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I grant you I am not the strongest of players but my finely honed paranoia and long experience of space strategy games such as MOO2 and MOO3 and others have led me to one inescapable conclusion; they are all a part of diabolical plot by aliens to take over the human race!
My reasoning is thus. I have never played as any other species than one of the humanoid races (I just cant empathise with insectoids or reptilians or rock-oids or whatever) but no matter how quickly I try to colonise, how I crank out the production of factories and ships and military the aliens, whether lizzardy looking things, or crystalline paperweighty-looking things or pizza-looking things with tentacles etc, always seem to outperform me! When I establish first contact with them (and in MOO3, that means almost inevitably to be categorised as a galactic pest to be exterminated - so much for high diplomacy) I find they usually have far more planets from which of course they can proceed to churn out crushing military assets. (I have just come across this reptilian race called the Einarii, or something like that and they possess 600 plus worlds and have a zillion military points! I havent a third of that! And yes, they are creaming me!)
We know how prolific insects are and that if they were just a few feet taller, went to school and had limbs which could more easily hold a gun, would probably rule the world!
So, it got me to thinking that what didnt get into the plotline of the X-Files, though I think it should, is in the the first stage of an alien invasion the best and brightest of us (i.e. those who love and play space strategy games) would get so demoralised by trying to play the humanoid species that we would realise when the real invasion came that, in the immortal phrase, 'resistance is useless!'
I dunno. Maybe I aint doing it right and shouldnt give up my day job? What do y'all think?
Live long and prosper.
My reasoning is thus. I have never played as any other species than one of the humanoid races (I just cant empathise with insectoids or reptilians or rock-oids or whatever) but no matter how quickly I try to colonise, how I crank out the production of factories and ships and military the aliens, whether lizzardy looking things, or crystalline paperweighty-looking things or pizza-looking things with tentacles etc, always seem to outperform me! When I establish first contact with them (and in MOO3, that means almost inevitably to be categorised as a galactic pest to be exterminated - so much for high diplomacy) I find they usually have far more planets from which of course they can proceed to churn out crushing military assets. (I have just come across this reptilian race called the Einarii, or something like that and they possess 600 plus worlds and have a zillion military points! I havent a third of that! And yes, they are creaming me!)
We know how prolific insects are and that if they were just a few feet taller, went to school and had limbs which could more easily hold a gun, would probably rule the world!
So, it got me to thinking that what didnt get into the plotline of the X-Files, though I think it should, is in the the first stage of an alien invasion the best and brightest of us (i.e. those who love and play space strategy games) would get so demoralised by trying to play the humanoid species that we would realise when the real invasion came that, in the immortal phrase, 'resistance is useless!'
I dunno. Maybe I aint doing it right and shouldnt give up my day job? What do y'all think?
Live long and prosper.
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