Lost Eden - playtesters requested please

[Kilkakon]

Well nothing else seems to be working. Oh well. I'll still document my progress, even people just talking about my stats is better than nothing, please.

Jack is being turned from a totodile into a scrafty, but otherwise will remain the same. Just thought I needed some more colour variation in the second 7 (the first 7 are lovely, the second are a bit bland). I've also decided to keep Morgius, as he seems to work well as the last human
leader and he can be quite intimidating with his bandana and loin cloth. Believe it.

Other leaders I may redraw (same person, just new picture) are Victoria, Darrus and Navius. I'll see how I feel about it and se if I get any interest at all.

Here's an update on Latios Express' text file. Comments please.

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;
; *** LOST EDEN ***
;
; Latios Express
; by Kilkakon
;

#EXPRESS
Latios Express, The Aviator, Express, M, 1, Leedarus, M, -1, 1, 0, 1, 0,
TECH, Human1, SOCIAL, -PLANET, SOCIAL, -PROBE, SOCIAL, ---SUPPORT, UNIT, 12, DRONE, 4, FACILITY, 33, SOCIAL, +ECONOMY
Goal, We Must Be Free, INDUSTRY,
Goal, All Must Die, nil,
Express, Express
Nonais, Anna, Nonais' Launch
Lieutenant, brave, cold, rapid, decentralised,
Ice Tycoon
establish a thriving air transport system
to reduce the distances between us all. I dream of building an airport in every city
exploiting our trade networks with his flight network
exploiting our trade networks with your flight network
clouding out the sun with your overwhelming flyer squadron
dropping snowballs at innocent people from above
dropping snowballs at innocent people from above
overzealous expansion of my flight network
pathetic attempts at playing transport magnate, M2
infrastructure, M1
congested airways, M2
airfare, M1
rapid, accessable transport when you need it
my airforce
Council Aerospace Law

#BASES
Global Terminus
Interceptor Station
Above The Clouds
To Chase A Dream
Memento Mori
Cold Front
Rapid Transit
Destination
Mount Frost
Airlift Express
Latios Hatchery
Tree of Transportation
Tower of Transit
Launch Facility
Leedarus' Vision
Snowfall Platform
Icy Departure
Refueling Station
Cloudsparkle Terminal
Mach Three
Midnight Express
Flight Network
Zero Distance
Already There
Pilot's Retreat
Extreme Speed
From On High
Express Departure
Baggage Claim
Pitfall Valley
Mount Snowflake
Eon Express
Luster Terminal
#END

#WATERBASES
Refuge Terminus
Soul Dew Shoals
Floating Hangar
Seaside Terminal
The Carrier
Naval Stopover
Latios Island
#END

#BLURB
[haven't done it yet]
^
^        -- Lieutenant Leedarus
^           "Per Ardua ad Astra"

#DATALINKS1
^LEADER: {Lieutenant Leedarus}
^SPECIES: {Male Totodile}
^AGENDA: {Global transportation network; increasing of trade}
^TECH: {Human Flexibility}
^

#DATALINKS2
^+1 ECONOMY: {Air transport connects otherwise seperated people, increasing trade}
^-3 SUPPORT: {Maintaining a flight network takes considerable resources}
^-1 PLANET: {Little regard for the natives' way of life}
^-1 PROBE: {Large, unwieldy transit system easy to infiltrate}
^Free AIRPORT in every city.
^1 in every 4 citizens are unhappy.
^Begins with a free RANDOM CHOPPER (unique unit).
^{May not pursue All Must Die.}

#FACTIONTRUCE
#xs 440
#caption $CAPTION7
"$TITLE0, this war of ours has gone on long enough. My
vision of global transportation is delayed with every Latios
that I have to reroute to fight you. Let us sign a Blood Truce
and put an end to this Vendetta."

"Very well. I will pledge Blood Truce."
"No. It's not my problem that you can't handle yourself in a fight."

#FACTIONTREATY
#xs 440
#caption $CAPTION7
"Come $NAME1, let me show you my faithful Latios, Solace. What do you think?
He loves flying and my dream is to share his gift with every soul in
Eden. Would you sign a Treaty of Friendship so I can count on your support?"

"He is beautiful. And yes, I'll sign."
"No. I like to keep my distance."

