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Topic: Star Control Origins, game mechanics (Spoilers!!!) (Read 5780 times)
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Krulle
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On a specific request by the forum admins, Origins discussions should be done here, in the Starbase Café.
So, I've been watching Marbozir's game of Origins.
And after episode three, I saw something hitting my nerve.The trading post (Episode 3, starting at 21:30) is needed to get something you should bring someone else.....
How can aliens accept RU's banked at the Starbase around Earth? You can't give them the RU, because the Ressources ar stored at Starbase (besides the ones you carry around, and scavenge from the last battles). But the RU's you sell them would also not be available for Earth's Starbase for Vindicator improvements and modules.
IMHO, aliens trading with you in RU would need their own accounting, otherwise Earth's Starbase and/or the aliens would have to ship ressourcs back and forth so that the aliens actually get the ressourcs they traded for.
Same with the alien starbase later in the game.
Logically, this is a breaker for me. How??.?
EDIT 27-Sep-19: edited title
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PRH
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Your RU account is the same wherever you go in SCO.
Whether you're at the Star Control starbase around Earth, any of the Precursor starbases, an allied planet, or a neutral trading post, you still use the same RUs wherever you go.
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Krulle
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How?
I mean, no-one is transferring the actual ressources from Earth's Starbase to the aliens, or vice versa.
Humanity has no hyperdrives, so they cannot do it for you.
So, you actually pay with a check that has no value....
Man, this is a storyline breaker for me. A glaring one.
(And space is a little too bustling. And improving your ship while in combat? A spaceship crew is good, but not that good.)
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Maybe RUs are refined building-block materials you bring with you everywhere that take up very little space?
A bit like how you can scavenge RUs from destroyed vessels in combat in SC2, and they don't take up any cargo space.
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Krulle
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Wouldn't fit why StarControl wants you to bring as many RU back to Earth, to pay for the construction of your ship....
By now I also dislike the EXCEPTION NAMENOTFOUND stations, be ause I find they appear too often.
Although I do like the idea and implementation of how more tech gets available...
And the rescue when without fuel in hyperspace? Only one day back to Sol? I would've expected more time loss....
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Oh, I don't mind the starbases per se. I mind their abundance, and that they use the same RU account.
And no, the Tyworm do not use a "hypergate". (Why would they themselves fly through Hyperspace then?) They tow you back.
(an example of stranding in hyperspace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n01K6nXkx1o&t=42m09s )
They use a hyperfield projector to tow you back to Sol. (44:49 of the same video)
And towing a very large ship (or even a whole fleet) usually slows you down quite a bit.
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Right... I remembered wrong then. I only listened to that dialogue the first time around, and skipped it whenever it came up later.
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RU is ultimately just an abstraction in a video game. I wouldn't take it so seriously.
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CelticMinstrel
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I'd say they would've done better to call their currency StarBucks after SC1; Krulle's point about RU makes a lot of sense to me. Though as Zanthius says, it shows more imagination to suppose that perhaps not aliens accept the same currencies; but still, if there must be a universal currency, it makes more sense for it to be a fiat currency (eg coins) rather than a credit account. RU is definitely not a fiat currency in SC2; it's basically a form of credit account. "Since you brought me this much resources, I own you this much in return."
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Krulle
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RU is ultimately just an abstraction in a video game. I wouldn't take it so seriously.
I love that you cannot use RU when you trade with the Melnorme in SC2. It shows that the creators have a sufficiently good imagination of alien species to imagine that there might actually be alien species that couldn't care less about USD. Here on Earth, you can hardly find any human that doesn't accept USD as a currency.
And only two of them were convertible to each other.
But in the Let's Play, when the player met the Maelnir (previously Maelnum, before that Melnorme), the RU account got shown.
I understand that Stardock had to move away from the way the original was played a bit, as with a separate "information account" (Interstar Credits) as the UQM-Melnorme might have been one more step towards substantial similarity. (Although there would have been the logical argument of story consistency, that logically the Maelnir never received the ressources which form the basis of the "RU-account", therefore they cannot trade using the "RU-account".
I also see nothing on the Origins-Vindicator that indicates you hauling tons of ressources around, with which you can pay any new ships you're buying.
It gets even weirder when you consider all the ships you collected and detached from (or could not add to) your fleet. It's okay that they get sent to the next station if you don't have the docking space for them, but you can then access them at ANY station. Without them ever having been moved. And where does the re-mobilized ships crew come from?
(It's also a pity you cannot move crew from a ship to the flagship, or vice-versa, if they're the same race, but then that's just one game-mechanic.
OTOH it's nice to not have to recrew ships yourself, a visit of a sufficiently large colony is enough to refill all crews from that race.)
Well, SC2 had lsome logical flaws too, but the ressource system was better. Mqybe just because of the fact that there was only one starbase, as all others in-game are simply locked to you (which I found weird in the case of the Syreen Starbase, their Starbase should've been able to refuel you just as well, once you brought them the required ressources to synthesize sufficient amounts of fuel).
But then, as hormone-laden teen I did not visit Betegeuse because I needed fuel...
BTW: do the Tyworm even appear if you're really far away from Earth and you run out of fuel?
If yes, do they still tow you to Earth? As instantaneous as if you're close to Earth?
Then that could be quite a time-saver when you need to get back to Earth from the upper regions of the starmap...
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Krulle
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In SC2 definitely not.
Hauling that many RU around would've made my ship very inert to engine output.
I mean, I've been stacking more than 100k RU towards the end in one of my first games (been tryin gto defeat the UQ single-handedly while otherwise trying this and that to open new possibilities), and if 1200 RU made a new cruiser, how many tons must've been stacked somewhere?
Same issue in Origins... You would need storage space for those tons of materials...
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