Well Ive got my girlfriend coming down this weekend, so I doubt I'll get any more done till monday. I always find it hard to get the motivation to work on the flicks. Even though Open FX is 10 times faster than my old program I want it to be finished already!
Toying with the idea of making the corvette not stealth, and making a stealth oneman shuttles unit. would be a good unit as they could use thier sneak attack to make sure they fight against weakend opponents, and make the most of the extra HP.
Have to try it in testing. I think I'll make one of the UUs a stealth corvette. would be good for a civ I'm thinking up for asia... the Golden Dragon Trading Kombinate.
The western born mongolian/chinese chairman of the GDTK (a group of western companies using cheap chinese labour to produce goods for sale in the west) makes a close alliance with the communist rulership of the country, promising exclusive trading agreements in exchange for cheap, compliant labour (labour unions are illigal in comunist countries). The chairman and his communist allies have a disagreement, the communists becoming suspisious of the GDTKs motives, and greedy for more lucrative deals with the west.
The chairman uses his newly evolved space program to capture the chinese National Missile Deffence Laser System and the giant "goliath" solar collector satelites (which are designed to beam microwave energy to the cities of china and mongolia.
Using the NMDLS to protect himself against the chinese nuclear weapons launched at the satelites, and using the satelites themselves as a threat (Bejing is partly roasted by the weapons after the chinese try to test the resolve of the GDTK).
The chairman begins his protracted blackmail of the country, with china now under his almost complete control. Eventualy the country (and much surrounding area) is converted to run as a giant comercial/feudal enterprise with the head of GDTK acting as director/emperor. The stealth corvette would make a great UU for this civ.
Other civs I'm thinking of;
The Americano Trading organization, like the GDTK a commerical organisation whose zone of control reaches from austrialia through south, central and north america up to canada.
The United Federal States of Europe.
The St Pauls compact, a group of small Christian counties, many african, lead by the pope in a mission to spread christianity through space and disprove the existance of aliens, and so prove the uniquness of mankind. In fact they have many, some time self contradictory aims, based upon many individual interpretations of christianity.
The Nation OF Islam, a religious group funded by the last of the middle eastern oil reserves and stretching from north africa through pakistan (partly destroyed during its ruinous partly nuclear conflict with india) and into south east asia. Their main aim is the colonization of mars, and its tranformation in to a new Mecca, the center of all trade in the SOL system.
The New Futurists a bizare group from no particular region or ideology, may have several different names, but embraces all new technology in an atempt to trancent traditional human values. They often originate from highly placed citizens of other civs, who become disenchanted by earth and the highly repressive methods needed to keep the population in line.