[Buster's Uncle]

For the leaderquote, something about the glory of flying free?

[Kilkakon]

Seems reasonable. I'll see if I get time to do some quotes a bit later today.

Impaler said he was curious about my alphax.txt, so here it is, broken down. Please note that this version of the alphax.txt is not yet released, this is my current dev copy

FUNDAMENTAL RULES

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3,       ; Movement rate along roads
2,       ; Nutrient intake requirement for citizens
4,2      ; Numerator & Denominator for artillery fire damage
2,       ; Max artillery range (larger will break multiplayer)
8,       ; Max airdrop range w/o orbital insertion
10,      ; Nutrient cost multiplier
10,      ; Minerals cost multiplier
80,      ; Technology discovery rate as a percentage of standard
1,       ; Limits mineral increase for mine without road in square
0,       ; Nutrient effect in mine square (0 or -1)
5,       ; Minimum base size to support specialists
1,       ; Drones induced by Genejack factory
7,       ; Population limit w/o hab complex
10,      ; Population limit w/o hab dome
50,      ; Extra percentage cost of prototype LAND unit
50,      ; Extra percentage cost of prototype SEA unit
50,      ; Extra percentage cost of prototype AIR unit
3,2,     ; Psi combat offense-to-defense ratio (LAND unit defending)
3,2,     ; Psi combat offense-to-defense ratio (SEA unit defending)
3,2,     ; Psi combat offense-to-defense ratio (AIR unit defending)
50,      ; Players' starting energy reserves
25,      ; Combat % -> intrinsic base defense
0,       ; Combat % -> attacking along road
15,      ; Combat % -> for attacking from higher elevation
15,      ; Combat penalty % -> attacking from lower elevation
0,       ; Combat % -> Mobile unit in open ground
0,       ; Combat % -> Defend vs. mobile in rough
0,       ; Combat % -> Infantry vs. Base
0,       ; Combat penalty % -> attack after airdrop
25,      ; Combat % -> Fanatic attack bonus
50,      ; Combat % -> Land based guns vs. ship artillery bonus
25,      ; Combat % -> Artillery bonus per level of altitude
50,      ; Combat % -> Trance bonus defending vs. psi
50,      ; Combat % -> Empath Song bonus attacking vs. psi
0,       ; Combat penalty % -> Air superiority unit vs. ground unit
0,       ; Combat % -> Air superiority unit vs. air unit
25,      ; Combat penalty % -> Non-combat unit defending vs. combat unit
50,      ; Combat % -> Comm Jammer unit defending vs. mobile unit
100,     ; Combat % -> Bonus vs. ships caught in port
0,       ; Combat % -> AAA bonus vs. air units
25,      ; Combat % -> Defend in range of friendly Sensor
10,      ; Combat % -> Psi attack bonus/penalty per +PLANET
50,      ; Retool percent penalty for production change
2,       ; Retool strictness (0 = Always Free, 1 = Free in Category, 2 = Free if Project, 3 = Never Free)
10,      ; Retool exemption (first X minerals not affected by penalty)
10,      ; Minimum # of turns between councils
5,       ; Minerals for harvesting forest
8,       ; Territory: max distance from base
30,      ; Turns to corner Global Energy Market
Native2, ; Technology to improve fungus squares
Native3, ; Technology to ease fungus movement
Native2, ; Technology to build roads in fungus
Disable, ; Technology to allow 2 special abilities for a unit
GrwFocs, ; Technology to allow 3 nutrients in a square
IndFocs, ; Technology to allow 3 minerals in a square
ResFocs, ; Technology to allow 3 energy in a square
Disable, ; Technology to allow orbital insertion w/o Space Elevator
IndFocs, ; Technology for +1 mining platform bonus
WltGoal, ; Technology for economic victory
1,       ; If non-zero, probe teams can steal technologies
0,       ; If non-zero, humans can always contact each other in net games
0,       ; If non-zero, humans can always contact each other in hotseat/email games
75,      ; Maximum % damage inflicted by arty versus units in base/bunker
100,     ; Maximum % damage inflicted by arty versus units in open
100,     ; Maximum % damage inflicted by arty versus units at sea
1, 1     ; Numerator/Denominator for frequency of global warming (1,2 would be "half" normal warming).
1        ; Normal starting year
500      ; Normal ending year for lowest 3 difficulty levels
400      ; Normal ending year for highest 3 difficulty levels
1        ; If non-zero, obliterating a base counts as an atrocity
10       ; Size of base for subspace generator
6        ; Number of subspace generators neededComments

