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So...should my new guy have 54k gold in treasure, or what?

"Alex, you are BESMIRCHING THE FAIR LADY. This is UNNACCEPTABLE." Jared says, still in the same tone of voice as a few minuites ago. And volume. "I shall have to challenge you to face me in THE RING OF HONOR should this continue. And then the Colliseum. And THEN THE STADIUM. Break for lunch, then ON TO THE DEATHMATCH PIT!"

Angel wonders if there's a class telling you which god(s) to pray to to avoid running into people like this guy.

She also wonders if the lecture or orientation or whatever is ever going to start.

((No! Target the number!))

Even if we take what you claim as all that's needed as actually all that's needed, a claim which I doubt, that still requires no fewer than four gods to collaborate on a single ecosystem. Worms, grass, deer, wolves; any three without the other are doomed.

And, again, I disagree with both the idea that only four species are needed and the idea that making players create every little species that exists makes the game better. You want to restrict the species available for "free" to the bare minimum--that would be excellent! You want to say that any creature with a vaguely interesting physical trait or feature has to be made by a player--fine with me. You want to say that every ecological niche is devastatingly empty until one player spends the time and effort to fill it, regardless of how "interesting" it is? That, Irony, is where my problem comes in. Especially since without those species, all the effort one spends will be wasted.

And what does it bring to the game if every single species is novel, is player-created? None. Whatsoever. The worms, the rats, the flies, the bushes and shrubs, they will be created and then forgotten, because stories about worms, rats, flies, bushes, and shrubs are boring. People care about the humans and elves, the dragons and giants, the sphinxes and gremlins. They want to make the interesting things, and don't care so much for the rest.

So tell me: What does that game design choice add to the game?

Then clearly we have different recollections of the exact same words.

So, we do have to make every little critter and every single plant that needs to exist if we don't want ecosystems to collapse?

Clean wound as best as we can. Clean the rest of self as best as we can as a second priority.

Listen carefully.

Cool. Mind if I suggest some sort of "Ship Status" spoiler for when the ships are so different? It could describe the systems, their capabilities, and their damage.

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"Ow! ...Huh. My hand's gone. I should probably be concerned about that."

Wait behind the other starboard cannon and fire if the enemy is in sight. Wonder if I could get a reasonably-priced prosthetic arm somewhere.

...Why? Blockading doors with paperwork seems more humane.