[Openme-developers] Race abilities with values and more stuff

[Michael v. D. <mi...@ci...>]

Paragon

The Paragons used to be a fairly normal race in the global scheme of
things. Their culture and technology were all standard up until a few
dozen years ago when a huge change in racial mentality occurred 

During the global communication era the entire population became caught
up in a race for the latest technological oddities. This resulted in a
mad drive to fulfill the demand of the population which flooded the
market with all sorts of unique tech.

Even their first steps into space and subsequent trading were only a
side effect from their search for new resources to produce the next
generation of gimmicks.

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Having evolved from a pirate like society the Paragon have a rather
unusual view of both life and goods. While not as ruthless as the old
civilization they nonetheless believe that what they can see, they can
take. At first glance a typical Paragon comes across as very friendly
with the best of intentions. However it is best never to turn your back
on them for they are not as friendly as they appear. 

Thanks to their way of life the Paragon have mastered the art of lies
and illusions in order to lull anyone they encounter into a false sense
of security. Once they see an opportunity though they won't hesitate to
relieve you of your money, goods and ship.

On the other hand some Paragon have schemed for years and made
themselves very popular across the galaxy without ever committing an act
of evil .  but that just means they are going after very big prizes 

Mawlor

The Mawlor as a race has always been very aggressive and warlike
throughout history which has been rather big problem the last few
decades.

With their weapons becoming bigger and better their population began to
decrease at an alarming rate. In order to cut down on their losses some
Mawlor generals began probing the idea of using robotic warriors. Even
in the early stages of development this plan proved to be very effective
and after a few short years most of the fighting was between drones
instead of the population itself.

This freed up a large portion of Mawlors to finally begin looking
towards the stars. This eventually led to the discovery of the other
races where the Mawlor soon found a new outlet for their warrior
instincts.

KEA

Despite what people may think the KEA do not focus on trade because of
some desire to buy out the universe. They simply have to buy more
resources because their factories are incredibly inefficient.

To even produce the most basic commodities they need vast amounts of
resources due to underdeveloped industry and a horrible bureaucratic
system of management. So they were one of the first to enter space in
search of more goods because their home world no longer had any.

This has forced the KEA to become expert barterers that are valued, and
needed, by other races throughout the galaxy.
 
 
Xollian

The Xollians today are a far cry from their earlier civilization.
Several hundred years ago their planet was polluted beyond it's
capability to support normal life. This had such a disastrous effect on
the Xollian population that each next generation was born mutated.

The parts of the population that weren't yet afflicted began casting out
the mutated people to desolate regions of their planet and were not
allowed back into the normal cities. This resulted in violent hate from
the mutated ones and soon they started researching ways to move about
the "clean" Xollians unnoticed.

After a few decades where the normal Xollians kept decreasing and the
mutated gained numbers they finally perfected the first cloaking
devices. Armed with these devices and a xenophobic hate they quickly
killed off the rest of the old generations.

And now they have been let lose on the galaxy .

Zyck'lirg

The Zyck'lirg are a class 4 insectoid race with a high degree of
intelligence and strong aggressive natural instincts. They are governed
by a single Hive Queen through a telepathic link but there is a slight
problem with that. Their Hive Queen is psychologically unstable.

Whether this is due to genetics, technology or any other force we cannot
say but the result of this is that the entire Zyck'lirg race is
unpredictable. Over the course of many years this has resulted in a
certain degree of individuality of the worker class, the gathering class
and the warrior class.

Zycklirg are good at trading and fighting but without the normal unity
of the Hive mind they are not as efficient as you'd expect. This is
compensated by their large numbers and low labor costs.

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The Zyck'lirg are angry, there's no doubt about that.
Why ?
Someone has stolen their Alpha Queen.

While the next generation of princes has taken swift and decisive
actions to find the persons who abducted her, the search has yet to
produce any result.

