your favorite race so far?.

[crazyroosterman]

hey guys i was just wondering what your favorite race is so far?(it dosent have to be a player centric race) so far mines a split betwen the peltians and the boarines i  like the peltians because of their money making but i also realy like the boarines because their ground troops arent made of glass like the peltians are.

[TheVampire100]

Peltians because they are cute.
Zenith because they have crazy amounts of energy.
Skylaxians because of all the science

[Captain Jack]

I've never interacted with them, but the Acutians by a mile. Check their linguistics quotes, one of their sayings is "Get out of my office you are fired."

fake edit: Wait I interacted with them once, when I blew up a cobalt bomb and made everyone kneel before me.

[x4000]

You are fired, numbskull.  Get out of my office!
You have upper management written all over you.
All things come to those who prey upon the blind.
A fool and his money are exactly what to look for.
War or peace matters little, so long as the result is wealth.
The chemical interest of the smog varies pleasantly day by day.
Few things cannot be solved by strapping rockets to a large object.


...those guys are fun to write for.

[crazyroosterman]

speaking of pollution I started my first felyn game up today  and I have to ask are they meant to have such pathetic pollution cleaning ability's.(I know mechanically its fine since they produce such little trash that you get far less pollution out put any way due to lack of trash dump necessity but I just thought these guys would be better at cleaning considering what little I know of them so far)

[x4000]

They're meant to be very bad at cleaning pollution via hazmat, because their terraformed land is really good at cleaning pollution.  So you're supposed to be using the organic approach with them (putting their terraformed land inside your city in different ways) rather than the mechanical hazmat approach.

This is another good example of where tooltips are needed, and probably should go in mantis.  It might also be that their terraformed land isn't quite as good a pollution cleaner as it needs to be, I'm not sure.  But at any rate that was the design intent: it should make for cities that look extremely differently with these guys.

[crazyroosterman]

ohhhhhh my I wasn't even aware there terraforming cleans pollution(THATS FREAKING AWESOME!) on terms of land cleaning effectiveness ill seriously need to play this game a for a while more to be comment on that obviously and I absolutely 200 and 10 per cent agree that they need toltips I made a suggestion about racial toltips on mantis some were in-between the first and second patch(I think?) since it got no notice I assumed you were to busy with other things.

[x4000]

I noticed your report, don't worry!  Just remember that the redshirt experience is basically "not much in the way of tooltips."  To some extent this does tell me what's not implicitly clear -- what can you figure out even without tooltips?  That's useful to learn, which I have been.  Plus in general I've been focused on getting things functional and balanced prior to working on documentation too much.

Right now there's a ginormous backlog of stuff in mantis, and it will be that way for a while, but we're going to be carving into that more and more with time!

[crazyroosterman]

what have I been able to figure out by my self(not regarding the social policy because you'd have to be blind not to understand those) well the fact that the peltian ground troops are so pathetic its not even worth using g t buildings(although that was before the range reduction patch) the fact that their missiles are borderline op the boarines I've discovered really hate being put in dense housing and they have a unique atmosphere chemical that none of the other races have apart from that I haven't been able to get far enough any of the races to really comment more.

[crazyroosterman]

are you sure the felyn tera cleans pollution I've gotten terraforming and it doesn't seem to be cleaning anything?.

[Aklyon]

what have I been able to figure out by my self(not regarding the social policy because you'd have to be blind not to understand those) well the fact that the peltian ground troops are so pathetic its not even worth using g t buildings(although that was before the range reduction patch) the fact that their missiles are borderline op the boarines I've discovered really hate being put in dense housing and they have a unique atmosphere chemical that none of the other races have apart from that I haven't been able to get far enough any of the races to really comment more.

Peltians being godawful at ground combat and Boarines not liking being too close together certainly sounds right from a TLF view.

[crazyroosterman]

okay id like to add the felyns  to this my favourite list turns out their social perks are really sexy you can get massive trash reduction massive disease immunity social point and just a lot of sexy perks really only annoying thing are the gimped hazmats though that should be a non issue when their teraforms get fixed.

[ptarth]

Fenyn terraforming pollution scrubbing should be fixed now.

[x4000]

Fenyn terraforming pollution scrubbing should be fixed now.

Possibly.  Not sure if it is working or not, but the underlying values are now right.  Keith is still going to be looking into the display and the code.

[ptarth]

Actually, I tested it last night but forgot I had made the post. It doesn't seem to be working. Mantis was up yesterday.