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OUCH! Can't Planet take a joke?
Well, I had something rather suprising and interesting happen to me. I was playing on the standard map of planet on Thinker as the CC. Unfortunately, I hadn't built up terribly well, and was having some difficulties with the Diedre and Miriam. Not wanting to try and build up a huge military while I was doing other stuff, I noticed that I had Nerve Gas Pods in my unit workshop.
I'd never used them before, in any game, so I figured I might as well give them as go, as I was at war with everyone anyway. In very short order my X-Chaos Choppers were simply erasing base after Gaian base. Then I got a sea base in range of the Believers and their cities started to melt as well. Sure, everyone hated me, but I was cleaning up with very little effort.
Then the trouble started. Maybe I gassed some native life, that's the only thing I can think of... but a turn or two after destroying New Jersuelum, all my bases (even the tiny new ones) jumped to SEVENTY PLUS Eco-Damage. Every turn at each base my terraforming began to disapear beneath a tide of fungus and dozens of huge boils of mind-worms, spore launchers, and locusts began to assault my bases. To round it off, every turn or two the game would announce that the ocean levels would rise further and further.
I was not at all prepared for a massive assault on my peacefull homeland, and my bases started to crumble. I struggled to buy Presure Domes and specially manufacture cheap Trance defenders. By now most of my bases were up to 90 or 99 eco-damage and the real carnage was begining. In a little over a decade all my bases except one had been destroyed and just about every square on the map except for a few like the very top of Mount Planet was endagered by rising tides. The tech to launch solar shades hadn't arrived yet, so that was out.
Amusingly, when I was down to my last city, once on the shore of the Freshwater Sea, but now sitting in broad expanse of water, the Eco-Damage stopped. I think the hundreds (no kidding) of mind-worms all disappered the same turn. The oceans continued to rise though, until there was almost no land above water. I quickly built four or five bases on the fully terraformed remains of the Freshwater Sea, but to little avail. A custom faction of evil cultists I had designed that had built many sea bases and preasure domes declared itself Supreme Leader and I gave the game up for lost.
I was under the impression that this sort of environmental reaction only occured if you used LOTS of Planet Busters. After all, why would Planet care if I wiped out all those dirty poluting human cities?
I don't think this was an error, but I suppose it could have been.
Does anyone else use gas regularly without this reaction occuring? I suppose if I had been prepared I could have survived. I would have needed maybe the Citizen's Defense, Preasure Domes, Neural Amplifier, and large numbers of Tranced AAA defenders. It would have had a serious effect on my empire (losing 90% of my terraforming) but I probably still could have gassed the badguys to death with boats or something.
It was actually sort of fun trying to fight off Planet. I think I may play a game on a huge map and purposfully do the same thing again, to see if I can resist it when prepared instead of utterly suprised and unready.
If you do enough atrocities of any kind does this reaction always come about? Surely if I just nerve-stapled (something I find nearly useless) and eradicated bases, Planet wouldn't care...
Anyway, any similar stories or stratigies to use gas without triggering a fungal appocalypse would be appreciated.
Joe
[This message has been edited by Joe Bourque (edited March 31, 2000).]
I'd never used them before, in any game, so I figured I might as well give them as go, as I was at war with everyone anyway. In very short order my X-Chaos Choppers were simply erasing base after Gaian base. Then I got a sea base in range of the Believers and their cities started to melt as well. Sure, everyone hated me, but I was cleaning up with very little effort.
Then the trouble started. Maybe I gassed some native life, that's the only thing I can think of... but a turn or two after destroying New Jersuelum, all my bases (even the tiny new ones) jumped to SEVENTY PLUS Eco-Damage. Every turn at each base my terraforming began to disapear beneath a tide of fungus and dozens of huge boils of mind-worms, spore launchers, and locusts began to assault my bases. To round it off, every turn or two the game would announce that the ocean levels would rise further and further.
I was not at all prepared for a massive assault on my peacefull homeland, and my bases started to crumble. I struggled to buy Presure Domes and specially manufacture cheap Trance defenders. By now most of my bases were up to 90 or 99 eco-damage and the real carnage was begining. In a little over a decade all my bases except one had been destroyed and just about every square on the map except for a few like the very top of Mount Planet was endagered by rising tides. The tech to launch solar shades hadn't arrived yet, so that was out.
Amusingly, when I was down to my last city, once on the shore of the Freshwater Sea, but now sitting in broad expanse of water, the Eco-Damage stopped. I think the hundreds (no kidding) of mind-worms all disappered the same turn. The oceans continued to rise though, until there was almost no land above water. I quickly built four or five bases on the fully terraformed remains of the Freshwater Sea, but to little avail. A custom faction of evil cultists I had designed that had built many sea bases and preasure domes declared itself Supreme Leader and I gave the game up for lost.
I was under the impression that this sort of environmental reaction only occured if you used LOTS of Planet Busters. After all, why would Planet care if I wiped out all those dirty poluting human cities?
I don't think this was an error, but I suppose it could have been.Does anyone else use gas regularly without this reaction occuring? I suppose if I had been prepared I could have survived. I would have needed maybe the Citizen's Defense, Preasure Domes, Neural Amplifier, and large numbers of Tranced AAA defenders. It would have had a serious effect on my empire (losing 90% of my terraforming) but I probably still could have gassed the badguys to death with boats or something.
It was actually sort of fun trying to fight off Planet. I think I may play a game on a huge map and purposfully do the same thing again, to see if I can resist it when prepared instead of utterly suprised and unready.
If you do enough atrocities of any kind does this reaction always come about? Surely if I just nerve-stapled (something I find nearly useless) and eradicated bases, Planet wouldn't care...
Anyway, any similar stories or stratigies to use gas without triggering a fungal appocalypse would be appreciated.
Joe
[This message has been edited by Joe Bourque (edited March 31, 2000).]
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