Ummmm can you please change the name? Your kind of copying me......

Cool glad to see another Nomad faction being entered. Here's mine give it a look, I think you'll find we have some thing's in common.

Bluecreeper101 wrote:

Ummmm can you please change the name? Your kind of copying me......

No Plagiarization intended. I'm sorry for not found the duplication sooner, haven't read others creations when I submitted this thread.

I'll edit their name to prevent misdirection with yours . But I cannot change the Thread's subject, They only allow me to edit the message.

Cool idea. I love their backstory and motivations. I have some questions about the specifics of how their nomadic nature works gameplay-wise.

• Are native populations included in their empire? i.e. do they participate in the senate and do they contribute to FIDS production?
• I've seen the devs mention elsewhere that system ownership can't be shared. So does building the orbital platforms make that system owned by the Shattered? Or not? How does this work?
• Is the Mothership a ship, in that it participates in space battles? Or does it behave more like a planet, in that it can be invaded and captured like a homeworld?

Keep it up!  

ARLeader wrote:

Bluecreeper101 wrote:

Ummmm can you please change the name? Your kind of copying me......

No Plagiarization intended. I'm sorry for not found the duplication sooner, haven't read others creations when I submitted this thread.

I'll edit their name to prevent misdirection with yours . But I cannot change the Thread's subject, They only allow me to edit the message.

Thank you, didn't mean to sound rude, a shame we can't change titles. I like the submission nevertheless!

carolean7 wrote:

Cool idea. I love their backstory and motivations. I have some questions about the specifics of how their nomadic nature works gameplay-wise.

• Are native populations included in their empire? i.e. do they participate in the senate and do they contribute to FIDS production?
• I've seen the devs mention elsewhere that system ownership can't be shared. So does building the orbital platforms make that system owned by the Shattered? Or not? How does this work?
• Is the Mothership a ship, in that it participates in space battles? Or does it behave more like a planet, in that it can be invaded and captured like a homeworld?

Keep it up!  

Regarding your questions.

1.  Population Resources
   1. The political system in ES2 should not be affected by the faction mechanic. It can be played as the same as other factions.
   2. Population - I leave them as a faction negative factor. Since the platfom will mine every planets on the system (With -% if required tech is no researched)
   3. Maybe the platform deployment could require a population which passively generated. But that seem to over-complicated their gameplay. (Quite the same as the Cultists, They have to be picky about their platform deployment in order to be able to compete with other factions)
2. Borders
   1. This faction cannot own a system, thus no border influence victory for them :(
   2. The platform act like a normal unit. To counter their lack of border. The bonus from playform should be good enough for other factions to consider letting you settle in their systems.
3. Mothership
   1. The Mothership will be mainly treated as a unit. It combat & economic capability can be improved by building tech improvements when stationed on a system.
   2. It would be destroyed in case of defeats. But the attacker really need to commit their forces to overcome its defense & firepower.
   3. Lorewise, its massive size could leave them vulnerable to siege weapons but this will be followed with more design choices regarding siege combats
      1. For the fortification HP, the mothership could be too powerful to be destroyed in space battle & Invasion unless their fortification HP is low enough.
      2. Land(?) Invasion - If they managed to bring the fortification HP down to that level, I think the attacker has already wn. They could just send in their combat fleet and blew it up.

The more I write this, the more I found that this faction is essentially a space Cultists.