Idea : Paul Honigmann
Glastonbury New Agers camp out at stone circles on your planets, sap the
war-willingness of the population with drugs and happy preaching and
stuff (consequence: need to spend more money to make ships - natives
stop making free engines for your war machines).
Gypsy star caravans.
Ancient wanderers, evicted from star system after star system. Get blamed
for all the thievery around. All your Tritanium goes
missing.
(Actually fair folk are jolly nice people if you actually talk
to them!)
Lots of contraband appears in your star system though. And
everyone is happy because there are scapegoats around.
Hey...
star-scapegoats. See, it all goes together. Cosmic, man. Now git orf moi
land!
Sounds like a limited ship list "mini-race" idea,
increased happiness
factor,
loss of materials
reduced native "freebie"
weapons/engines/etc?
ideas for "the blame factor"???
Perhaps the ship list is the space equivalent of VW capmers, old buses,
Transit Vans (vivid colour patterns), gypsy caravans, etc.
These are,
in fact, the ships that call at "public space ports" and constitute the
low-rent private sector that is only dealt with in abstract in VGAP4.
Perhaps this last "fact" will sell it in NG-land. Public space ports exist,
something must be using them.
<new idea posted from this = Sunday Drivers>
<GREG> < xxx>
doesn't fit within DP frame work. Also note, other races can only have
custom structures they can natively build.