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[edit] Special
[edit] First 5 Turns
Since the game has to take into account different host settings whereas the players may not start with a homeworld; rather, a bunch a ships only to colonize with, the Crystals have the HD Delta of any planet that they have more than 10,000 colonists on changed to 5 and the HD stress increased by 200 if it is less than 300. Note: This will change the planet if you create a new base there by turn 5.
[edit] Natives
- Crystals are not attacked by Amorphous Worms natives that reside on a planet.
- Siliconoid natives produce free ordnance for Crystals. Every 50 Siliconoids on a Crystal owned planet will produce 1 new ordnance unit per turn.
- Siliconoid natives join Crystal bases faster than normal. Formula: (((PSI * 3) / 500) * 100)%
[edit] Immunity
[edit] Growth
Crystals only grow only on very hot planets:
| Climate | Growth Mod.
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| 0 - 94
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| 95 - 98
| 50%
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| 99 - 100
| 100%
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[edit] Special
- Crystal ship hulls cannot be produced by non-Crystal races. Crystal ship hull plans cannot be owned by non-Crystal races.
- Crystals cannot build alien hulls from hull plans.
- Crystal are the only race that can have Solorian hull without taking damage every turn. The reverse is not true, Solorian take damage when owning a Crystal hull. (tested Host 211)
- The shielding on their ships takes half damage from energy weapons, but triple damage from ordnance based weapons. The act of absorbing energy weapons on Crystal shields helps charge the ship's weapons.
- When a Boarding Laser is used against a Crystal, no damage will be done to the hull and no personnel will be killed by the boarding laser. However it will still enable the attacker to board the ship.
- Immune to the small weapon Disrupter "extra kill bonus".
- Any Crystal-owned ships cannot be affected by Web Minefields (by passing through them or having them detonated upon them). This includes Crystal-owned alien hulls, and enemy Crystals. Crystal ships that have been captured by non-Crystal players are not immune to webs in any way.
[edit] Ship Devices
Crystal ships include the following ship devices:
[edit] Starting Ships
[edit] Resources On Starting Ships
| Count | Hull | Personnel | Resources
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| Crew | Col. | Troops | HG | MC | Supplies | Food | Med | Repair | Ord | Fuel
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| 3 | Jade Class Support Ship | 250 | 500 | 150 | - | 30 | 1200 | 600 | 300 | 3333 | 5000 | 1250
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| 1 | Ruby Class Cruiser | 540 | 1000 | 300 | - | 31 | 120 | 60 | 30 | 167 | 1500 | 190
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[edit] Fighters
| C1 Sugar
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| Space Combat
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| Quickness
| 100
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| Attack
| 30
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| Evasive
| 30
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| Armor
| 0
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| Exposed Sys
| 4
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| Beam
| Missile
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| Power
| 10
| 0
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| Accuracy
| 45
| 0
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| Range
| 70
| 0
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| Generator
| 5
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| Battery
| 50
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| Ord
| -
| 0
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| C2 Salt
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| Space Combat
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| Quickness
| 50
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| Attack
| 10
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| Evasive
| 10
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| Armor
| 0
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| Exposed Sys
| 10
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| Beam
| Missile
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| Power
| 10
| 10
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| Accuracy
| 30
| 90
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| Range
| 70
| 150
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| Generator
| 4
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| Battery
| 150
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| Ord
| -
| 20
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| C3 Alum Spark
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| Space Combat
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| Quickness
| 100
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| Attack
| 30
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| Evasive
| 30
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| Armor
| 0
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| Exposed Sys
| 5
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| Beam
| Missile
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| Power
| 5
| 150
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| Accuracy
| 45
| 90
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| Range
| 80
| 200
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| Generator
| 4
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| Battery
| 150
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| Ord
| -
| 5
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[edit] Assault Craft
[edit] Special Buildings
 | Infernorator
Converts one hyperdimensional stress into 20 climate points to heat the planet if the climate is less than 90. This functions the same as the ship device: Crystal Inferno Device. Only 1 Infernorator will function at a base. Even when your starting homeworld has 100 Infernorators, only the first one will function and heat up the planet.
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 | Ground Sweeper
Sweeps all minefields over the base and recovers the ordnance.
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 | Hyperlathe
Converts one hyperdimensional stress into 250 ordnance, 10 food, 3 MC, 1 supply, 5 molybdenum, 2 tritanium, 8 duranium, and 3 fuel if there is more than 0 stress points for that planet. Additionally, if the climate is less than 96 then the climate will be increased by 1 point.
