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VB6 Aurora => Aurora Chat => Topic started by: sloanjh on April 23, 2011, 07:13:14 PM

Title: Ugly Americans
Post by: sloanjh on April 23, 2011, 07:13:14 PM

I was looking at the diplomacy rules just now, and that reminded me that my race's attitude towards other races has its Xenophobia sutracted off every year.  So I thought I'd go look at my Xenophobia rating.  Here's what I found:

Theme: US
Xenophobia: 90
Diplomacy: 89
Translation Skill: -27
...

Who said ugly americans are a cliche???  :)

Leaving the Diplomacy rating aside (which I don't think does anything anyway), I guess this explains why I keep getting bad communication rolls and have yet to have a positive attitude towards an alien race!

John

PS - Disclaimer:  I'm not trying to open discussion about real-life americans here - it's just a cute phrase for the way the dice seemed stacked against me in this game. :)

Title: Re: Ugly Americans
Post by: Thiosk on April 23, 2011, 09:21:19 PM

Its not that the spacefaring americans are ugly, its just that aliens inexplicably don't appreciate being liberated by gigatons of high explosive and energy emitters.

I like to free the smeg out of some aliens.

Title: Re: Ugly Americans
Post by: sloanjh on April 24, 2011, 02:06:59 AM

Ah: "Diplomacy through superior firepower" - that's why the diplomacy rating was so high! :)

John

Title: Re: Ugly Americans
Post by: Tarran on April 24, 2011, 03:19:55 AM

I also bet that that's the reason Translation Skill rating is so low: When they say we say "We come in peace" they really mean "We are going to bomb you back to the stone age". :P