Awesome Characters thread.

Distant Worlds is a vast, pausable real-time, 4X space strategy game which models a "living galaxy" with incredible options for replayability and customizability. Experience the full depth and detail of large turn-based strategy games, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game. Now greatly enhanced with the new Universe release, which includes all four previous releases as well as the new Universe expansion!

Moderators: elliotg, Icemania

User avatar
Grotius
Posts: 5842
Joined: Fri Oct 18, 2002 5:34 pm
Location: The Imperial Palace.

RE: Awesome Characters thread.

Post by Grotius »

@ ehsumrell1, I love your Spock. This game needs Vulcans. :) Too bad about that whole intellectual-property-licensing thing. :P
Ashbery, your Than Bendu was good...but check this one out
Wait, multiple Than Bendus? This can mean only one thing: matter and anti-matter are about to collide! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
Image
User avatar
Howard Mitchell
Posts: 449
Joined: Mon Jun 03, 2002 11:41 am
Location: Blighty

RE: Awesome Characters thread.

Post by Howard Mitchell »

My best ambassador, and one of only two, despite the year being 2800. She's been present from the start of the game.



Image
Attachments
Ambassador.jpg
Ambassador.jpg (23.9 KiB) Viewed 438 times
While the battles the British fight may differ in the widest possible ways, they invariably have two common characteristics – they are always fought uphill and always at the junction of two or more map sheets.

General Sir William Slim
User avatar
Grisha
Posts: 274
Joined: Thu May 11, 2000 4:00 pm
Location: Seattle

RE: Awesome Characters thread.

Post by Grisha »

GC,
Zacha Raktan shows that even in this game the road to Hell is paved with good intentions [;)]
Best regards,
Greg Guerrero
User avatar
Grotius
Posts: 5842
Joined: Fri Oct 18, 2002 5:34 pm
Location: The Imperial Palace.

RE: Awesome Characters thread.

Post by Grotius »

I'd be curious to see some *bad* characters, either here or in a separate thread. Send in the clowns!
Image
User avatar
Gelatinous Cube
Posts: 696
Joined: Wed Oct 26, 2011 2:34 am

RE: Awesome Characters thread.

Post by Gelatinous Cube »

ORIGINAL: Grisha

GC,
Zacha Raktan shows that even in this game the road to Hell is paved with good intentions [;)]

I know, right? This game is so full of stories and life that sometimes i'll just put the whole thing on .25 speed and watch stuff. It reminds me of playing with action figures as a kid.
User avatar
Nedrear
Posts: 702
Joined: Sat Oct 29, 2011 12:43 pm

RE: Awesome Characters thread.

Post by Nedrear »

ORIGINAL: Grotius

I'd be curious to see some *bad* characters, either here or in a separate thread. Send in the clowns!

I thought my Ambassador was something... well more or less funny. Since my mod deals with realistic and mixed personalities, defying the always good AI leaders building up themselves, I will get something worse soon.
One Thread To Guide Them All

"Nothing incorporeal wields such power as a word. Though it is the weapon of the smart and cunning it alas needs the same to prevail."
Cauldyth
Posts: 1236
Joined: Sun Jun 27, 2010 1:24 am

RE: Awesome Characters thread.

Post by Cauldyth »

Well, I don't think mods should count. After all, I could make a mod which intentionally makes ridiculously good and ridiculously bad characters.

Vanilla Legends only! [:)]
User avatar
Nedrear
Posts: 702
Joined: Sat Oct 29, 2011 12:43 pm

RE: Awesome Characters thread.

Post by Nedrear »

ORIGINAL: Cauldyth

Vanilla Legends only! [:)]

Then you can smoke your "badies" in a pipe. The worst you will see is a 20% minus in one or two traits in summary if the other boni do not apply there. All the other skills will increase in the play time though. In the end he will be another hero of the Legends world with a small wrinkle under his belly... nothing else.

To "grow" badies you would need to park all of them with all your dmeoralizing characters in one place, hoping for them to rot away. That will not happen in a normal game run.
One Thread To Guide Them All

"Nothing incorporeal wields such power as a word. Though it is the weapon of the smart and cunning it alas needs the same to prevail."
Cauldyth
Posts: 1236
Joined: Sun Jun 27, 2010 1:24 am

RE: Awesome Characters thread.

Post by Cauldyth »

ORIGINAL: Nedrear
To "grow" badies you would need to park all of them with all your dmeoralizing characters in one place, hoping for them to rot away.

Hmm, that could be fun to do. [:D]
User avatar
Gelatinous Cube
Posts: 696
Joined: Wed Oct 26, 2011 2:34 am

RE: Awesome Characters thread.

Post by Gelatinous Cube »

On that note, if you ever get an intelligence agent with "Inspiring Presence" then you need to station him on counter-intel at your homeworld! Who cares if he's any good. Bottom line is that he will boost the skills of your Leader, Colony Governer, and local Troop General until the end of time.
User avatar
Nedrear
Posts: 702
Joined: Sat Oct 29, 2011 12:43 pm

RE: Awesome Characters thread.