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[edit] Missing Buildings
[edit] See also
[edit] Starting Stuffs
[edit] History
[edit] Host 151
- New: Crystal ship combat armor bonus only works for the Crystal player if the Crystal player is in a Crystal hull design
[edit] Host 123
- Fixed: Crystals not immune to enemy boarding lasers
- Fixed: Crystal X field not deleting hull plans on ships with a hull type greater than 50 that are holding plans in ship memory
- Fixed: Low pop crystal games stuck with a resource point limit of only 50 for each Crystal player
[edit] Host 115
- New: Crystal X-Field block all Cyborg starting chunnels at a range of 100 LY and non-Cyborgs at a range of 200 LY
- New: Crystal X-Field blocks all Cyborg ground chunnel jumps within 200 LY
[edit] Host 102
- New: A Crystal Light Ship with its X Field on causes all Colonies Of Man fighters to loose 75% accuracy during combat
[edit] Host 94
- New: Weighted resource math. Races with low growth rates give a bonus in the resource point area. Crystals get a 56.25% cut in resource points
[edit] Host 89
- New: All detonating minefield explode before movement. This is a pretty big change. If you lay a cloaked barbitic minefield the next turn you can detonate it an clear the area of all minefields and not have to worry about hitting a mine during movement. This makes it much easier to blast through enemy minefields. However, this also means that if you are in a minefield the owner of the minefield has the power to detonate the minfield before you can sweep it. Mines are a little more deadly and blasting through them is a little easier. This slightly weakens the Crystals defenses, but now that the Crystals are 100% immune to damage from detonating web fields they still have a very good fighting chance..
[edit] Host 86
- New: Crystal X device does not take repair units from races the ship is not at war with
- New: Crystal X device does not damage mobile repair plants of races it is not at war with
- New: Crystal X device does not damage mobile ord plants of races it is not at war with
- New: Crystal X field will try to take repair units from ships before bases.
[edit] Host 85
- Fixed: Crystal X device error is causing a crash of host during space maintain 2
- New: Crystals: Diamond Flame Battleship has special plasma armor that is highly resistant to ord weapons
- New: Crystals: Immune to damage from detonating web minefields
- New: Crystal X Field causes ord plants and ship repair plants to explode if they are turned on while within 50 LY. Ships will take heavy damage.
[edit] Host 83
- New: Crystal X field DOES NOT steal fuel anymore
[edit] Host 82
- New: Crystal X field steals 10 units of fuel from all ships within 50ly
- New: Crystals immune to enemy crystal X field device
- New: Crystals get a ship long message when they steal from and enemy ship with the X field device
- New: Crystal X field causes mobile ord factories to explode, if they are on
- New: Crystal X field causes mobile repair plants to explode, if they are on
[edit] Planets 36
- New: Program is aware of Crystal hyperlathes making food
[edit] Host 68
- Fixed: Crystal X Field device fails to captures enemy ships with high engine damage if the Crystal ship has a 100% full repair hold
[edit] Host 67
- New: Boarding lasers do not work on Crystal owned ships
[edit] Host 66
- Fixed: Hull plans on a ship "Deleted by order of the leader" on all ships that have an ID number greater than a Crystal ground base, but less then the ID of a base belonging to a non-Crystal player
[edit] Host 58
- New: Siliconids join Crystals: Chance they will join (((PSI * 3) / 500) * 100)%
[edit] Host 56
- Fixed: Crystals not getting their +5 HD Stress delta on their homeworld
- Fixed: Silicoids not making ord for Crystals (1 ord per 100 natives)
[edit] Host 54
- New: In a ground war between the Cyborg and any other race besides the Lizards, Crystals or another Cyborg; 30% of the defeated Cyborg colonists will be reclaimed as colonists. The Birdmen can reclaim 50%.. Cyborg killed by Assault units or fighters will NOT be recovered.
[edit] Host 51
- New: Siliconoids produce ord for crystal players. 100 Natives produce 1 Ord per turn. Max of 10000 Ord per planet.
- New: Crystal homeworlds have a +5 HD stress delta
- New: The Crystal X field can steal a max of 500 repair units per enemy ship per turn
[edit] Master 23
- New: Crystals starting stockpiles of ord increased
[edit] Host 50
- Fixed: Ship plans at bases being deleted with the message that "Crystal ship plans vanished!"
[edit] Host 49
- New: Output of Crystal Hyper Lathe's molybdenum increased. Each HD Stress point is turned into: 200 Ord, 10 Food, 3 Megacredits, 1 Supply, 8 Duranium, 2 Tritanium, 5 Molybdenum, 3 Neutronium
[edit] Host 48
- New: Crystals can not own ship plans from other races.
- New: Any Crystal ship plan that another race ends up with will vanish
- New: Any ship owned by a Crystal player can travel through a web minefield without any danger of hitting a web mine.
- New: Any ship built by a Crystal player can travel through a web minefield without any danger of hitting a web mine even if owned by a non-crystal race.
- New: Crystal shields take 3 times normal shield drain when hit by ord firing weapons (Any ship owned by a Crystal player)
- New: Crystal shields take half normal shield drain when hit by non-ord firing weapons (Any ship owned by a Crystal player)
- New: When a Crystal shield is hit by a non-ord weapon half the energy that it took to fire the weapon is absorbed into the Crystal ship's weapons.
- New: Crystals require a climate 100 planet for maximum growth rate.
- New: Crystals can not be assimilated by the Cyborg
- New: Crystal X Field ( planets4.exe sees it as: Device 8 ) Steals repair units from all ships, bases and pods within 50 LY. Can steal a maxium of what the ship's repair hold size is. If the repair hold is full it will still take a full measure of enemy repair units and destroy them. It will take from all other empires, including ones that you are not at war with. The device will capture any enemy ship within 50 LY that has more than 99% engine damage. Device will erase all ship plans in ships, pods, and bases within 150 LY.
[edit] Master 20
- New: Master knows about the Lizards and Crystals. Gives Crystals correct starting buildings at home base.
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