Empires Of Planets 4

The Moties

Race Attributes

High population growth rate
Moties breed on ships & even in pods (when not in cryo-freeze), at the same rates as on bases
Motie colonists, crew & troops all breed at the same high rate
Motie assault units can also breed but have their own unique rules
Start with a large food stockpile (100,000 food)
Moties on ships & in pods eat food (from ships cargo)
Pod speed of zero (Exotic tech cannot increase this speed)
Collapse of tech capabilities & population levels occurs regularly enough to be accepted by Moties, as part of their natural cycle of life
All Motie ship designs are limited to a top speed of 1LY in normal space
Motie home-world has a natural Grav-field effect, which prevents the use of hyperdrives within 50LY
Motie ships that make a hyperspace jump & go into combat in the same turn, lose all Attack & Evasive bonuses
Extremely skilled engineers can make fundamental changes to a ships design every turn (Result – the ship can completely change design from one turn to the next – NB. this is limited by both tech & available minerals)
Very dangerous Ground Troops
Motie assault units are specialised castes ( & also need to eat food wherever they are)
When a HG boards a ship, an assault pod will be created (docked to the ship) to house their personal attendants
Each HG will be accompanied by 1 Doctor, 100 Troops, 3 Fyunch<click!>, 50 crew & 20 Miniatures
Captured alien ships will be re-engineered into Motie designs, at the end of the turn after they are captured

Unique Units

Fyunch<click!> : Trained mediators. They possess the ability to avert conflicts, settle disputes and command potentially planet-wide resources on behalf of their Masters. When one or more is docked to a ship, in a pod, that ship may negotiate it’s way out of combat 50% of the time (only works if ship not set to attack enemies). Occasionally one will go Crazy Eddie and cause a lot more damage than anyone could possibly anticipate, whilst still having the best of intentions (see chance of CRAZY EDDY!). These are a hybrid of crew (Browns) & HG (Whites).The number of new Fyunch<click!> created is the total number of Browns & Whites on a base or ship (including guests & pods), multiplied by 25%. NB. Both crew & HG must be present on the same base or ship, to breed Fyunch<click!>.

Miniatures: These useful pets are trained to assist with repairs. For each Miniature present, one less repair unit is needed to conduct repairs to a system. They breed twice as fast as the rest of the Motie race, but only eat half as much food. An assault pod containing miniatures can attach itself to an enemy ship, by creating an additional temporary pod slot, so that even ships without a pod capacity can be infected. On an enemy ship, the Miniatures will conceal their presence and the pod will not be visible to that race’s controller. Any ship with Miniatures aboard gains +100 Attack bonus, +100 Evasive bonus and the ability to repair any amount of damage, in a single turn. When docked to an enemy ship, if the pod holding the miniatures is full, they will attempt to take over the ship in a boarding action.

Doctors : Intuitive healers. Each Doctor can prevent up to 100 casualties per turn – but only on the base they’re on, or the ship their pod is attached to. Please note that Doctors can also keep alive members of other races, who would otherwise be counted as casualties (this can include members of enemy boarding parties), who would instead become prisoners. Doctors are harder to breed than most Motie castes - they can only be bred from other Doctors at a rate of approx 2.5%.

Missing Base Buildings

Training Center (Not even if captured)
Cities (Not even if captured)
Raid Shelters
Public Spaceport (Not even if captured)
Assault Plant (assault units cannot be bought under any circumstances, therefore Moties cannot have Assault plants even if captured)
Government center ( Not even if captured - Moties have no centralised Government)
Base Shield
Undercities

Special Base Buildings

Museums: This structure is intended to help preserve Motie technology after a civilisation collapse. A single museum can allow the race to recover a single level of one tech, for free, each turn (chosen at random). But this can only be a type of tech, which has been attained previously. NB - No Tech levels can be recovered until the turn after a collapse has finished. These structures are deliberately placed in strategically unimportant areas to help keep them safe. The chance of a Museum being destroyed in an attack is reduced by 90%. Up to 5 per planet – Cost 1000MC & 500S – Tech 1.

White Fortress: Each fortress provides a protected environment, where the projects under that HG’s (White) jurisdiction, can be worked on in safety. For every fortress, a base gains 100MC from industrial activity and the central bank gains 100GC. In the event of a collapse, the fortress will allow 1 HG (White), 2 Doctors, 3 Fyunch<click!> (Brown & Whites), 20crew (Browns), 1000 colonists (all other Motie castes), 1000 food & 100 troops (Warriors) to survive. You cannot own more White Fortresses than you have HG on that base. Up to 10,000 per planet - Cost 100MC & 50S – Tech 1.

Ship Attributes

Brown Engineers(crew) will attempt to alter a ship & it’s components every turn, to the maximum current tech - if resources allow
Ships are altered to the highest possible tech design of their type, limited by the current tech level
Components are upgraded to the highest tech component allowed, again limited by current tech level
Command code “NUN” prevents the crew attempting to increase the tech of hull or components - NB. If a collapse occurs, lost tech levels will still result in the ship & components being reduced to the current tech limits
Moties have 4 general types of ship, which are Miners, Warriors, Trojans & Masters
Miners find & gather minerals from space dust, planetary rings or harvested from planets, asteroids & comets
Warrior ships are specialised combat ships – usually fast, deadly & numerous
Trojans are larger asteroids/comets used as habitats & mined for resources
Building a Trojan ship/colony is dependent on finding a suitable asteroid or comet
Each turn a maximum number of Trojan candidates found, should be shown in players’ messages
Each Miner ship has a % chance of finding a Trojan candidate, equal to 20 divided by the current turn number
Candidates should be common & plentiful in the early part of the game, but these resources should dwindle
The number of potential candidates in a turn, gives the maximum number of Trojan class ships, which can be built
Master ships are larger, more robust capital ships – used to transport Masters in safety (usually escorted by many warrior ships)
Each Master ship counts as an additional White Fortress (gives 100mc income on the ship & 100gc to the Central bank)
Crazy Eddy ships are unconventional designs, which can only be made as an attempt to prevent collapse

Ship Special Devices

Ship Super Weapons

Playing As

An explanatory note.

Collapse

See separate pages for potential collapse mechanisms.

Playing Against

Natural Enemies