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• Artillery damage gone up thanks to Impaler's suggestion. I had already allowed them to deal increased maximum damage, so why not buff them from the get go
• Tech rate a bit slower as my tech tree is considerably smaller
• Mine nerf removed for AI purposes
• Hab Dome requirement gone down as otherwise it rarely gets used due to facility and terraforming changes
• Psionic combat consistant
• Uphill/downhill seemed like an interesting idea
• Mobile unit bonuses and nerfs removed, also infantry vs. base removed, as units are predesigned in my mod so these weren't necessary to keep balance going
• No penalty after airdrop as there's no orbital insertions anyway and the airdrop unit only has an attack of 6
• Air units have been reworked as all-terrain ground units in my mod. Every unit has SAM so the penalties have been removed.
• Non-combat penalty tweaked slightly to help colony pods and workers out a little
• Economic victory countdown increased as there's less fast attack options in LE
• My game starts from Turn 1 rather than thousands of years into the future

TERRAFORMING IMPROVEMENTS

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Farm,             None,    Kelp Farm,        None,     4,  Cultivate $STR0, f, F
Soil Enricher,    Disable, Soil Enricher,    Disable,  8,  Construct $STR0, f, F
Mine,             None,    Mining Platform,  IndFocs,  8,  Construct $STR0, M, M
Settlement,       None,    Settlement,       Disable,  4,  Construct $STR0, S, S
Forest,           None,    ...,              Disable,  4,  Plant $STR0,     F, Shift+F
Road,             None,    Road,             Disable,  1,  Build $STR0,     R, R
Mag Tube,         Disable, Mag Tube,         Disable,  3,  Build $STR0,     R, R
Bunker,           AppWar,  Bunker,           Disable,  5,  Construct $STR0, K, K
Airbase,          Disable, Airbase,          Disable,  10, Construct $STR0, ., .
Outpost,          Tactics, Lighthouse,       Naga2,    4,  Construct $STR0, O, O
Vines,            None,    Sea Vines,        None,     6,  Remove $STR0,    F, F
Vines,            Native3, Sea Vines,        Native3,  4,  Plant $STR0,     F, Ctrl+F
Condenser,        Disable, Condenser,        Disable,  12, Construct $STR0, N, N
Echelon Mirror,   Disable, Echelon Mirror,   Disable,  12, Construct $STR0, E, Shift+E
Thermal Borehole, Disable, Thermal Borehole, Disable,  24, Construct $STR0, B, Shift+B
Aquifer,          Disable, Aquifer,          Disable,  18, Drill to $STR0,  Q, Q
Raise Land,       None,    Raise Sea Floor,  None,     12, Terraform UP,    ], ]]
Lower Land,       None,    Lower Sea Floor,  None,     12, Terraform DOWN,  [, [[
Level Terrain,    None,    Level Terrain,    Disable,  4,  Terraform LEVEL, _, _
Obelisk,          Disable, Obelisk,          Disable,  8,  Place OBELISK,   ?, ?, (this is here for map editor)
Comments

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• No Tidal Harness. In LE, sea cities are high food, high production, low trade, rather than SMAC's high nutrient, low production, high energy. Pirates get a bit desperate for tech until they get Trade Focus.
• No magtubes. I always thought they were too much, so this places more importance on airports, transports and fast attack units.
• I decided to go with a sea sensor, calling it a Lighthouse. Might have a better name for it eventually, and yes, graphically it is a challenge as the same graphic has to be used both at land and at sea. I'm thinking something on stilts.
• I made it a little quicker to plant vines. Factions who exploit vines might as well have it a little easier for their trouble.
• No advanced terraforming. This changes the game from being maximum exploitation and more about adapting to the land and making sea there's enough sea cities for production.

