Cursed Talisman

[Joachim]

I despise this piece of technology. In fact it ruins PBW games by its existence. It makes economic management, carful ship design and reasonable play worthless.

Let me apologise to those people in NGC4 as I am using this silly game feature. In Negoc5 and Zeta, I also apologise, allthough given the game background and set up to not take religious was very, very brave.

Large PBW games become which team led by the talisman wins, others are merely targets or 'allies' to the mighty Talisman empire(s).

So, please, PLEASE dont put a Talisman in SEV.

[se5a]

if it didnt work vs fighters, drones, and misiles it would help...
then you could attempt to swamp the tailsman user with units

and make it more expencive so that only a certain number of ships can have it...

himnn howabout the more you have the cost multiplys?
so if oyu had 1 ship with it, it would cost X min,org,rad
if you have 2 it costs 1.5*X
etc. etc.

[bearclaw]

Better yet, what if you only had a certain number that could be built?

Perhaps a Talisman I means that you can build 2. Thats it. Only 2 ships in your entire empire could have it.

Talisman II means that 3 could be built

etc.

[Ruatha]

Originally posted by Joachim:
I despise this piece of technology. In fact it ruins PBW games by its existence. It makes economic management, carful ship design and reasonable play worthless.

Let me apologise to those people in NGC4 as I am using this silly game feature. In Negoc5 and Zeta, I also apologise, allthough given the game background and set up to not take religious was very, very brave.

Large PBW games become which team led by the talisman wins, others are merely targets or 'allies' to the mighty Talisman empire(s).

So, please, PLEASE dont put a Talisman in SEV.

I fully agree, and to those few in Zeta who doesn't have the talisman, I too apologize for the usage of ths abominable device at my races behalf.

[Paul1980au]

How about a talismant linked shield - ie if ship a is using talisman - then ship b being targetted will take 2000 points of damagae from such ships in addition to their normal damange - or yes make fighters etc more immune from it.

Or perhaps a planet construct that can block its use within the system.

[General Woundwort]

One mod (I don't remember which offhand) has "Prayer Lances", that have 100% chance to hit, but otherwise are a normal weapon (they do good damage IIRC). Replacing the Talisman with a "talismanic" weapon like that might be less unbalancing. That's what I'm planning on doing in the MOAM Mod.