Need help with custom faction

[PlutonianEmpire]

I'm creating a faction for smac which is basically a faction of suicidal nanorobots that destroy eachother, AND everyone else, endlessly with nuclear weapons. Now, I don't have crossfire, so it's technically a "human" faction until I DO get alien crossfire.

The idea is to cause total wanton destruction.

Alrighty. the problem is, I can't get the starting-game stuff to work correctly--only parts of it are getting into the game. For example, in the social engineering table, I see only three pre-set social effects, not the seven I specified in the faction's text file.

Here's the file, so you can try it out and see what i'm talking about.

[Senethro]

Ummmm.

Does this faction have a point to them at all? Why would you want to make them work?

[PlutonianEmpire]

it is one of those "just for fun" factions.

Basically, I got the idea while playing SimEarth (the computer game version), and nanorobots somehow got sentient. Just for fun, I had them go to nuke warfare. A glitch in the game keeps the robots in the civilization timescale even though the robots get to skip ahead to the technology age, so the timerate remains at 10 year intervals. The benefit of that is that nuclear contamination clears up more quickly, so when nuke wars start among robot "civilizations" in simearth, they get to resettle the area that was only a few seconds ago was contaminated with nukes.

Plus, you've heard of those grey goo doomsday scenarios, right? This faction just takes that to the nuclear extreme. I even made a civ2 MGE scenario of it.

[H.Humpel]

Huhh....

TECH, DigSent, TECH, Orbital, TECH, HAL9000, TECH, IndRob, FACILITY, 20, SOCIAL, --------PLANET, SOCIAL, ++++++++GROWTH, SOCIAL, ++++++++INDUSTRY, SOCIAL, ++++++++EFFIC, SOCIAL, ++++++++ECONOMY, SOCIAL, ++++++++RESEARCH, SOCIAL, ++++++++PROBE, MINDCONTROL, 0, IMPUNITY, Cybernetic, INTEREST, 80, POPULATION, -80,

pretty extrem, isn't it . Well, I'll give it a try anyway.

Anyway, I think extrem is what we need most as there are a lot of "normal/realistic" custom factions out there (and most of the are pretty similar to other existing ones, too). But it just has to be "not too extrem".... we'll see how this one will work in some games .

[Chaos Theory]

You can only have 8 members from a set of faction abilities (you can have any number of members from the other set). This restricted list is:

Specified free tech (TECH, Ecology)
FACILITY
FREEFAC (SMAX)
UNIT
SOCIAL
ROBUST
IMMUNITY
IMPUNITY
PENALTY
FUNGNUTRIENT/FUNGMINERALS/FUNGENERGY
VOTES
REVOLT (SMAX)
NODRONE (SMAX)
FREEABIL (SMAX)
PROBECOST (SMAX)
OFFENSE (SMAX)
DEFENSE (SMAX)

You are way over this limit.

[PlutonianEmpire]

So, what do you suggest I change/get rid of to better simulate the faction i'm trying to create?

[Senethro]

Originally posted by PlutonianEmpire
So, what do you suggest I change/get rid of to better simulate the faction i'm trying to create?

1000000 ecs, +10 fung nutrients, Growth +6, Talents +A MILLION, starting tech: MMI.

As an intellectual exercise for everyone, what is the least number of traits you can think of to make an overpowered faction. Maybe we could even play them off against each other. "Cool" points will be awarded for creativity and not for Free facility: Ascent to Transcendance.

[PlutonianEmpire]

what's ecs?

[GeoModder]

Energy Credits

[Maniac]

Originally posted by Senethro
As an intellectual exercise for everyone, what is the least number of traits you can think of to make an overpowered faction.

+ a million fungus energy and minerals. Research to Treshold and build the Ascent in two turns.

[#endgame]

Maniac: Insane ecodamage? Get mindwormed on turn 5?

[Maniac]

Turn 5? I have transcended by then.

[PlutonianEmpire]

How in the world do you do THAT by turn 5?!

[Dygash]

Its great to see people are still making new factions settler. Respect to you. I am currently laying down some faction creation plans of my own, wanting to create something different (which naturally everyone does) and i'm writing a backstory so that the faction can be understood better. So would your faction be able to obtain planet buster tech pretty fast? Lol can you imagine in 60 years obtaining planet buster tech??? the Spartans would wet their pants.

[PlutonianEmpire]

When I first created my plutonian empire faction, I literally handed the PB over to myself on a platter--gave it orbital spaceflight for one of the starting techs. Imagine the fun that would bring. lol

And yeah, it'd be nice to develop PB tech by 2160.