RESOURCE INFORMATION

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Ocean Square,     1, 0, 0, 0,
Base Square,      2, 1, 0, 0,
Bonus Square,     2, 2, 2, 0, * Mineral +1 if mine present
Forest Square,    1, 2, 1, 0,
Town Centre,      0, 3, 1, 0,
Improved Land,    1, *, *, 0, "*" columns are ignored entirely
Improved Sea,     2, 1, 3, 0, * Mineral +1 with Advanced Ecological Engineering
Obelisk,          2, 2, 2, 0,
Borehole Square,  0, 6, 6, 0,Comments

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• The first thing I must point out is that the technology that allows naval workers also increases Mining Platform production by 1, so Mining Platforms provide +2 to naval squares.
• Cities no longer produce 1 trade naturally. This is an attempt to weaken ICS.
• Town Centres (recycling tanks) no longer provide any food (also ICS weakening attempt) and instead giving an important early boost to production.
• Vines, through the technology tree, will provide 1,1,1 (ignoring any faction powers). In the water, this is the best way to get trade.

TECHNOLOGY TREE - also note http://kilkakon.com/kocb/techtree.gif

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Human Flexibility,          Human1,  0, 2, 2, 0, IntrSpc, Tactics, 000000000
Charmander Courage,         Char1,   1, 2, 0, 0, IntrSpc, Tactics, 000000000
Way of the Rose,            Dark1,   1, 0, 3, 0, IntrSpc, Tactics, 000000000
The Squirtle Cause,         Sqrt1,   0, 0, 0, 2, IntrSpc, EcoEng2, 000000000
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Combined Arms,              Human2,  1, 2, 2, 1, Human1,  AppWar,  000000000
Charmander Tactics,         Char2,   2, 3, 1, 1, Char1,   AppWar,  000000000
Dark Rose Rituals,          Dark2,   2, 1, 3, 1, Dark1,   AppWar,  000000000
Squirtle Warrior Code,      Sqrt2,   1, 1, 1, 4, Sqrt1,   AppWar,  000000000
Naval Warfare,              Naga2,   3, 0, 0, 1, ArtWar,  Mercs,   000000000
Mechanised Warfare,         Human3,  1, 3, 3, 1, Human2,  ArtWar,  000000000
Charmander Acrobatics,      Char3,   2, 4, 1, 2, Char2,   ArtWar,  000000000
Demonic Rose Incantations,  Dark3,   3, 1, 4, 1, Dark2,   ArtWar,  000000000
Path of Squirtle Mastery,   Sqrt3,   1, 1, 1, 5, Sqrt2,   ArtWar,  000000000
Mercenaries,                Mercs,   3, 2, 0, 1, AppWar,  EcoEng2, 000000000
Social Initiatives,         Init,    1, 1, 1, 2, Social,  None,    000000000
Industrial Focus,           IndFocs, 2, 0, 3, 0, Init,    None,    010000000
Growth Focus,               GrwFocs, 0, 0, 2, 3, Init,    None,    100000000
Trade Focus,                ResFocs, 0, 3, 2, 0, Init,    None,    001000000
Religious Expression,       Relg,    3, 4, 3, 3, None,    None,    000000000
Theory of Evolution,        AthRelg, 1, 3, 3, 1, Disable, Disable, 000000000
Christianity,               ChrRelg, 1, 3, 1, 3, Disable, Disable, 000000000
Path of Destruction,        DemRelg, 3, 1, 3, 1, Disable, Disable, 000000000
Inter-Species Society,      IntrSpc, 3, 4, 1, 2, Social,  None,    000000000
Realisation of Values,      Goal,    1, 3, 2, 1, Init,    Relg,    000000000
Absolute Power,             CtlGoal, 3, 0, 0, 0, Goal,    IndFocs, 000010000
Boundless Knowledge,        KnwGoal, 0, 3, 0, 0, Goal,    GrwFocs, 000000000
Infinite Wealth,            WltGoal, 0, 0, 3, 0, Goal,    ResFocs, 000000100
Social Constructs,          Social,  1, 1, 3, 1, None,    None,    000000000
Defence & Tactics,          Tactics, 3, 0, 0, 0, None,    None,    000000000
Combat Initiatives,         AppWar,  3, 1, 1, 2, Tactics, Init,    000000000
The Art of War,             ArtWar,  4, 2, 2, 2, AppWar,  Goal,    000000000
Ancient Knowledge,          Inca1,   0, 1, 0, 1, KnwGoal, ResFocs, 000000000
Native Cooperation,         Native1, 0, 0, 0, 3, IntrSpc, None,    000000000
Native Empathy,             Native2, 1, 1, 1, 4, Native1, EcoEng2, 000000000
Native Knowledge,           Native3, 2, 2, 2, 5, Native2, ArtWar,  000000000
Rapid Transit,              Transit, 2, 0, 3, 1, EcoEng2, Goal,    000000000
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Naval Exploration,          EcoEng2, 1, 0, 2, 2, Tactics, None,    000000000
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Secrets of Purpose,         Create,  2, 4, 2, 2, Goal,    IntrSpc, 000000001
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Future Technology,          TranT,   0, 1, 0, 0, Create,  KnwGoal, 000000000Comments

