[QUOTE=wizard`;34611533]I think the game will play unneccisarily slowly if you force every player to not only settle his own planets continents. You might spend 15 turns taking your own planet which might take between 15 and 30 days and then still be 25000+ lightyears from the nearest person, which is simply too far for a race of beings who have just entered the space age.
[img_thumb]http://filesmelt.com/dl/gal_1.png[/img_thumb]
I'm also going to join.[/QUOTE]
Except you start with your homeworld 100% colonised unless you work out a deal with another player where you share a planet from the start.
You'd only have to work at colonising newly discovered planets which only makes perfect sense.
There's no reason you can't colonise planets AND expand in space. Armadas and Armies are different units.
I'm going to join this, I just need to set up first.
And with that, the Imperial Veran Empire has begun.
Some information for you chaps.
Verans are a race of bipedal humanoids averaging at two and a half to three metres tall with binary respiratory and cardiovascular systems. They have rough, thick skin ranging in colours from blue-grey to pitch black with bright orange veins showing under some parts of the skin. Their faces are teardrop shaped with angular and very pointy chins that extend down into their necks. Unlike the rest of their bodies, the skin on their face is very smooth and somewhat shiny, with a hard ridge down the middle from the forehead to where the mouth would be, and three sets of eyes on either side.
They look very similar to [url=http://th01.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2011/118/6/7/techno_demon_by_oleg_dmw-d3f3n93.png]This[/url] minus the wings and glowy arms/midsection.
Verans worship the Dark Goddess Inara, the personification of all the decay, death, and destruction in the universe from black holes to genocide to volcanoes to a simple murder. They believe that with devout worship (and a firm hand in society) they can avert most crises.
They are not outward with their religion. If you don't worship, that's fine. They don't care. However if you plan to live permanently on any Veran settlement worship is mandatory. Their religion is non-restrictive aside from base morals such as no murder, rape, etc. There is no such thing as repression of sexuality or science. Science flourishes under this religion, and all sexualities are seen as equal (Largely due to the fact that Verans are all laboratory grown instead of raised by families. No worries though, they're not clones! Still takes the chromosomes of two parents to make a child).
Their homeworld is Solusta Hazus. Solusta Hazus, meaning "Dying Home" in the language of the planet, is a terran planet roughly one and a half times the size of Earth. It is arid and dry over 80% of the planet's landmass with seas covering only roughly 40% of the planet. The other 20% of the planet's landmass are the last lush forests and grasslands of the world, located at the North and South poles. It has never snowed on Solusta Hazus and rainfall outside of the poles is estimated at less than a millimetre per year. Many large landlocked salt lakes exist in the lower regions of the planet due to the receding seas. Tall, proud mountain ranges run along the planet's arid regions, extending hundreds if not thousands of miles before receding. The tallest mountain, Ovorus Khailor, named after the first person to scale it, stands at just over 10,200 metres.
Originally a 'garden world' with two moons keeping it in perfect balance, it became an arid wasteland when a comet collided with the larger of the two moons, breaking it into three large pieces, knocking the planet off balance and destroying most of the ecosystem. Some time after the cataclysmic event, the three pieces and the smaller moon managed to stabilize the planet again on a 0 degree vertical axis. The Verans adapted quickly to this change, moving most of their settlements underground or to the poles. After having spent several generations trying to fix the problem, and having found that it is impossible, the population voted to give up and strip the planet of its' resources before starting a mass exodus to a new colony.
Mary Sue.
Sounds like if someone were to meet that race they would say "Well are you scientific? No? Dirty primitive fools" from their high thrones in their fancy garden full of rainbows and exotic flowers
Oh yea? well, I look like this:
[t]http://th00.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2011/032/4/8/great_race_of_yith_by_juanico_el_muertes-d38jxs9.jpg[/t]
...
Hm.
I fail to see how you think they're arrogant. They're quite nice really.
And Sobotnik how the hell are they mary sues?
[editline]8th February 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE='[Seed Eater];34614244']Oh yea? well, I look like this:
[t]http://th00.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2011/032/4/8/great_race_of_yith_by_juanico_el_muertes-d38jxs9.jpg[/t]
...
Hm.[/QUOTE]
D:
[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;34613913]Huge post of informations and stuffs[/QUOTE]
[U][B][I]In the interest of full disclosure, here you go![/I][/B][/U]
[B]Civilization Name:[/B] Vandura (IE - The people of Vandura, or the Vanduran people).
