It seems to me the main alternative to those flippant tech descriptions is a bunch of weighty technobabble. Personally, I would prefer technobabble. Besides, being a science fiction game, is it not already "silly" from a scientific perspective? And in any case, mods are optional.
Yeah, I definitely agree that the humor isn't all that entertaining. But I don't mod, so sorry, can't do anything except BUMP.
i swear earlier i read a slightly different post where you said you made the name up... You probably did. I did a minor edit of my post sometime after my original. I must have cut that out. We have been talking about how we could transfer funds electronically between Earth and its colonies, but I think that this is all a moot point. Money today is really more of a "space holder" for future goods one intends to own, essentially it is what we u
i'm not sure how cosmologists explain the presence of heavier elements (though now i'm really curious, perhaps tomorrow at work i'll try to find an answer). super nova Yep, that's it. The heat and pressurized shock waves formed by an exploding star create adequate conditions for heavy elements to form. Also, note that all reactions don't proceed with 100% predictability. Even in a star, there are
Some kind of near light communication would be necessary Why settle for near-light communication when we can achieve light speed communications already? Perhaps you didn't quite think that through... I was thinking, what if the same techniques that were proposed for warping space were modified so that we could project small, variable warp rifts through sp
also, if Alcubierre bubbles tickle your fancy, you might want to check out Krasnikov tubes. Ooooooohhhhh that's cool. That would actually put some literal meaning to the term "hyperlane", like in Star Wars.
startrek? that one came and went already? no, the one that's coming in 2008 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_trek_11 As for me, Star Trek looks interesting, and I also want to see Beowulf whenever its supposed to come out. There was some sort of meteor Armageddon horror movie I saw in trailers that looked interesting, but I don't know what its called.
There's always the possibility of FTL communications; the Alcubierre drive is an example of how we could move entire ships, let alone a string of photons FTL, but this requires the use of theoretical "negative energy", which would require ridiculous sums of normal energy (like millions of stars working together, that kind of energy) to harness, even given the technology to do it. However, we are simply nowhere near any sort of breakthrough in anything FTL. I thought quantum entanglement
The problem with any interstellar relations is simply the distance. It would take 10 years to transmit any information from colony to planet, and 10 years to return if any, so direct relations are out of the question. The only feasible way I imagine it would work is that before the colony ship was even sent, a company would be formed around it ("Galactic Imports", or whatever you like), and various interested parties would sponsor the colony (their money would build the ships, recruit colonist
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I believe when you customize a race you can set their AI behavior; there is a generic AI, or there is one for each (pre-made) race. I think that the race specific AI's have these "grudges" coded into them, but I don't know of a way to isolate them and place them in other AI's, or a way to make a grudge against a custom race. You could give a custom race the Torian behavior and they would dislike the Drengin, but thats about the extent of it. Alternatively, I think at the start of a
If I remember my physics right, wouldn't that generate a force in the direction of tavel of the ship (perpendicular to the spin, right?) I think you're thinking of electromagnetic forces, where a spinning magnet or a solenoid generates an orthogonal EM force. Would a fleet be better? What I envision is a staggered fleet, where individual ships (we'll just say medium-sized, despite our lack of a frame of
Just for construction purposes, its more feasible to have a fleet of ships rather than one huge ship. Or at least you would build several ships that could dock together, forming a composite ship from the modules.
Even a for a small colony of 1000 people, we are gonna need large industrial and storage complexes. I think that you are overestimating the quality of life people need. A feasible colony is going to have to cut every corner they can, and quite simply, a colony of 1000 just isn't going to have this much equipment. Much of this depends on the conditions of the planet, but assuming roughly Earth-like conditions, tents would serve for housing and storage o
I think that colony ships would be very specialized according to what was on the destination world. A given colony ship can only carry so many resources, the colonists would soon have to use their surrounding resources. At this point we might be able to receive more detailed information on a given world from more advanced space probes, and then ships we send there would be built and equipped specifically for whatever resources we detected. Power could be generated by exploiting natu
Well, this isn't exactly what you asked for, but I had this idea for a basic premise to wrap a plot around, just throwing it out there. You mentioned that we would probably receive information about other planets from probes and such before we colonized. What if we found a "paradise" planet (Planet class 30, of course ), and we sent a colony ship(s) with millions of people to this planet. Being far aw
I like this idea. I think that one of the major flaws of GalCiv2, if not the biggest flaw, is its lack of "positional strategy". This game is all about crunching the numbers to your advantage, whether its in balancing your economy or designing ships, and there is simply no way around this. Personally, I've always played strategy games, such as Starcraft and Red Alert (granted those are RTS', but close enough) with the philosophy "get away with the most using the least". I feel more satisfied
Ah, I've seen this myself many times, particularly when I lose starbases, I will still have the sensor radius of that starbase revealed permanently.
Just for the numbers: A standard power plant provides a 25% increase to all factories. Meaning that if you have 4 factories, building a power plant will have the same increase as building another factory. A 50% power plant (forgot the name) provides the equivalent of a factory if you already have 2 factories. Basically, if you plan on devoting three or more tiles to manufacturing, build a power plant on one of them. The research coordinators work the same way, they p
Here's an example: Suppose I have a planet with 10 factories and 10 research centers. If I set the economy slider on 100% and the social and research sliders at 50%, I'll be using all my capacity. I think you would run at half capacity factories and half capacity labs, not full capacity. I think that was the point, you are limited by a certain spending amount, which doesn't make sense, because you should be able to spend at 200% (if you can affo
I was thinking: what if tourism money, instead of being a sort of "bonus income", was actually taken from other civs' tax revenues. After all, if all your citizens are off touring my empire, they are buying my products and paying me taxes, not you. Perhaps this would be more or less effective based off of the proportion of other civs' income/population (richer people buy more souvenirs), and of course, how many tourists you actually attract. This would increase the power
Well, you're right, FTL is possible with negative energy, we might have any number of technologies in the far future, etc. But I was under the impression that you were trying to be more conservative with the technological settings, a "hard" sci-fi. Otherwise, just do what you want, make what you need.
Speaking of paradoxes... God states that his creation, the universe is inexplicable and cant be understood This fallacy alone proves to me that god cant exist. If God doesn't exist, how could he have possibly told you that his creation is inexplicable? Therefore, a nonexistent God didn't tell you that creation is inexplicable. Therefore you have no evidence to come to your conclu
there would be no reason to play any other game, ever. Or do anything else! Ha ha, yeah, screw life! The graphics aren't good enough anyways.
Er, what did you say? This is a sentence structure I am unfamiliar with.
as for a gamma ray burst, it's an interesting idea, but even if the Earth lost its entire ozone layer, i don't see that as presenting much more of a challenge than terraforming another planet. it'd be disasterous, but it wouldn't cripple civilization throughout the whole system, would it? It depends on how much the colonies were supported by Earth at that point. Remember, if you opt for a longer burst that lasted minutes, the entire surface would be inc