Biological drones are the achievement of many years of scientific discovery and advancement; they are produced by humans as a general purpose, low-maintenance workforce. Appearance Biological drones were made to look like humans: they were designed to their creators’ image. They have a limited understanding to prevent people from getting worried about what would happen [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Raw bits category.
Banking
In Beta 6, an empire’s primary cash reserve is limited to at most 2 billions. All cash earned after this limit is reached will be wasted. In addition, 75% of the empire’s main cash reserve is split between its planets, the exact proportions depending on the planet’s category. When a planet is taken by an [...]
Resources
We have already mentioned several times in comments that Beta 6 would include more resources than just money. There are in fact several types of natural resources which can be mined from various sources such as nebulae or asteroids. There are 3 different types of resources: gases, minerals and dark matter. While dark matter is [...]
Species: Arc’kha’to
The Arc’kha’to, often referred to as controllers, are a species of ugly, parasitic and predatory aliens. Appearance It is very hard to describe an Arc’kha’to as most of its appearance is determined by the host it currently uses. However, a host infested with an Arc’kha’to can be identified by the various protuberances and nodes that [...]
Ship hulls
A ship’s hull is the main component of its design. While a ship is of course to limited to a single hull, this choice has a lot of consequences, from influencing the space available inside the ship to the type of components which can be used to whether or not the ship requires a crew [...]
Hangar bays
LegacyWorlds Beta 6 will feature different types of hangar bays which can be included in a ship’s design. These hangar bays allow to carry various smaller ships which don’t have hyperspace engines through hyperspace.
Generators (2/2)
As a follow up from our previous post about generators which can be installed in ships, this post presents the last two categories: biological generators and zero-point generators.
Mechanical generators
LegacyWorlds Beta 6 will feature different types of generators which can be included in a ship’s design to produce the required power. Each type of generator is based on a different energy source / concept and is declined into various upgrades. In this first post we introduce the mechanical generators – which are of course [...]
Missile countermeasures
Missile countermeasures come in various types and shapes; some will disrupt a missile’s guidance system while others will try to get a missile to explode before it can reach its target. Quite obviously, they protect ships against missiles. Missile countermeasures come in three different types.
Space-time drilling
Space-time drilling is a technology allowing an alliance to bypass the standard fleet movements rules by jumping to a layer directly without having to go through supergates (it doesn’t allow players to jump to a different protection level tho). While this very powerful technology has quite a few inconvenients (it costs a lot and presents [...]