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• Well this is a different game, so an entirely new technology tree.
• I've recently reworked this to try and remove some of the dud technologies that went nowhere (e.g. the three religion techs have all been pooled back into religious expression).
• Note no free map reveal.
• Each faction starts with either Human1, Char1, Dark1, Sqrt1 or both Native1 and Inca1.

UNITS

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Colony Pod,             Infantry, Colony Pod,   Naked,      8, 4, 0, None,    -1, 00000000000000000010000000010
Workers,                Infantry, Workers,      Naked,      9, 3, 0, None,    -1, 00000000000000000010000000010
Boy Scout,              Infantry, Melee,        Naked,      3, 1, 0, Human1,  -1, 00000000000000100000000100010
Transport,              Foil,     Transport,    Naked,      7, 3, 8, EcoEng2, -1, 00000000000000000000000000010
Work Boat,              Foil,     Workers,      Naked,      9, 3, 0, EcoEng2, -1, 00000000000000000000000000010
Charmander,             Infantry, Rifle,        Naked,      3, 2, 0, Char1,    0, 00000000000000100000000100010
Spy,                    Gravship, Probe Team,   Naked,      11,3, 0, Mercs,    2, 00000100000010000010000101010
Artefact,               Speeder,  Artefact,     Naked,      12,10,0, Disable, -1, 00000100000000000000000000010
Carnivine,              Infantry, Psi,          Psi,        1, 4, 0, Native1,  3, 00000000000000000000000100010
Floating Vine Mass,     Foil,     Psi,          Psi,        7, 5, 4, Native2, -1, 00000000000000000000000100010
Doom Butterflies,       Gravship, Psi,          Psi,        4, 7, 0, Native3, -1, 00001000000000000010000100010
Charmander Explorer,    Infantry, Melee,        Naked,      3, 3, 0, Disable,  0, 00000000001000100110000100010
Random Chopper,         Copter,   Rifle,        Naked,      4, 6, 0, Disable, -1, 00000000000000000000000100010
Light Transport,        Foil,     Transport,    Naked,      7, 2, 4, Disable, -1, 00000100000000000000000100010
Floating Vine Mass,     Foil,     Psi,          Psi,        7, 5, 4, Disable, -1, 00000000000000000000000100010
Carnivine,              Infantry, Psi,          Psi,        1, 4, 0, Disable,  3, 00000000000000000000000100010
Weeping Idol,           Infantry, Melee,        Ancient,    3, 2, 0, Inca1,    4, 00000000000000000000000100010
Dark Rose,              Speeder,  Gatling,      Standard,   1, 8, 0, Dark2,    6, 00000000001000000100000100010
Rose of Destruction,    Speeder,  Thorns,       Standard,   1, 13,0, Dark3,    6, 00000000001000000100000100010
Vine Forest,            Infantry, Psi,          Psi,        2, 5, 0, Disable,  1, 00000000000000000000000000010
Supply Crawler,         Infantry, Supply,       Standard,   10,2, 0, Disable, -1, 00000000001000000000000000010
Sea Colony Pod,         Foil,     Colony Pod,   Naked,      8, 6, 0, EcoEng2, -1, 00000000000000000000000000010
Pirate Ship,            Foil,     Flamethrower, Naked,      6, 5, 0, Mercs,   -1, 00100000000000000000001100110
Rifleboy,               Infantry, Rifle,        Naked,      1, 3, 0, Human2,  -1, 00000000000000000010000100010
Regenerating Rose,      Infantry, Melee,        Standard,   2, 2, 0, Dark1,    6, 00000000000000000100000100010
Clockwork Carrier,      Speeder,  Transport,    Standard,   2, 3, 0, Human2,  -1, 00000000000000000010000000010
Charmander Warrior,     Infantry, Flamethrower, Naked,      0, 3, 0, Char2,    0, 00000000000000000000000100010
Charmander Defender,    Infantry, Melee,        Heavy,      2, 3, 0, Char2,    8, 00000000000000000001000100010
Charmander Superior,    Infantry, Somersault,   Standard,   0, 8, 0, Char3,    7, 00000000000000000010000110010
Clockwork Supertank,    Hovertank,Cannon,       Naked,      0, 9, 0, Human3,  -1, 00000000000000000000000100010
Armoured Pod,           Speeder,  Colony Pod,   Standard,   8, 6, 0, Sqrt2,   -1, 00000000001000100000000000010
Squirtle Sympathiser,   Infantry, Melee,        Naked,      3, 1, 0, Sqrt1,   -1, 00000000000000100000000100010
Squirtle,               Gravship, Rifle,        Naked,      1, 4, 0, Sqrt2,    5, 00000100000000000010000100010
Squirtle Ninja,         Gravship, Gatling,      Standard,   1, 6, 0, Sqrt3,    5, 00000100000000000010000100010
Destroyer,              Cruiser,  Gatling,      Standard,   6, 6, 0, Naga2,   -1, 00000000000000000000000100010
Ballista,               Speeder,  Gatling,      Naked,      0, 5, 0, Mercs,   -1, 00000000000001000000000100010
Gunboat,                Foil,     Rifle,        Naked,      6, 3, 0, EcoEng2, -1, 00000000000000000000000100010
Coastal,                Foil,     Melee,        Heavy,      2, 4, 0, Naga2,   -1, 00000000000000000000000100010
;                                                                                 22222222221111111111
;                                                                                 98765432109876543210987654321
Comments and details

