Comments on: Species: Arc’kha’to

By: TSeeker

TSeeker — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:25:18 +0000

@Yuckwitte:
“[...] and wouldn’t having less brain power make you incredibly vulnerable to propaganda as you take what is being said to you as factual and therefore get affected by it?”

Controllers are extremely stupid and extremely undisciplined – trying to get them to like you through propaganda is about as useful as talking to half a brick, although the brick won’t bite you in return. They are in fact very primitive, so it’d be like trying to tame wasps.

Their being mostly immune to propaganda has a good side and a bad side if you own a planet with some of them on it – your influence upon them will solely depend on what you actually do to/with them, which basically means following the way they live (that is ok as long as you don’t care about any other type of population and don’t need any research done). It also means that, while you won’t be able to “tame” them, other empires’ spies will be useless against them.

By: ju

ju — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:10:10 +0000

We don’t want to put in place such very special cases. However if you gain control over a planet hosting controllers, or if one of them is very close to your empire and you have a high influence on it, since population migration occurs naturally between planets, they can end up infesting your other planets.

By: Lemorsa

Lemorsa — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:01:15 +0000

If someone attacks a controllers planet, isn’t there a good chance that their fleets will be infested, therefore, when the fleets travel to other planets, that planet would become infested also? It would just make sense to me.

By: ju

ju — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:02:49 +0000

As for the name it came from our imagination…

By: ju

ju — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:58:43 +0000

The player is considered as a human leader ruling a human empire. As such no species is “playable” except humans. However he can conquer planets hosting alien population. Therefore he ends up with mixed population planets or at least a mixed population empire.
Non-player empires are usually of alien species too.
Planets around the universe should be mostly empty and you’ll have to colonise them with population coming from your other planets.
As for propaganda it can work both ways: either you believe everything you’re told and you’re very vulnerable to it or you don’t give a damn/don’t understand what you’re told…

By: Johns9994

Johns9994 — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:14:49 +0000

Where did you get the name from?

By: Yuckwitte

Yuckwitte — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:12:35 +0000

Are these a race you can play or are these NPCs?

If they are a race which you can play (which I figure they are), will they be able to join alliances, if someone takes a planet from them will it have 0 population, will they be able to transport people from other colonies onto their planets and wouldn’t having less brain power make you incredibly vulnerable to propaganda as you take what is being said to you as factual and therefore get affected by it?