Black MarRRRrket, pirRrates and RRRR.

[Hartmann]

So, I've got that super-duper thingy called a black market. [edit for racial slur]
In the depth of the coloured market, there is a lone shop, selling hydra weapons, in exchange for 12,000¤. Which is over 9,000.
But there's a catch : I cannot buy it, for a very strange reason : it says "should not be displayed". And considering how boring fights are right now, having another weapon would be good, just to break the monotony of spreadshot/energy-charger/gravity lance.
Except that the minority market doesn't sell it. Dammit.

I got another question, less filled with offensive jokes : the pirates. They don't appear on the mappemonde/galaxy-view/big ball of wibbly wobbly timey whiney stuff, and yet I can still attack them, their base, their family, make them prisoner, and torture them by calling them names and making stupids "yo mama so fat an acutian CEO tried to colonize her".
Most of my prisoners would rather jump out of an airlock rather than staying my prisoners, but I know my jokes are fun.

And what's with trends? The space boars (I think they're called thoraxian or something), have under -2,000 in public health. Basically, it's scarytown down there. I often meddle in their politic and convince them to focus on public health, but as soon as I leave, they invest in something else. It's like they don't believe the benelovent giant four-headed hydra. Which breaks one of my four hearts.
Speaking of four-headed hydras, cloning bay and ground assault when? I want to NOM NOM NOM some aliens. Bonus point if I can experiment on my hydra and have it breath fire. Because throwing up fire from 4 mouths at once sounds AWESOME. It's like being FOUR dragons, AT ONCE.
Take that, Dragon Commander, you're old and buried. And I never liked you anyway, with your FPS of 5 and your stupid political system.

[keith.lamothe]

Your particular brand of humor is always interesting to me, but please refrain from racial-slur type material.  It makes a large section of our customer base uncomfortable.  More uncomfortable than the rest of your usual brand of humor, I mean

"Black Market" is just a term (fairly common in contemporary usage) for an exchange operating outside the law.


As for why you couldn't buy that weaopn, I'm not sure exactly.  A screenshot of when it told you that would help, and a save-game from that point in the game would help even more.


The pirates will send ships on the metamap, but you won't see their bases there.  FWIW they're all in the asteroid belt and ice belt, but conceptually they don't stay in one place very long.  Neon signs saying "PIRATES HERE" would probably not be conducive to their extended existence.

As for how you can find them, well... because Batman.


On the Thoraxian (or Boarine, or whatever) fixation on having really, really poor sanitation, I'm not sure what's going on there.  Maybe that planet was captured a bunch of times.  Or maybe they just really rolled a lot of negative trends on it.  You could spend a bunch of years providing medical assistance (one of the dispatch missions) but overall it may be best to just let them be Scarytown and go about your business.


And no, you cannot genetically modify or involve your Hydral in ground combat.  Sorry, we had to stop at making two games for this one

[Hartmann]

As for why you couldn't buy that weaopn, I'm not sure exactly.  A screenshot of when it told you that would help, and a save-game from that point in the game would help even more.

On the Thoraxian (or Boarine, or whatever) fixation on having really, really poor sanitation, I'm not sure what's going on there.  Maybe that planet was captured a bunch of times.  Or maybe they just really rolled a lot of negative trends on it.  You could spend a bunch of years providing medical assistance (one of the dispatch missions) but overall it may be best to just let them be Scarytown and go about your business.


And no, you cannot genetically modify or involve your Hydral in ground combat.  Sorry, we had to stop at making two games for this one

Yo, homies. Here's dah screen from me game.


Can't see ship, cap'tain? Right-click on that sucker and click on "display picture", brudda. I didn't know if I can put on a save, things have changed in the galaxy, you see, acutians everywhere, they don't like me or my brothers, so I had to move to Bel-Air a bit.

Going by the hearsay from the streets, me heard one and two saying boars be like tough as nail and be constantly sick with stuff.

As for not hydra, that's a shame, homie, 'cause if I don't see it constantly, I forget I'm an hydra, and it causes me problem and stuff when I read stuff about four-head, and I'm like "dude, are you high or something? Ya mocking me, mate? Ya want to me shank you?" and then I remember, my brother play the game and liked the hydra in it, and then I'm like "oh damn right I' have four heads".

[GC13]

Weren't you specifically asked not to do the kind of humor you just did?

Translate it into normal speak for me: do you, or do you not, already have all of the weapons available?

[Hartmann]

Translate it into normal speak for me: do you, or do you not, already have all of the weapons available?

This, I do not know, just as thou assumeth I hold in my knowledge all of the strifing tools available to me, I hate to destroyeth thy hopes, but I doth not know, as, to my smalleth knowledge, there is no such thingeth as a listeth of available strifing implements.

[keith.lamothe]

That message means there's nothing left in that category to buy, it just isn't as eloquent as you and lacks the right text to express itself.

[Azurian]

I understand his words, its Californian skater slang (I'm in Los Angeles), but  I can see how people unaware of it can think he is making jokes because its not really common outside California and is a bit ineloquent.

[Hartmann]

It just isn't as eloquent as you and lacks the right text to express itself.

My English teacher would have been proud to read that.
I guess I can fix it, I managed to find the text file. I can't wait to turn acutians into l33t 5P35K5R5. And burkufs (the warmongers) into the Tourette Guys.
I think I'm going to have as much fun in that game as I had in A Valley Without Wind. Replacing all the music by Killer7 music, replace sound by EXPLOSIONS, and replace text by more flavoured text. I'll finally be able to understand who exactly is tweeting on the bottom of the screen.


And I can't wait to have a race saying "Imma shank ya mate." to another. This is going to be the best war declaration ever.