Phase Shifting (a defence against the superweapon)
Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:43 am
Okay, we all know from the new developments thread that the ascended superweapon blows your account away. My suggestion is, make it even more powerful. Make it totally untrain every single planet (even the resources), destroy every weapon, and basically pwn life.
On the flipside, add a way for us to defend ourselves against it. The idea is taken from the show, when some ascended beings created devices to shift their research or technology out of phase (into another dimension) so the other ascended beings can't see it/touch it.
So, why not give the ability to send weapons and planets out of phase, at a cost of course. In order that people don't just keep massive out of phase accounts in case they get super weaponed, have everything you shift out of phase cost perhaps, 3 or 5 or 10 times what it costed to make to shift it out of phase. And then, anything out of phase just doesn't count for anything, resouces planets don't gain DMU, nothing counts for rank, power, etc.
Then, if the superweapon is used on you, you can shift whatever is out of phase back into phase and here you have something left of your account. It would really be an investment for people, if they aren't expecting to get hit with the superweapon, they are losing a lot of productivity by having much of anything out of phase. Then again, it gives us the ability to defend against the superweapon if we so choose.
On the flipside, add a way for us to defend ourselves against it. The idea is taken from the show, when some ascended beings created devices to shift their research or technology out of phase (into another dimension) so the other ascended beings can't see it/touch it.
So, why not give the ability to send weapons and planets out of phase, at a cost of course. In order that people don't just keep massive out of phase accounts in case they get super weaponed, have everything you shift out of phase cost perhaps, 3 or 5 or 10 times what it costed to make to shift it out of phase. And then, anything out of phase just doesn't count for anything, resouces planets don't gain DMU, nothing counts for rank, power, etc.
Then, if the superweapon is used on you, you can shift whatever is out of phase back into phase and here you have something left of your account. It would really be an investment for people, if they aren't expecting to get hit with the superweapon, they are losing a lot of productivity by having much of anything out of phase. Then again, it gives us the ability to defend against the superweapon if we so choose.
