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VB6 Aurora => VB6 Mechanics => Topic started by: aPPle on July 05, 2012, 05:47:05 PM

Title: Custom Race
Post by: aPPle on July 05, 2012, 05:47:05 PM

i just did the tutorial on making a custom race that is on the wiki.  i have my race but i want them to breath something besides oxygen.  how would i do that?

Title: Re: Custom Race
Post by: Person012345 on July 05, 2012, 06:35:27 PM

Find a methane world that meets the requirements.

Title: Re: Custom Race
Post by: Erik L on July 05, 2012, 07:46:39 PM

Are player races able to breathe anything other than O2?

Title: Re: Custom Race
Post by: Person012345 on July 05, 2012, 08:16:48 PM

Quote from: Erik Luken on July 05, 2012, 07:46:39 PM

Are player races able to breathe anything other than O2?

Methane

Title: Re: Custom Race
Post by: Redshirt on July 06, 2012, 12:53:58 PM

Yep. Playing around with a custom methane-breathing hive-mind race right now with their homeworld in a nebula. Fun tech lines- they focus heavily on armor and are virtually ignoring all missile/anti-missile tech. They'll probably be in trouble when they run into an NPR that uses missiles, but I also figure being born in the nebula makes them galactic agoraphobics- they much prefer remaining in systems inside the cloud.

Anyway, there's (I think) slightly fewer colonizable planets with a methane atmosphere than an oxygen one, so if you go this route, concentrate on terraforming or get used to not having a lot of colonies.

Title: Re: Custom Race
Post by: aPPle on July 06, 2012, 05:42:02 PM

so no other gasses just methane or oxygen?

Title: Re: Custom Race
Post by: Person012345 on July 06, 2012, 09:55:02 PM

For now.

Title: Re: Custom Race
Post by: Mel Vixen on July 07, 2012, 12:38:14 PM

Didnt chlorine work too?

Title: Re: Custom Race
Post by: Shininglight on July 07, 2012, 12:51:12 PM

i remember reading somewhere that methane is one of the only gasses as reactive as o2.