Krytos Virus.

[t78]

I was listening to your Bacta War playthrough Corey, and I had an idea with the Krytos Virus. Instead of getting bonuses from researching a cure, what if you had a series of cures to research (costing money that could otherwise be sent to units), and if you don't research each one in time, an NR world declares neutrality. You can't seize it as it is not selectable (like Byss in Shadow Hand) and trying to invade yields a 'we're not like the empire!'  message from Mon Mothma. Thus you lose money, Pop cap, and territory. Only researching the Krytos cure prevents this, meaning you have to balance research money with funds for your forces.

On the Ir side (and maybe Zinj), you can research a counter cure... which requires a small amount of money, but mainly infantry units (serving as test subjects for control groups). Thus with this you put infantry on the world where the counter cure is being researched, and they get taken away. This one is more of a balancing act between money and pop cap. (and sacrificing disciplined expendable stormtroopers shows how eeeeeevil Isard is!)

Thoughts?

[Lord Xizer]

I was listening to your Bacta War playthrough Corey, and I had an idea with the Krytos Virus. Instead of getting bonuses from researching a cure, what if you had a series of cures to research (costing money that could otherwise be sent to units), and if you don't research each one in time, an NR world declares neutrality. You can't seize it as it is not selectable (like Byss in Shadow Hand) and trying to invade yields a 'we're not like the empire!'  message from Mon Mothma. Thus you lose money, Pop cap, and territory. Only researching the Krytos cure prevents this, meaning you have to balance research money with funds for your forces.

On the Ir side (and maybe Zinj), you can research a counter cure... which requires a small amount of money, but mainly infantry units (serving as test subjects for control groups). Thus with this you put infantry on the world where the counter cure is being researched, and they get taken away. This one is more of a balancing act between money and pop cap. (and sacrificing disciplined expendable stormtroopers shows how eeeeeevil Isard is!)

Thoughts?

This actually sounds very intriguing if it could be implemented

[Corey]

For the first part there's actually 3 steps at different worlds to research it, and some other story events tied to those, but you'll see some of that coming up in the playthrough. However:

if you don't research each one in time, an NR world declares neutrality. You can't seize it as it is not selectable (like Byss in Shadow Hand) and trying to invade yields a 'we're not like the empire!'  message from Mon Mothma.

It's a possibility, but there can be a lot of potential issues with that. For one thing, randomizing a defection can cause some weirdness, it's already been hard enough handling the fallout from swaps like that under very controlled circumstances, so having something where we aren't setting the exact criteria for it might get really messy.

On the Ir side (and maybe Zinj), you can research a counter cure... which requires a small amount of money, but mainly infantry units (serving as test subjects for control groups). Thus with this you put infantry on the world where the counter cure is being researched, and they get taken away. This one is more of a balancing act between money and pop cap. (and sacrificing disciplined expendable stormtroopers shows how eeeeeevil Isard is!)

I don't know whether we'd actually be implementing any sort of major plot on the IR side in this GC to begin with, but trying to make a set of missions like that contingent on AI actions would be even messier (doing stuff after they research a cure). The NR AI isn't going through missions the NR player would be.