Enslavement,

Edited by RauLeCreuset on 2012-02-29

What is this about the 13th amendment....pfft...the USA got nuked to oblivion in 2156 along with China, Russia and Canada. Didn`t you all know the GC storyline follows on from the Fallout Universe, thus enslavement and slaves are a perfectly viable source of income and labor.

Now on topic:

A guard with a tax miner or twowould be able to plunder ALL their core worlds and live off of the OP income via slaves, making them a 10 planet race that could build to 400 mill PR and fight there with zero income of their own. Same goes for Maru and Collective

The problem with certain races being able to enslave is the upkeep... for example, a guard with just 1 tax miner would be able to build up to extremely high amounts.... but with other races, sure, an enslaved tax miner is nice, but its not giving u what for your race is a completely OP income.

Im sorry but the 13th amendment abolished slavery.

I always thought instead of gaining cash, you should be able to gain limited amounts of ships. ie - you enslave a Marauder, now in your build list you can build a certain % of pikes. Or if you enslaved a terran, and were terran yourself you should be able to build double stacks. ie - thor in 2nd and in 8th stack.

I don`t know about the time limit idea. There is no real incentive to enslave anyone if it ends on it`s own.

I think it should be either all races can be enslaved or no races should be able to be enslaved. Of course a change like that will never happen for either extreme.

If someone is clearly abusing it for instance drop in PR enslave a few people build up to 120 mil and then VM for a week. They should definitely lose their slaves. I don`t really think it`s fair to have to lose slaves if you are forced to VM for a legit reason.

Unless you are Tax Miner or Com Terran there is no reason to even care if you are enslaved. I guess you lose the ability to attack your master, but unless they are doing a UW it can be easily gotten over. If they have reinforcements on it can even be beneficial to be enslaved. I would change it so that all empires would be effected by enslavement. Lose 15% of all production as tribute that the slave master can collect, not just per turn credit income. Of course this would never happen either due to lazy game owners, and I doubt there would be much support for this change anyways.

I think maybe he meant income wise, you`re not able to be a 500m pr empire within the first 2 months. Maybe the third month, but not the first two :)

"Plus, a new source of income for a race that is already hard to play"

hahhah you think guardian is hard to play

rofl

1) or be like the romans, and enslave forever <3
2) can`t, the enslavement is hard coded and it can`t be open up to specific races that currently don`t allow it
3) thought this was already in place, where you just have to contact an admin if your enslaver goes into vm.