments".

IT
I wouldn't penalize IT even more. IT is forced to take 2 cheap fields: con and prop. I've tried to design a race and adding a 3rd cheap tech: weapons. The result is horrible.
So, while it is true that the general setting: large/sparse/clumping favours IT, the rules applying to IT make it very difficult to design a decent race. Any IT will be very weak with weap cheap or barely decent with weap exp or normal.
If people disagree, I'd repeat Combat's question: Can you show me the race design?

Combat wrote on Tue, 27 March 2012 00:40

Weap and Con +75% not a handicap for CA in a no tech trade game?

Unfortunately not. The standard CA-monster comes with : TT with bio cheap and rest expensive. With relative narrow habs (at the beginning), the CA can afford superb HP fact/mine settings. The game will last very long, it will be fun and then the CAs will stomp everybody and afterwards fighting it out in between of them.
Might be easiest to just ban CA for this setting.

The game idea I do like and against better knowledge I was tempted several times to take part... but very long and economy focused games are just not my thing.

But when Combat is still interested and enough players show up, I am offering to be the 3rd party and can also do the hosting at autohost. Otherwise... after all this time... perhaps, closing the thread might be an alternative idea.

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