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Weapons:

• Melee: 1.
• Rifle: 2.
• Flamethrower: 4.
• Gatling: 5.
• Somersault: 6.
• Cannon: 8.
• Thorns: 10.

Armours:

• Naked: 1.
• Standard: 2.
• Heavy: 3.
• Ancient: 4.

• Colony Pods and Workers now move 2. This is to make options other than ICS a bit more feasible. Workers are also available from turn 1.
• No more Spore Launchers! They are regular Carnivines now. Sealurks also turn into Floating Vine Masses (wrong graphic sadly but yes)
• Doom Butterflies (loscusts) lower enemy morale by 2 when they attack.
• Note the Gravship chassis moves 3. Doom Butterflies move 4 due to grav struts.
• Supply Crawlers are not normally available. There's one in the Unity wreckage, and one faction starts with two of them.
• Reverse engineering doesn't work in LE. Any units created with it will take millions of turns to complete.
• There's a ton of other things I could point out, but you probably can distill the rest from reading it. Feel free to make any comments you wish.

[Kilkakon]

BASE FACILITIES

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Capitol,                       5, 0, None,    Disable,  Order
Children's Guild,              5, 1, GrwFocs, Disable,  Growth/Order/Morale
Town Centre,                   4, 0, None,    Disable,  Bonus Resources
City Walls,                    5, 0, Tactics, Disable,  Defence +100%
Advanced City Walls,          12, 2, CtlGoal, Disable,  Defence +100%
Temple,                        4, 1, Social,  Disable,  Fewer Unhappy
Marketplace,                   8, 1, ResFocs, Disable,  Economy Bonus
Library,                       8, 1, IntrSpc, Disable,  Labs Bonus
Native Embassy,                6, 1, Goal,    Disable,  Research/Native
Gold Vault,                   10,-5, WltGoal, Disable,  Gold Bonus
Theatre,                       6, 3, IntrSpc, Disable,  Lux and Fewer Unhappy
(Paradise Garden),            12, 4, Disable, Disable,  +2 Talents
(Tree Farm),                   0, 0, Disable, Disable,  Econ/Lux/Forest
(Hybrid Forest),              24, 4, Disable, Disable,  Econ/Psych/Forest
(Fusion Lab),                 12, 3, Disable, Disable,  Econ and Labs Bonus
(Quantum Lab),                24, 4, Disable, Disable,  Econ and Labs Bonus
(Research Hospital),          12, 3, Disable, Disable,  Labs and Lux Bonus
(Nanohospital),               24, 4, Disable, Disable,  Labs and Lux Bonus
(Robotic Assembly Plant),     20, 4, Disable, Disable,  Production Bonus
(Nanoreplicator),             32, 6, Disable, Disable,  Production Bonus
(Quantum Converter),          20, 5, Disable, Disable,  Production Bonus
Factory,                      10, 2, IndFocs, Disable,  Production; More Unhappy
Punishment Sphere,             5, 0, CtlGoal, Disable,  No Unhappy/-50% Tech
Water Supply,                  8, 2, Transit, Disable,  Increase Population Limit
Sewer System,                 16, 4, Transit, Disable,  Increase Population Limit
Tidal Wall,                    8, 0, EcoEng2, Disable,  Submersion/Resources
(Command Centre),              4, 1, Disable, Disable,  +2 Morale:Land
