Oberlus wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 7:39 am
Three adequate planet environments in addition to adequate in GG or asteroid... I don't like that they get overall very good habitability prospects when compared to most playable species. Bots should be patches, good for filling gaps (including huge gaps when your starting species is of the opposite environment and also narrow tolerance with very few good planets around), but this is excessive, IMO.
Well, we are still brainstorming. I think we still have a lot of room to work-out these ideas.
- Harmoniliths: preferred Inferno-Toxic-Ocean (adequate), GGs hostile and no asteroids.
Although I'm not completely opposed to a "broken-up" habitability preference, especially for an artificial species, I feel like I need to ask your reasoning here. Why do none of them get desert preference? Why do two of them get ocean? Why do Harmonliths (the living crystals) get gas giants?
- Envirobrains: preferred Swamp-Ocean-Terran (adequate), no GGs and no asteroids.
Personally if any of single one the artificial species was going to get gas-giants I'd give it to the envirobrains, myself.
- Exobots: preferred Tundra-Barren-Irradiated, no GGs and asteroids poor.
Unless there has been a change in recent test versions, Exobots get Barren-Radiated-Inferno, are you proposing we change their preference?
Personally I'd prefer giving them each 1/3 of the habitability wheel, I would also prefer that either all of them get access to gas-giants or none of them do, as gas-giant size and abundance is a pretty big advantage. I don't want any one of them to be a must-have over the others.
I don't understand that "take full advantage of the crystal special" thingy. You put whatever you want in the asteroid belt (well, Exobots or Fulver), set them to growth focus, and you get a population boost for all your lithic species in your whole supply-connected empire, which is what I consider the best outcome. Moreover, if harmoniliths aren't going to do industry focus, they can't really take full advantage of the crystals when not set to growth.
Fulver get narrow tundra environmental preference, not asteroid belts. Exobots are robotic not lithic. If only one artificial species is going to get asteroids, at any habitability, it should be Harmonliths, so that can take advantage of the growth focus. We also haven't established weather or not Harmonoliths will or won't have industry focus. If they need it they should get it. Maybe as an upgrade. Right now no-one can take advantage of them as a growth special.
labgnome wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2019 1:12 pmMaybe the artificial species can be upgraded in different ways. So maybe the Envirobrain upgrade gets them more environments? Maybe other species start off at bad or average for their special focus, and the upgraded versions get better, while Envirobrains start off better, but just get access to more environments?
I love this idea.
So upgrades are in. I should ask at what tier are you planning on placing the artificial species? We should figure out if they are going to be early-game (tier 1 or 2) or mid-game (tier 3 or 4). That way I know weather or not to give them one or two upgraded versions.
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