Space Monsters and other villains

I think it was one of the MoO games that had this and I really liked that feature. I remember losing many a scout ship because of some gigantic flying worm or dragon

If there are ancient ruins...

why not whatever destroyed them.

like the giant cornocopia in star trek?

ooooh scary!

I must have berserkers

and i hate to rip off a robotech idea, but if you play with ruins that should risk activating "sleeping" verserkers

everyone played homeworld, right?

that plotline/scheme waswell - explored i.m.o. there

so...

WHERE ARE MY BERSERKERS?

Anyone who wants power; by definition, cannot be trusted with it...[/b]

MM has some built-in support for monsters. If you've looked in Settings.txt at the visibility settings, there is a space monster field. However, this support was never finished. I'm sure if enough people request it, however.

*cough* *cough*

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at the very least, we can steal a page from other books..

could ships "out of supply" or command get a loyalty or morale check--

those that fail become pirates?

i mean, if the ships i've seen get scrapped due to maintenance had crews that chose to TAKE what they want...

i think quite a few things mighta changed

can we mod in "pirate" empire that crews switch to?

Anyone who wants power; by definition, cannot be trusted with it...

Books with the name GalCIv and MOO... When will we move away from those ideas and create our own for this very capable game? Instead of monsters how about just space based life forms (hostile or helpful). Mutinies on ships is always a possibility.

* Come on people this isn't Star Trek let's kick soome booty.....

I would love to see those monsters from that recent space sci-fi film that was adapted from a short run TV series (western sci-fi-ish) that I can't place the name of....

Javaslinger

The Reavers(sp) from Firefly/Serenity?

That's it!!!

I always enjoyed the Borg Cube space monster in Birth of the Federation - the cubes themselves would wander into the galaxy randomly and required a significant fleet or a coordinated multi-team effort to defeat.

The best part was though that you couldn't just sit around and wait to accumulate ships: the cube would start assimilating planets if left for too long and they'd begin spewing out more ships. So when one showed up, even if it was on the other side of the galaxy, it became a major priority to deal with it. If you just left it, then 20 turns down the line you'd have a much larger problem right on your borders.

Best space monster ever.

If things like this could be implemented in SEIV as a mod, it'd be great. I guess it's not everyone's cup of tea - some people dislike their well-made strategies being disrupted by a game-altering event. But I always lived for scenarios like these. The unexpected turns make awesome games. Even if it did sometimes show up too early - before you had the tech to properly oppose it. It was just awesome playing out those scenarios.

I honestly love random events. The more random and the more thought required to respond to them, the better! A fairly frequent random event ought to be meteorite strikes, both on planets and ships. Mutinies for ships that are low on supplies (and not within range of a resupply depo) can be a possibility. If the game added support for a "neutral" free wandering race (pirates and nomads!) we could even have those mutinied ships convert to the pirates, complete with space stations that mine minerals, produce supplies, and hide in asteroid belts.

Well, it would certainly be interesting to encounter highly advanced ships from time to time.

Imagine the horror when you stumble on an "ancient" warship, equiped with weapons that far surpasses your own, and shields that can take huge ammounts of punishment. Agile like a frigate, but more space then a battleship. Equiped with the best sensors/ecm, hard to hit it and it hit's you with ease. A ship that would take a [b]warfleet[\b] to disable. I would love to encounter such thing, indeed

I'm willing to sacrify my empire to encounter such one Of course, when I capture it, nobody will stop me then

I'm certain that a specialized AI could be made to behave like pirates. It would take a significant amount of work, however, and I'd say that getting a good normal AI is a more important goal for now. In fact, in a few minutes, I'm going to start on modding the AI now that a more effective base is available.

And I've had ships convert, too. Mine was on the other side of the galaxy and took about 5 years to bring home

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I sure hope the expansion pack adds some much needed atmosphere to the game.Pirates,monsters better events,etc.

i for one really like how this conversation is going...

[quote = Thy Reaper]I'm certain that a specialized AI could be made to behave like pirates. It would take a significant amount of work, however, and I'd say that getting a good normal AI is a more important goal for now. In fact, in a few minutes, I'm going to start on modding the AI now that a more effective base is available.