(Naval Yard),                  8, 2, Disable, Disable,  +2 Morale:Sea, Sea Def +100%
(Aerospace Complex),           8, 2, Disable, Disable,  +2 Morale:Air, Air Def +100%
Barracks,                      4, 1, Tactics, Disable,  +2 Morale
Vine Preserve,                10, 2, Native3, Disable,  Ecology/Native
(Temple of Planet),           20, 3, Disable, Disable,  Ecology Bonus
Airport,                      20, 0, Transit, Disable,  Transport
Espionage Network,            14, 2, ArtWar,  Disable,  +2 Morale:Spies/Probe
Arena,                         8, 2, Native2, Disable,  Native/Police
(Harbour),                     8, 1, Disable, Disable,  Sea Food
Dry Dock,                     12, 2, Naga2,   Disable,  Sea Production
(Gold Vault),                 10,-5, Disable, Disable,  Gold Bonus
(Flechette Defense System),   12, 2, Disable, Disable,  Missile Defense
(Subspace Generator),         60, 5, Disable, Disable,  Alien Victory
(Geosynchronous Survey Pod),  16, 4, Disable, Disable,  Increase sight\sensor bonus
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(Sky Hydroponics Lab),        12, 0, Disable, Disable,  +1 Food ALL BASES
(Nessus Mining Station),      12, 0, Disable, Disable,  +1 Production ALL BASES
(Orbital Power Transmitter),  12, 0, Disable, Disable,  +1 Trade ALL BASES
(Orbital Defense Pod),        12, 0, Disable, Disable,  Missile Defense
Capitalisation,                0, 0, None,    Disable,  Production to Gold
Comments

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• No secret projects. It changes the game from being a race to get the best ones to actually going after victory from the beginning.
• A considerable number of facilities have been removed, leaving just the basic options. This continues LE's efforts to simplify things somewhat and have a more intimate, raw experience
• The Skunkworks has been turned into LE's negative maintenance structure.
• Airports and Espionage Networks are the mini-projects of LE. They are very expensive but provide some pretty handy benefits.

CITIZENS

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Adv. Entertainer, Adv. Entertainers,   Create,  Disable, 0, 3, 0, 0000000
Entertainer,      Entertainers,        None,    Create,  0, 2, 0, 0000000
Librarian,        Librarians,          Disable, Disable, 0, 0, 2, 0000000
Engineer,         Engineers,           Disable, Disable, 3, 0, 2, 0000000
Empath,           Empathi,             Disable, Disable, 2, 2, 0, 0000000
Thinker,          Thinkers,            Disable, Disable, 0, 1, 3, 0000000
Transcend,        Transcendi,          Disable, Disable, 2, 2, 4, 0000000
Unhappy Citizen,  Unhappy Citizens,
Citizen,          Citizens,
Happy Citizen,    Happy Citizens,Comments

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• Not much to say other than I took specialists out! Only entertainers and (late game) advanced entertainers remain, which means that the usual crawl, satellite and specialist strategy is no longer available (more like completely obliterated, none of it is left haha)

