The Imperial Relics

[Galactic Effectuator]

The relics, through the test game, have only had specific point values for certain characters. The fun here is that owning a relic specific to your character type gives you a lot of help towards your points each turn.

However, a relic, such as The Book of the Dead Gods, is wanted by the Philosopher, the Terminator and there may be as many as 6 of these characters in a single universe. Defnite trade bait for the other characters who get no particular value for this specific relic

There is a large move afoot to give the relics certain local power, depending upon whether they are on a fleet or world. Maybe add an Imperial Credit at its location, that kind of thing. There is good and bad about that. The good part is, it is another one of those cool little complexities that give a game like this texture. The bad is, it does something for everyone and makes them less likely to get traded, which affects the game balance.

It is interesting to see that every little tweak of the game has a long term effect in this kind of game. Something that appears to be a small change often has a cumulative effect over the course of the game, turning into a massive issue by the end of the game. Many of the games aspects are planned to be that way. While IWars is intended to be a dynamic and responsive game to its players, changes must be tested and all of the consequences of even small tweaks observed.

It is likely that even after IWars is being played commercially, that we will still be running limited tests on issues such as whether relics should also have powers, even small local ones.

[Iucounu]

As you know, my friend, that has always been my point of view. I love the relics. I love their names and descriptions. I love how they inspired me to give them some visual life. So, I want them to do more, stictly in terms of texture and backstory. Maybe, only for the character that collects them.

I need to leave game balance to those who are more qualified.

Here they are: Larry should I be saving some images for the game? I'm obviously anxious for our citizens to see things : )

[raveneye]

i was thinking...relics can have a local power, but it doesn't have to be positive. i.e. maybe someone who doesn't get the bonuses for having something like The Book of the Dead Gods has decreased morale in his citizens or it drains resources or something. that adds flavor and makes the player who doesn't benefit from having x artifact want to get rid of it even more.

[The Weaver]

Here is a proposed new Book of dead Gods:

I like this one, not sure the GE does. More subtle, less to it. Open to comments as usual.

[The Weaver]

You've seen this one and the next in the Dev. Team dialogue.

[The Weaver]

The Cozy-X-Trang

[Cozy]

I've found out what bothers me most about crown. It's not symetric. I could go into reasoning how we generally perceive symetry as pleasing, blah blah but people manufacturing this crown could be so different from us ... or could they? Rest I'll try and draw

As for Tram, how you people do it is just beyond me. Those rings are just as I envisioned them but failed miserably at drawing them

Only, it looks like something is missing. I mean they are sort of just there. Seamingly not part of device. So, maybe some stuff that would look like it's producing them?

[The Weaver]

maybe something like this. I was thinking smoky or lightning-like

[Cozy]

about Tram.

Except maybe ... where do I buy one?

[The Weaver]

Thought you'd be interested in the inspiration for this weapon.

[Cozy]

Wicked, man. Would have never crossed my mind.