Post by Nedrear »

ORIGINAL: Gelatinous Cube

...until the end of time.

That's why I wanted a life expectancy nad death rate for the characters on the modders wishlist...
One Thread To Guide Them All

"Nothing incorporeal wields such power as a word. Though it is the weapon of the smart and cunning it alas needs the same to prevail."
User avatar
ehsumrell1
Posts: 2529
Joined: Tue Aug 17, 2010 7:53 am
Location: The Briar Patch Nebula
Contact:

RE: Awesome Characters thread.

Post by ehsumrell1 »

Agreed G Cube!

....and Nedrear, in case you didn't know, Elliot DOES have the characters with a
limited 'life span' of sorts. Here is some information I have found out during testing.

While the exact age of a character is not tracked, the time of service is tracked. Most characters will not serve indefinitely. Characters that are not lost to combat or other events may retire or pass away due to old age during the game. Characters may also be lost due to invasions, planetary bombardment, ship destruction, space travel mishaps, assassination, natural disasters, etc.

Understand that also, the duration of characters can be tweaked/modded in the races.txt file for
each character category. Hope this helps clear things! [:)]
Shields are useless in "The Briar Patch"...
User avatar
tjhkkr
Posts: 2431
Joined: Wed Jun 02, 2010 11:15 pm
Contact:

RE: Awesome Characters thread.

Post by tjhkkr »

Here is one of my characters... Pink Five: a rebel pilot... she could not hit the broadside of a war.
Leave it to me to get a character like this...

Image
Attachments
imagesCA7TO6V0.jpg
imagesCA7TO6V0.jpg (9.23 KiB) Viewed 444 times
Remember that the evil which is now in the world will become yet more powerful, and that it is not evil which conquers evil, but only love -- Olga Romanov.
User avatar
RaffleSnaffle
Posts: 100
Joined: Sat Feb 12, 2011 8:53 pm

RE: Awesome Characters thread.

Post by RaffleSnaffle »

ORIGINAL: tjhkkr

Here is one of my characters... Pink Five: a rebel pilot... she could not hit the broadside of a war.
Leave it to me to get a character like this...

Image

I had a leader for the boskara who was so bad he sent my home colony into revolt!

Worst thing was I had JUST fired my last horrible leader so this new derpface was untouchable for the time being...
User avatar
Gelatinous Cube
Posts: 696
Joined: Wed Oct 26, 2011 2:34 am

RE: Awesome Characters thread.

Post by Gelatinous Cube »

ORIGINAL: ehsumrell1

Agreed G Cube!

....and Nedrear, in case you didn't know, Elliot DOES have the characters with a
limited 'life span' of sorts. Here is some information I have found out during testing.

While the exact age of a character is not tracked, the time of service is tracked. Most characters will not serve indefinitely. Characters that are not lost to combat or other events may retire or pass away due to old age during the game. Characters may also be lost due to invasions, planetary bombardment, ship destruction, space travel mishaps, assassination, natural disasters, etc.

Understand that also, the duration of characters can be tweaked/modded in the races.txt file for
each character category. Hope this helps clear things! [:)]

I did not notice this. Thanks!
User avatar
Grotius
Posts: 5842
Joined: Fri Oct 18, 2002 5:34 pm
Location: The Imperial Palace.

RE: Awesome Characters thread.

Post by Grotius »

I had a leader for the boskara who was so bad he sent my home colony into revolt!

Got a screenshot by any chance? I'd love to see some awesomely bad leaders, lol. :)
Image
User avatar
2guncohen
Posts: 401
Joined: Fri Apr 09, 2010 4:28 pm
Location: Belguim

RE: Awesome Characters thread.

Post by 2guncohen »

Image

This is very funny [:D]
User avatar
Gelatinous Cube
Posts: 696
Joined: Wed Oct 26, 2011 2:34 am

RE: Awesome Characters thread.

Post by Gelatinous Cube »

I hope he gets some good traits, too. He turned out to be a pretty wicked Troop General.

Deck Chief Tyrol, too.
MaxyGamer
Posts: 76
Joined: Tue Aug 24, 2010 4:33 am

RE: Awesome Characters thread.

Post by MaxyGamer »

Saul -5% to all existing skills. [:D][:D]
User avatar
Ares106
Posts: 86
Joined: Sat Jan 29, 2011 8:11 pm

RE: Awesome Characters thread.

Post by Ares106 »

Heres a pretty cool spy. [:@]

I suppose the first thing they taught him in spy school is that in order to camouflage himself within another empire's colony he needs to display as much hatred disdain towards the race his is infiltrating as possible.

What a pity it doesn't look like he is going to make it out of Securan Space alive...

Image
Attachments
Sabri.jpg
Sabri.jpg (46.79 KiB) Viewed 438 times
Post Reply

Return to “Distant Worlds 1 Series”