[B]Civilization make up:[/B] Several types of sentient beings have learned to live in peace on the Vanduran home planet of Tambor and habitable moon of Kyrr.
The original inhabitants of Tambor are the Hygarth.
[img_thumb]http://filesmelt.com/dl/hygarth.png[/img_thumb]
The Hygarth are a highly intelligent race but are very weak physically. They stand to be 5 feet 6 inches tall on average and weigh an average of 55kg. They have highly attuned senses that developed as a result of their physical defects through evolution and to this day their reflexes border with pre-cognition. They Hygarth are relatively few in numbers considering the size of the planet they inhabit (2.2 times the size of Earth), there are only 19.8 million Hygarth across the entire planet. During their equivalent age of discovery they learned of the existence of civilisation on the orbiting moon of Kyrr, at this point the sole goal of the Hygarth was to establish contact with the inhabitants, to do this the Hygarth build highly advanced robots to do the general day of life work that was needed to survive, this allowed the Hygarth to dedicate their entire collective intelligence toward making contact with their neighbours.
These robots are known as CK88 class units and number at 105.3 million. The CK88 class robot is a complete artificial intelligence and are not programmed for specific work and can be simply told to do something and they will do it. The CK88 are a non-aggressive robot and share their creators passion for peace and discovery as a by-product of their inventors. They stand at 6 feet 2.2 inches and tower over their creators. A standard CK88 class robot will weigh 87.4kg. Despite their standing and purpose in society the Hygarth have always treated CK88 robots will uttermost respect and would even consider the CK88 robots to be like sons.
[img_thumb]http://filesmelt.com/dl/ck88.png[/img_thumb]
The final race of sentient life that make up the Vanduran people are the Rhauks. (They are the original inhabitants of the moon, Kyrr).
[img_thumb]http://filesmelt.com/dl/Rhauk.png[/img_thumb]
These beings are brutal by nature but are completely loyal. Their loyalty has developed over thousands of years of society being run by the most powerful of them, this created a cult of respect for that person and this generates intense loyalty. The Rhauks are 7 feet 1 inch tall and weight on average 112kg. The Rhauks are very physical and outstanding fighters however they lack the incredible levels of intelligence possessed by the Hygarth. As a result it was the Hygarth that first met the Rhauks and after several decades of development a Hygarth solar-shuttle landed on the surface of Kyrr. From that day onward the Rhauks and Hygarth have considered each other brothers and the planet of Tambor and the Moon of Kyrr have highly mixed society's. At this moment the planet of Tambor is inhabited by 26.4 million Hygarth, 41.7 million Rhauks and 167.7 million CK88 class robots. Also at this moment the moon of Kyrr is inhabited by 6.6 million Hygarth, 81.5 million Rhauks and 53.2 million CK88 class robots.
[B]Civilization belifes: [/B] The Vanduran people do not hold any religious beleifs. They simply care about discovery. They care for peace but by no means are pacifists, if something gets in their way or threatens the Vanduran people they will fight to stop it. The people of Vandura operate under a democratic system of elected officials. Those officials would then select someone as their leader who would make executive decisions for Vandura.
[B]Color:[/B] #2266ff
[B]My flag:[/B]
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/vandura_flag.png[/img]
[B]A render of Tambor and Kyrr (Image_Thumb):[/B]
[img_thumb]http://filesmelt.com/dl/vandura.png[/img_thumb]
[B]And where I'm going to be![/B]
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/gal_2.png[/img]
The Great Race of Yith, or Yithians, are 15-foot-tall conical highly intelligent creatures. In the past, they collectively replaced their consciousness with that of their current host. A single Yith's body can live for thousands of years, but their consciousness can live eternally as long as there is a body to host it. It is prophesied that in the future, the Great Race will again unlock their ability to move their consciousness freely again, in order to avoid a certain doom their ancestors had foreseen.
The Great Race lives on the planet Yith (surprise), which is Earth-like and strewn about with grey vegetation. The Great Race are very scientific-minded, and have developed their art and scientific understanding greatly. Their society exists in several major cities on Yith, and the entire Race is contained within these few cities. The Yith are mostly peaceful, having long since abandoned the ways of war after nearly being defeated by rival races ho have came in contact with them from across the stars.