SOCIAL ENGINEERING - note that Effic is called Order in LE

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Initative, Religion, Values, Goal
Balance,         None,
Growth,          GrwFocs, -ECONOMY,  ++GROWTH,   -INDUSTRY
Industry,        IndFocs, -ECONOMY,  -GROWTH,    +++INDUSTRY
Trade,           ResFocs, ++ECONOMY, -GROWTH,    -INDUSTRY
Free Religion,   None,
Atheism,         Relg,    ++SUPPORT, ++POLICE,   --RESEARCH
Christianity,    Relg,    ++ORDER,   ++PLANET,   -GROWTH
Demonism,        Relg,    ---POLICE, ++GROWTH,   ++RESEARCH
Survival,        None,
Power,           CtlGoal, ++MORALE,  ++POLICE,   --PLANET
Knowledge,       KnwGoal, +ORDER,    --PROBE,    ++RESEARCH
Greed,           WltGoal, +ECONOMY,  --MORALE,   +INDUSTRY
Undefined,       None,
We Must Be Free, Create,  --ORDER,   +++SUPPORT, ++POLICE,   +PROBE
Perfect Society, Create,  --MORALE,  +GROWTH,    +PLANET,    +RESEARCH
All Must Die,    Create,  +++MORALE, ---GROWTH,  --PLANET,   +++INDUSTRYComments

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• The first note that I can make is that the first row, Initative, represents only minor changes in society that don't change the faction's identity (it's just putting ads out saying "do this more boys!". As such, they boost a specific stat and reduce two others to make up for it. They also will never cause other factions to hate you.
• Pop-booming will be hard without crippling POLICE and MORALE.

[Buster's Uncle]

Jonathon Livingston Seagull would be a fine source of profound-sounding quotes about the glory of fight.  It's also a good read. 

[Rymdolov]

the glory of fight.

Who needs Freudian slips when you can have Spartan slips?

[Rymdolov]

One day I'll play it, I promise. Which of the factions is the most atheist? 

[Buster's Uncle]

One of the bad guys, obviously.  Oblivion's Fallen looks promising...

[Kilkakon]

Oblivion is actually Demonic. Atheism is portrayed as lawful neutral, D&D alignment wise, in the game.

Probably CyndaTech--think Hive, just more industrial. They also ignore the science penalty. Most factions can go with Atheism quite easily though, only like 2 of them are obviously bent towards Christianity and 2 towards Demonism.

Incidently, the current version of the rules isn't uploaded anywhere. If you want to play it within the next, say, 3 weeks Rym, let me know and I'll PM ya a secret link.

[Kilkakon]

I've been at work trying to work out what works from Impaler's changes and what doesn't. E.g. Soil Enrichers on sea, Automated Work Boats can't figure out how to build them, ruining naval AI effectiveness. I have however, decided to allow Mining Platforms without any tech, but making them only give 1 production until Industrial Focus. Just smoothes out the early game development a bit.

I've also finished the Latios Express logo:

[Kilkakon]

Well I've been working on city graphics. I had almost made a good stage 4 for Latios Express, until PhotoImpact crashed. Major hairpull there. After being sad about it for a while I decided to change to doing Oblivion's cities, as they were never done (and how this thread started, wow!). I showed BUncle my results, and well, he was "shocked". Probably meant they were high quality. Either that or the stage 4 was a statue of Oblivion himself (seemed appropriate to his vain personality). We may never know.

I'll be finishing off the naval variant tonight. And maybe the landscape and stuff... either way Oblivion is close to 100%!

Remaining work to do:
Cities: Latios Express, Cyndatech Industries, The Betrayed
Logos: Community of Rakis, Blackband's Pirates, Vixen's Path
Recordings: Davo, Leedarus, Navius, Rakash, Darrus, Karthinia
Leaders: Blackband's Pirates, maybe Victoria, maybe Saig, maybe Darrus

[Kilkakon]

Thought I'd post some updates.

Respectively:
New Jack portait
New Fallen city
New Adventurer city
New Assassin city (well new size 1 and water cities to be precise, and better wall placement)

Lonely thread is lonely...

[Buster's Uncle]

Lonely thread is lonely...

Then bump it, man.  Your work is great; don't be such a martyr.

[Green1]

Maybe it should get sticky.

[Kilkakon]

I did bump it, with pics too, haha. I'll update the main download once I get it working with the new patch, as I feel in a release mood today.

For the fun of it I played a little bit last night, as Pirates (due to them having the new leader). The new guy works very well. Need to think of some logos... though Cyndatech look like the next city I'll do (I'm working from the top of my faction directory to the bottom).

I must admit I would be very excited if the modding boys can get any extra unit slots.