It would be cool if Media coverage can be used to turn a military defeat into a cultural victory or a Military victory into an even bigger victory. For example:

If you have enough points in "Media Spin" you can chose to make the loss of a planet look like the Alamo, and your people will be whipped into a patriotic frenzy increasing allegiance (and thus income) for a while, and making more people in nearby planets volunteer for the planets militia, making it harder to invade, and making tactical structer cheaper around nearby planets since the people would want to make it easier for you to defend them. To balance this you could make it so that you could only glorify a defeat every so often, or make it so that if you don't go back on the offensive, and take back that planet (and maybe another one) soon, your people will see you as a weak, incompetent leader (turning their sensationalism against you) This would lower their allegiance to lower than it was before the loss of the planet.

Then you could have "Offensive Media" which would affect how other empires view yours and vice versa (putting it higher on the tech tree). So if we take the same situation where you've lost a planet; the enemy, if they have enough points in offensive media, could start a propaganda campaign, where they constantly tell the people that you suck as a leader and that you can't defend them so they should rebel. Of course (read: for balancing purposes) your people wouldn't really listen at first since there are setbacks and defeats in war, but if the enemy captures say three contiguous planets in a row you suffer an allegiance penalty. This can be turned against the enemy by breaking their (military) offensive. This would prove to your people that you are there to protect them, giving you a permanent allegiance bonus and making it harder for another propaganda campaign to be successful.


Of course this whole media system could be completely circumvented by having a military so strong that the bonuses and penalties wouldn't make a difference. This system is essentially like taking out a loan. If you think that you can break an offensive, than the media spin power could give you that extra boost to make that happen, as well as give you some extra cash, but if your fleet is on the other side of the galaxy, and you left a weak spot open. Then the power can only hurt you. Same with the propaganda campaign, if you take a planet, but know that the enemy's fleet is just a jump away, using the propganda campaign power would not be a good idea.


Man, that was a lot longer than I thought it would be

What no one else with any good ideas?

For that Advent tech maybe "One with Nature" The Robotic Tank one is pretty good (Mini-Bolos!!!) For the vasari I like the nano weapons but maybe change it to Nano Warfare. Shock Troops shoulkd aslo come after Gene- Tailoring.

Anyway some pretty good stuff. I'm goign to need to get started on tha tlist now  Thanks Homefleet. 

I don't know but I want to see more of the plannet like the cities

Well Powered Armor are not simply "robots" there suits of armor packed to the brim with artifical muscles and the like. Remeber you cant see the fighting these are just buffs that are represented by amount of troops and how fast the clock is moving and how they would react to certain criteria.

So for the T.E.C. we give them Tech such as Robotic Wartanks,Powered Armor, Media Coverage that gives a bonus to Culture rate(Think like those guys from Starship Troopers.) Media Censorship. Mass Conscription.

The Advent they'll have tech that reflects there psychic abilties. And some nifty bonuses.

The Vasari will dabble in Genetic Enginnering, Fear based propganda to make there soldiers fight harder, Nano Warfare related stuff.

Hmmmm. What else?

You read Bolo?

Do you any other ideals to add?

I got no other ideas for the night maybe tomorrow.

Oh yes and there very good. Sadly you can only get the old books from Amazon. But they carry a few at Barnes and Noble. They are very good reads.

Ahhhh. If they added Bolo units then they could fight dirtside and shoot up orbiting ships. It would be freaking sweet.

Well, if we can do it the way everybody wants to, invasion will be the mainstay of the battlefleet gothic mod, seeing as it is the warhammer 40k universe. We'll be using a rather figety version that makes heavy use of supply lines, as it'll be a more tactically oriented mod. Planets will have orbital troop training facilities, which can fill transport ships with troops. Infrastructure will be rebranded to defenses, and represent the garrison strength. Landing troops will erode the defenses until the planet is captured (hopefully no need to recolonize and the existing troops can be used to immediately give the victor some defenses). Putting troops on your transports will drain the planet's defenses, however, so you have to balance your eagerness to expand with a defense, and this also makes siege frigate equivalents cheap to build but still worth protecting. I think it should prove very interesting and suit the focus our mod has on ship battles. If you have any ideas on this, feel free to mention them on our thread, otherwise, this is just one way of doing things that the mod team likes and I think deserves mention. However, capitol ships can still bombard effectively, so both are options.

wait how could you call this game sins if planet capturing didn't involve genocide?

but yeah, this could be very interesting... a d-day (in space!) of troop ships dropping in and starting a ground war...
if planets were divided into provinces, this would make even more sense, as capship/purges could bomb ememy strong holds on your planet (and subterfuge on the vasari capship would also make more sense)... if all else fails just turn the novalith around (laughs out loud)

this seems kind of exploitive, but sins is all about exploiting stuff.

Tick Tock.(Bump)

I would assume you would attempt checking out the feasibility of features before you add them to your mod. Do you even have a scripter to check this against?