Yith government is lead by a selection of technocrats, enacting a classless benevolent fascist society. The bodies of the Great Race need little nourishment, and their society is well-developed enough that it does not require regular labor, allowing the Great Race to spend its time researching, recording, and enacting science from its enormously huge data centers. It is a common practice of the Yithians to extract the consciousness of other beings from other points in spacetime and place that consciousness for an extended stay in a Yithian body, where it will have free movement through the Great Race's cities and society, in return for recording any and all information it can in the Yithian archives and data centers. So far this extraction technology is not precise enough to "aim" it, and the consciousness transfer is only temporary.
The physiology of the Ythians themselves is rather basic- a toughened, but soft, skin covers the entire cone. Feelers at the end of a tentacle/stalk allow for the sensing of touch, smell, and sight, but not sound nor taste. A grasping claw allows for gripping or potential combat. A four "petaled" tube is used to absorb nutrients, which is rarely needed. Their internals are mostly brain, with several hearts pumping blood through the body at different speeds depending on the need. Oxygen is taken in by osmosis through the skin's outer membrane and it distributed directly to the blood.
The number of Yithians is under 30,000.
I'm going to join torormow, forgot to write my thing up.
I'm going to be the combine. muhahahahaha
[QUOTE='[Seed Eater];34615368']The Great Race of Yith, or Yithians, are 15-foot-tall conical highly intelligent creatures. In the past, they collectively replaced their consciousness with that of their current host. A single Yith's body can live for thousands of years, but their consciousness can live eternally as long as there is a body to host it. It is prophesied that in the future, the Great Race will again unlock their ability to move their consciousness freely again, in order to avoid a certain doom their ancestors had foreseen.
The Great Race lives on the planet Yith (surprise), which is Earth-like and strewn about with grey vegetation. The Great Race are very scientific-minded, and have developed their art and scientific understanding greatly. Their society exists in several major cities on Yith, and the entire Race is contained within these few cities. The Yith are mostly peaceful, having long since abandoned the ways of war after nearly being defeated by rival races ho have came in contact with them from across the stars.
Yith government is lead by a selection of technocrats, enacting a classless benevolent fascist society. The bodies of the Great Race need little nourishment, and their society is well-developed enough that it does not require regular labor, allowing the Great Race to spend its time researching, recording, and enacting science from its enormously huge data centers. It is a common practice of the Yithians to extract the consciousness of other beings from other points in spacetime and place that consciousness for an extended stay in a Yithian body, where it will have free movement through the Great Race's cities and society, in return for recording any and all information it can in the Yithian archives and data centers. So far this extraction technology is not precise enough to "aim" it, and the consciousness transfer is only temporary.
The physiology of the Ythians themselves is rather basic- a toughened, but soft, skin covers the entire cone. Feelers at the end of a tentacle/stalk allow for the sensing of touch, smell, and sight, but not sound nor taste. A grasping claw allows for gripping or potential combat. A four "petaled" tube is used to absorb nutrients, which is rarely needed. Their internals are mostly brain, with several hearts pumping blood through the body at different speeds depending on the need. Oxygen is taken in by osmosis through the skin's outer membrane and it distributed directly to the blood.
The number of Yithians is under 30,000.[/QUOTE]
sounds good and all but the same goes for Ven Kaeo, I just don't understand why you have like 15 foot tall races, its just an inconvenience when your building ships with 4m tall corridors :/
cant wait for this to start
[QUOTE=Intoxicated Spy;34615411]I'm going to join torormow, forgot to write my thing up.
I'm going to be the combine. muhahahahaha[/QUOTE]No you should be the Imperium of Man
Purge the galaxy of heretics and alien scum!
Someone already created the Combine, sorry Spy D: I wouldn't normally let someone base a race diretly off the Combine, But I'm gunna let it slide and see where it goes.
No one has made a human-ish race yet. If your interested, Spy?
[QUOTE=wizard`;34615456]sounds good and all but the same goes for Ven Kaeo, I just don't understand why you have like 15 foot tall races, its just an inconvenience when your building ships with 4m tall corridors :/
cant wait for this to start[/QUOTE]
What about Ven Kaeo?
2.5 to 3 metres is hardly an inconvenience. It's not like we're 15 feet tall.
Grox empire will kill you all.
[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;34618079]What about Ven Kaeo?
2.5 to 3 metres is hardly an inconvenience. It's not like we're 15 feet tall.[/QUOTE]
That's why grox people are small.
[QUOTE=overpain;34618113]Grox empire will kill you all.