In a rare act among insectiod species the worker class and the warrior
class are now coordinating their efforts to begin a massive sweep in
search for their beloved Queen by rapid expansion of their fleet and
resource gathering abilities

Even though this race has never posed any major threat to the security
of the galaxy their sheer numbers and efficient way of working will
surely overwhelm anyone who harbors the thieves


 
The race abilities setup version 2

Goals :

Promote teamwork
Force players to choose a style
Create diversity
Balancing tool for ship list

Possible coded modifiers :

Research
Production
Building
Personal race relations
Global race relations
Racial kill
Local tax
Maximum Alignment
Xp loss upon death

*All subdivided into positive and negative

Possible non-coded modifiers :

Starting Alignment
Robbery
Alignment gain
Xp gain upon kill
Drone/mine cost

*All subdivided into positive and negative

*In all that's 28 possible modifiers without counting values

Default assignments per race :1 permanent positive bonus (PB)
					1 permanent negative bonus (PN)
					1 positive bonus that promotes
teamwork (PT)
					1 negative bonus that promotes
teamwork (NT)
					1 starting modifier (SM)

Perceived race segregation :

Zyck'lirg - A bug race that has so much population that building is fast
and xp means very little. Their ships are meant for traveling long
distances and they range from medium sized traders to large warship.
Since most of their ships are biologic they do not show up on any long
range scanners.

Xollian - Evil Hunters that have trouble getting along with other races
in various ways. Their main power is the cloaking technology and their
efficient weapons factories. 

KEA - Major traders that are friendly with everyone but have trouble
producing due to inefficiency. They are liked by all other races for
their trading abilities and can continue trading even all the races are
at war with each other

Paragon - A tech loving race. They are masters of deception even going
as far as masking their own ships. Due to their love for technology they
keep large supplies of  power ready so they can install the latest
devices.

Mawlor - Born warriors that are good at fighting but don't like to lose
and consider building  beneath them. They dislike sharing any of the
glory of combat with others of their species so they rely on a few per
ship compensated by immense amounts of robotic drones
 
Now to assign abilities to each race without values

Zyck'lirg :	PB) X% less xp loss upon death
		PP) X% less xp gain upon kill
		PT) X% less cost to build
		NT) X% more cost to research
		SM) -X alignment

Xollian :	PB)	X% more alignment gained upon evil kill
		PN) Maximum Alignment < 500 
		PT) X% less cost to produce weapons
		NT) X% more cost to research
		SM) -X global race relations

KEA :		PB) Unaffected by negative global race relations
		PN) X% less money from racial kill
		PT) X% less cost to purchase drones/mines
		NT) X% more cost to produce weapons
		SM) +X alignment

Paragon :	PB) X% less alignment gained upon evil kill
		PN) Maximum Alignment > 500
		PT) X% less research cost
		NT) X% more cost to purchase drones/mines
		SM) +X personal race relations with all races

Mawlor :	PB) X% more xp gain upon kill
		PN) X% more xp loss upon death
		PT) X% less cost to produce weapons
		NT) X% more cost to build
		SM) -X personal race relations

And finally to assign some values based  purely on impressions since
there's no formula for this yet.

Zyck'lirg :	PB) 3% less xp loss upon death
		PP) 2% less xp gain upon kill
		PT) 9% less cost to build
		NT) 12% more cost to research
		SM) -50 alignment

Xollian :	PB) 20% more alignment gained upon evil kill
		PN) Maximum Alignment is 450 
		PT) 14% less cost to produce weapons
		NT) 9% more cost to research
		SM) -X global race relations

KEA :		PB) Unaffected by negative global race relations
		PN) 5% less money from racial kill
		PT) 10% less cost to purchase drones/mines
		NT) 13% more cost to produce weapons
		SM) +50 alignment

 
Paragon :	PB) 15% less alignment gained upon evil kill
		PN) Maximum Alignment > 550
		PT) 16% less research cost
		NT) 7% more cost to purchase drones/mines
		SM) +100 personal race relations with all races

Mawlor :	PB) 3% more xp gain upon kill
		PN) 2% more xp loss upon death
		PT) 8% less cost to produce weapons
		NT) 6% more cost to build
		SM) -50 personal race relations


Now while some argue that this will affect the ship balance I fail to
see how. Except for the permanent racial traits the rest is all focused
on other aspects of the game. The only exception is the purchasing of
drones so I gave that to those races that don't really need them to
encourage planning and teamwork. The permanent changes are balanced in
each race and even have a counterpart in another race save KEA so they
only help to accentuate playing style and confirm the race descriptions
(my race descriptions).

As for the some the values . they're open for change based on in game
feedback. I made most of them based on how much you use each in the game
itself over a long period of time.

Ok that's it for today, you have 12 hours to come up with comments