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Spectral Empire Teaser Video
x4000:
--- Quote from: mrhanman on August 21, 2014, 08:28:53 am ---I just thought it meant that the player is the last one of his kind.
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It was my own mistake, I realize, in how I'm phrasing that line. I'm going to have to redo that line at some point in the future. The "you" is plural. The player is in charge of a group of citizens fleeing... something... and they arrive at this planet as supposedly the last of their kind.
Depending on which race(s) you choose to play as (there is multiplayer), those are the ones that fled and are just arriving, while the other races are more established and have been there for a long time already. So you're the tiny newcomers, against existing empires.
wwwhhattt:
So there's no fixed past or present for the races in the game, it just depends who you start as?
x4000:
--- Quote from: wwwhhattt on August 21, 2014, 10:16:45 am ---So there's no fixed past or present for the races in the game, it just depends who you start as?
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It depends on even more than who you start as. There's some history with all of the races that are on the planet that is procedurally generated. Whoever you start as is starting with a blank slate in terms of landing on the planet new, but the rest of the races there have a history with one another, and that will vary from game to game.
Draco18s:
X, have I mentioned the anime "Last Exile" yet?
If I didn't, now I have, and you should watch it. Especially Last Exile: Fam the Silver Wing.
Teal_Blue:
--- Quote from: x4000 on August 21, 2014, 10:20:50 am ---
--- Quote from: wwwhhattt on August 21, 2014, 10:16:45 am ---So there's no fixed past or present for the races in the game, it just depends who you start as?
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It depends on even more than who you start as. There's some history with all of the races that are on the planet that is procedurally generated. Whoever you start as is starting with a blank slate in terms of landing on the planet new, but the rest of the races there have a history with one another, and that will vary from game to game.
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I am rather excited about this, it may be obvious, or perhaps I am seeing something more than is there, but if the race history is randomized with each game, depending on which race the player selects, then thait could mean that treaties, or wars, or embargo's, or alliances or even the percent of buildup, or strength of a given race will be different. Even perhaps the type of focus of the race will be different for each race for each game... ie, agricultural in one game, military expansion in the second game, or trade focus in the third game, etc, etc... (these for the non-chosen race of course, as the player will decide the direction of the race they choose?
Or maybe I've got it all wrong, I was just thinking what if the races were aligned in a specific way, and they play that way through each game, and it is the player deciding which 'approach' they will try that changes how the game plays out?
anyway, I thought I had it, but maybe I am guessing wrong, anyway, just a thought.
-Teal
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