Re: Minor race advancement
Posted: Fri May 29, 2020 8:11 am
Aside the WDP maybe the reputation also could need a bit restructuration. In my games I usually succeeded in reaching top trust/reputation with other factions over time. I only needed peace, pacts and mostly one diplomat. I didn't even need another one, because afterwards relations stayed perfect.
Maybe that could change, too: With time perfect relations cooling off, so you can't be best friend with everyone at once.
Also it may be helpful to have reputation (or trust) drop with expansion.
I look at it from the angle of Klingon and Romulans, in terms of their long clinch with the Federation.
We Trekkies tend to see most things through Fed eyes. However as a Klingon or Romulan one must consider the unnaturally quick expansion of the Federation.
The Federations trick was to democratly assimilate other minor races into the "Human Sapiens Club". Thanks to that they expanded much quicker than Klingons and Romulans ever did.
This surely added a lost tension and mistrust. Similar to the alpha quadrants fear of the huge Dominion, which led to the humiliating assault of Tal'Shiar and Obsidian Commando on the "founder home world" (good example for counter-Intelligence and attack on perceived weak target).
I wouldn't necessarily make this WDP relevant. Bit it would be nice, if following expansion would cause negative relation effects:
- Conquering a minor (mostly for Fed, not for C/K)
- Conquering anothers faction planet (mostly for F)
- Membership with a minor (mostly for K, not for F)
- Alliance with a close minor or rivaling faction (not for F)
- any colony the faction has more than I do (for everyone, because this fear is universal)
Maybe that could change, too: With time perfect relations cooling off, so you can't be best friend with everyone at once.
Also it may be helpful to have reputation (or trust) drop with expansion.
I look at it from the angle of Klingon and Romulans, in terms of their long clinch with the Federation.
We Trekkies tend to see most things through Fed eyes. However as a Klingon or Romulan one must consider the unnaturally quick expansion of the Federation.
The Federations trick was to democratly assimilate other minor races into the "Human Sapiens Club". Thanks to that they expanded much quicker than Klingons and Romulans ever did.
This surely added a lost tension and mistrust. Similar to the alpha quadrants fear of the huge Dominion, which led to the humiliating assault of Tal'Shiar and Obsidian Commando on the "founder home world" (good example for counter-Intelligence and attack on perceived weak target).
I wouldn't necessarily make this WDP relevant. Bit it would be nice, if following expansion would cause negative relation effects:
- Conquering a minor (mostly for Fed, not for C/K)
- Conquering anothers faction planet (mostly for F)
- Membership with a minor (mostly for K, not for F)
- Alliance with a close minor or rivaling faction (not for F)
- any colony the faction has more than I do (for everyone, because this fear is universal)