by bruce » Sun Mar 30, 2003 2:28 pm
OK, so I've been playing Galactic Civilizations.
I've been having a lot of fun going for cultural victories.
One of the ways you do this is to build starbases near other planets, and then load them up with cultural modules, like "Party Palace" and "Galactic Waterpark." If you have a lot of cultural influence near someone else's planet, that planet is likely to defect to your civilization.
My starbases have these things. So you can figure they're full of drunken Space Fratboys swilling beer and doing bellyflops, and acting as startlingly effective cultural ambassadors.
But then, you can also add Terror Star Technology to your starbases. This lets you a) move your starbases very slowly around the galaxy, and b) blow up star systems' suns.
So I gave some of my starbases these.
Now I want you to imagine the scene. You're a nice, timid little member of the Yor Collective, a race of spacefaring living robots who want to exterminate all organic life. And suddenly this....thing pulls into orbit overhead. You head up there, and there's Biff. He hands you a brewski and a reefer, and the two of you start flailing down the waterslides. Then you go to Hooter's. And he says something like, "Hey, dude! Check out the gazongas on that chick! Hey! You want another beer? Here ya go! I got something cool to show you! You see those guys in that room in there? They're at the control panel for this thing that, can, like, <i>blow out your sun like a match</i>! Rock on, dude!"
Bruce
OK, so I've been playing Galactic Civilizations.
I've been having a lot of fun going for cultural victories.
One of the ways you do this is to build starbases near other planets, and then load them up with cultural modules, like "Party Palace" and "Galactic Waterpark." If you have a lot of cultural influence near someone else's planet, that planet is likely to defect to your civilization.
My starbases have these things. So you can figure they're full of drunken Space Fratboys swilling beer and doing bellyflops, and acting as startlingly effective cultural ambassadors.
But then, you can also add Terror Star Technology to your starbases. This lets you a) move your starbases very slowly around the galaxy, and b) blow up star systems' suns.
So I gave some of my starbases these.
Now I want you to imagine the scene. You're a nice, timid little member of the Yor Collective, a race of spacefaring living robots who want to exterminate all organic life. And suddenly this....thing pulls into orbit overhead. You head up there, and there's Biff. He hands you a brewski and a reefer, and the two of you start flailing down the waterslides. Then you go to Hooter's. And he says something like, "Hey, dude! Check out the gazongas on that chick! Hey! You want another beer? Here ya go! I got something cool to show you! You see those guys in that room in there? They're at the control panel for this thing that, can, like, <i>blow out your sun like a match</i>! Rock on, dude!"
Bruce