That's why grox people are small.[/QUOTE]
The way you described the Grox, I depict them as the Helghast from Killzone, but like 4x the fascist dictatorships
[QUOTE=VOSK;34618143]The way you described the Grox, I depict them as the Helghast from Killzone, but like 4x the fascist dictatorships[/QUOTE]
I was meant to be like these little fuckers:
[img]http://images.wikia.com/spore/pt/images/a/a8/Os_Grox.png[/img]
But that's even better idea.
Oh lord the Grox.
Everyone hit the deck!
Okay. So do you guys want me to make this game like REALLY in-depth like Empires and Revolutions, or keep it more simple like Van Keao's game?
Rate Box for In-Depth
Rate Late for Simple
[editline]9th February 2012[/editline]
I'm starting to write summaries for your civilizations. I will message you the completed summary once I finish and you can tell me any adjustments you want made.
Kami, artistic is not an applicable rating.
I don't want it dreadfully in depth but I want it a little more in depth than mine. Mostly maps. I would like a map linked for each nation that shows their homeworld and is used only if their homeworld is invaded.
I would also like to a list of (linked) maps under the summary for each civilization that shows their colonies and how colonised it is.
Something like this.
Civilization X
Usual deatails shit
Colonies:
[url=http://www.clker.com/cliparts/b/c/5/e/1195421696248988212molumen_world_map.svg.hi.png]Colony 1[/url]
Except the maps would be larger and I'd be making them for VOSK.
I feel like we would only have maps of home planets. Not every planet a civilization controls. It makes it so it's not overly complicated.
Wouldn't be that complicated. Just a map. I'd be doing the updates on them so I wouldn't mind it. It also gives the player an incentive to expand their empire. Each planet makes an armada per turn. But the more planets/colonies you have the more armadas you can make per turn. Not only that but more colonies means more incoming resources and more possible orbital shipyards for [b]MEGA SHIPS[/b]
Death Stars 'errrwhere
Vosk when will you start the game?
It's in the OP...
[QUOTE=kamikaze470;34615485]No you should be the Imperium of Man
Purge the galaxy of heretics and alien scum![/QUOTE]
So combine is taken, SO I WILL TAKE THIS!
DEATH TO HERETICS!
[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;34621392]Kami, artistic is not an applicable rating.
I don't want it dreadfully in depth but I want it a little more in depth than mine. Mostly maps. I would like a map linked for each nation that shows their homeworld and is used only if their homeworld is invaded.
I would also like to a list of (linked) maps under the summary for each civilization that shows their colonies and how colonised it is.
Something like this.
Civilization X
Usual deatails shit
Colonies:
[URL="http://www.clker.com/cliparts/b/c/5/e/1195421696248988212molumen_world_map.svg.hi.png"]Colony 1[/URL]
Except the maps would be larger and I'd be making them for VOSK.[/QUOTE]My vote doesn't count. I'm not even participating in this rp, I just felt like rating. :v:
[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;34622084]Wouldn't be that complicated. Just a map. I'd be doing the updates on them so I wouldn't mind it. It also gives the player an incentive to expand their empire. Each planet makes an armada per turn. But the more planets/colonies you have the more armadas you can make per turn. Not only that but more colonies means more incoming resources and more possible orbital shipyards for [b]MEGA SHIPS[/b][/QUOTE]
The whole planet map thing is a dumb idea, from both sides of the argument. What Ven Kaeo is offering is stupid because I'm not comfortable with somebody who is actually participating as a race being the person that generates the maps, for balance reasons. It is also dumb to rely on some arbitrary map for the defence of your planets, planets should be defended from orbit with defence platforms and orbital rail guns rather than any haphazard ground defence.
The reason VOSKs suggestion of only maps for home planets is stupid is because that means you will need two systems of planet defence, one for all your other planets without maps and then another for just your home world.
I think just keep it simple, have planetary maps only as an aesthetic thing and the user submits them if they really want to have them.
[editline]eas[/editline]
Oh and if your argument for having maps is anything along the lines of "so we know what the planet is like" then I'm just going to say right now that when we discover new planets with scouts and what not VOSK will tell us what they are when we discover them, AKA "A Vanduran orbital telescope has discovered a new volcanic planet in the Eyndarr System. Scientists believe the planet to be in the habitable zone and possibly containing large quantities of rare metals, the planet has been designated AH-188."
Thought I'd post what my race, the Hyperkin, look like
[img]http://images.wikia.com/cryptozoologycryptids/images/2/2a/Lizard-man.jpg[/img]
and their slave species the Hadar
[img]http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100423070044/aliens/images/5/57/Stone_Toad.jpg[/img]
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