I don't like my citizens.

from Sins Forums
I've played a lot of 4x strategy games in my day. I remember ripping the plastic off the original master of orion 3 and 1\4" floppies-- or was it a kind of papyrus? Details, details.

Anyway, I'm really digging sins. Lets face it though, I am really having a hard time coming up with a 4x game where I feel less connected to the inhabitants of one of my planets.

In the original MoO, you sent hundreds of millions... even the women and children... (especially the women and children?) to die horribly in combat on the surface of some craptacular alien world against some dinosaur type alien creature.

Oh no, the whatever are bombing some planet. Who cares! I'm bombing their planet. So "300" population dies. Who cares! I killed 400! And I blew up a factory, i hadn't built a factory on that world they bombed yet. Economic warfare at its finest.

Here is planet development:

Click click click click.... wait six minutes.... click click.... crap no bonuses, click click click click... click click click. My citizens don't even DO anything for me. Except pay taxes. But hell! Beating them would extract those taxes too, and im not allowed to do that! THey just sit on their precious little planets that I cleared and colonized, and then fly around the planet in circles endlessly like ants who just found a bunch of little mounds of cocaine to eat. And then, when someone bombs them (because I hate them too much to defend them properly) they just keep driving around the surface! But I got to hand it to them-- even when population gets to zero, if you stop the attack, they somehow grow back... from zero population. A healthy planet amazingly creates babies, i guess.

So lets see, citizens give me money, which they damn well should be giving me anyway.

They dont:
-give me crystal
-give me metal
-build my ships
-bother to find anythign worth a crap on the surface of the planet (might as well let the planet get taken over, then retake to explore it again?)
-research technology (somehow-- my people developed space travel in orbital research installations, before discovering how to build orbital research installations)

So anyway, my citizens suck, and I hope I can win the game in time that it doesn't matter that someone is bombing them back to the stone age.

~~thio
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
lol
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
You know, begun a leader of empire is will take care of people and keep people and living thing like horse, cow, sheep, or rare anaiml are harmless to people and other aniaiml safe, not people taken care of leader! Leader of Empire service people, not people service Leader of empire, my point of view!
Galactic Civilizations IV
Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
I would love being able to 'increase culture' by killing citizens, forcing them as slaves (lowering culture) and the such. That would be fun!

But seriously, that would be really fun to have.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
It's useful to think of population as, say, billions of people. "0" doesn't mean you killed everyone, it means there's statistically not enough people to really count. Plus..it wouldn't work otherwise.

Who says they don't build your ships or give you crystal or give you metal? Who do you think operates the extractors or frigate factories? If a planet is explored, you can't explore it again to find more stuff, it's just like real life - if something exists on the planet, you will see it after exploring and it will stay there.
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
Leader of Empire service people, not people service Leader of empire, my point of view!
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Lies! I will make caligula and nero look like the olsen twins before I'm done with these backward kneed little v-whatever chumps!

Who says they don't build your ships or give you crystal or give you metal? Who do you think operates the extractors or frigate factories?
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One word:

Robots.

Citizens this pathetic couldn't build anything so cool as a frigate-- let alone a battleship. They only even build one thign on the surface of the planet: bomb shelters. Wimps!
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
Holy... talk about nit-picking. LOL. Someone needs a hug (but not from me).
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
But..but..space lasers.

Okay, you're probably right about the robots. They're probably sending all their previous extractor crews to go fly around in Arcova Scout Frigates and get blown up by hilariously small pirate fleets.