L&P Spore (expansion) announced
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Kyna on 2008 October 16, 12:48:33
Are you going to apply your modding talents to Spore and make mods to do stuff like this?
If possible. Splotch is nowhere near as responsive to mods as Sims is, though, given the lack of any apparent internal scripting: Everything is hardcoded with only numerical properties being tweakable.
Quote from: Dopp on 2008 October 16, 12:44:18
I was thinking more along the lines of being free to demolish any irritating force empires you come across because you don't need their weapon discounts. They shoot at my ship and then demand 1000000 sporebucks?
I doubt this will change unless you personally care to subscribe to the Force philosophy yourself: Given that the superpowers of the Force philosophy range from "Meh"(Mini-U) to "Totally Useless"(Raider Rally), this may be the ONLY perk of subscribing to Force if such a thing could be made! Mini-U isn't the worst perk out there, but it's hardly amongst the upper perks. At least it's useful in a space dogfight, since it's an allied ship that doesn't bitch at you when it dies.
Dopp:
Actually, I do play with the Warrior archetype almost all the time, despite its non-awesomeness. This is because I enjoy exterminating everything. The raiders are used on my own homeworld to get the bodyguard badge, extra sporebucks and free laughs.
J. M. Pescado:
Yes, but the Sporebucks from dead raiders only applies if you personally kill them, not if they are shot down by turrets. It is also not very much money, probably much less than you could get by vehicle-eating. All in all, it's a useless power that exists only for lulz. Also, it can annoyingly accidentally fire due to its occupation of slot 1, although I have an Undiscovered Shiny aimed at resolving some of that. The Bodyguard badge is basically useless.
Exterminating everyone is nice, though. I Ur-Quan-styled my way through a huge sector of space, destroying all their colonies and enslaving their homeworld. You can cover a lot of ground that way...a lot of now very desolate ground. Seems space is much smaller when you're not trying to colonize every system, and I now go for speed-kills on how fast I can wipe the floor with an empire. Average time to exterminate a Level 3 empire is about 15 minutes now. I maxed out my ship just from looting and burning. I actually got the Large Cargo Hold upgrade from COLLECTOR instead of MERCHANT! That should tell you how much BURNINATING THE COUNTRYSIDE was involved.
Dopp:
Bodyguard badge gives you mega photon missile with having to declare war on anybody, useful for when you do start declaring war on everybody. You can wait just outside the pirate portal and take them all out with a splash damage weapon the moment they appear. The fighters only have 50-100 hp and the bombers about twice that. 1-2 pulse/missile should do. But yeah, basically the raiders are for laughs. The first thing they do is attack you anyway. Some superweapon.
Enslaving the homeworlds? How do you keep them from recolonizing when you don't have those planetary slave shields?
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Dopp on 2008 October 17, 01:53:36
Bodyguard badge gives you mega photon missile with having to declare war on anybody, useful for when you do start declaring war on everybody. You can wait just outside the pirate portal and take them all out with a splash damage weapon the moment they appear. The fighters only have 50-100 hp and the bombers about twice that. 1-2 pulse/missile should do. But yeah, basically the raiders are for laughs. The first thing they do is attack you anyway. Some superweapon.
Yeah, but the photon missiles themselves are basically toys. It's never actually NECESSARY to shoot at anyone when you're at war with them. In fact, this is counterproductive: It is far easier to evade a defending swarm when they are all bunched up than it is when you've killed some and they respawn piecemeal and come at you again from random directions.
Quote from: Dopp on 2008 October 17, 01:53:36
Enslaving the homeworlds? How do you keep them from recolonizing when you don't have those planetary slave shields?
By conquering them? I don't actually do anything special, I just take over the planet. All non-homeworlds are simply burned down for the cash.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page