I actually really like this idea - the last surviving memeber of your race, without a world, making one last attempt to get back into the game.

A good addition, I reckon. Though, much like the Terror Star, an addition that you should be able to disable if preferred.

Good point if your without a planet or Starbase at all ( and generally the AI is pretty good at targeting your Starbases first if any ) your ship would not be able to move anywhere at all. This would mean that in order for it to work your last ship(s) should have a limited range. Of course if it's a troop transport ship as your last resort it should be allowed to travel only as far as the nearest planet and attempt invasion ( provided it's not blasted outta the cosmos before you get the chance.)

Maybe they could use the location of each transport ship at the time your last planet was conquered, an you can only travel the distance to the end of that radius (since range is, after all, a limit on range because of how long the people on your ships can survive without anywhere to re-supply).

Quite frankly, It would suck if you had to mop up every last starship.


I feel that if a race survived with nothing but an unarmed transport/colony ship and there were no undefended colonies or uncolonised ones then the game should end - However if some millitary force remains then the game may end.


Y'know, Its like trying to break down a 12" wall of tempered steel with a feather otherwise

This idea was done in Alpha Centuari, and it was fun, 95% of the time... As someone earlier mentioned, it is annoying if your going for a Conquest Victory, as not only can you not win until they are totally wiped out, but depending on how fast they can move, and how early in the game it actually is (and I've seen a race wiped out in the first 10 weeks) then it could take you ages to find them.

By which time the beggers have now got another 15 - 50 colonies, all producing ships, and you will have to fight every single one, because they won't be banded together in a fleet, oh no, because that would be too damn easy.

Then, while your concentrating on destroying the vile things, they sneak off again, or take one or more of you inner planets, and then you have two places you need to attack... Then it becomes three, because they take another couple of planets elsewhere.

The process becomes too long.... I agree it is a good idea, as long as its an option like disabling the minor races.

Perhaps, instead, when a race is conquered, or it surrenders, the conqueror (or the race it surrendered to) gets all it's remaining ships and starbases. Or they become rogue ships, like the pirates or the escaped prisonners. Don't have to kill them for military victory, but they are still around, and attack weak targets of opportunity. Even in fact grab planets, if they have transports left.

As a human player, if you managed to get all your worlds conquered, there might be an option that you would get assigned a 'newly habitable' planet somewhere in a remote corner, as far away as possible from the race who conquered you.

As a human player, if you managed to get all your worlds conquered, there might be an option that you would get assigned a 'newly habitable' planet somewhere in a remote corner, as far away as possible from the race who conquered you

Well, it shouldn't be a hand out since survival isn't really something you just happen to come across regularily when you are being destroyed by the enemy. Besides, quite a few people have said they would like the idea if it could be turned off (to make those conquest victories easier) and I would have to agree.

@3xman: Jeez, where is your fighting spirit? haha


Maybe the people who no longer have planets could incur a penalty to the amount of moves they can make in a turn? That way they could be easier to track down, but would still put up a fight if you did manage to catch them. (In other words, in later stages of the game, they wouldn't fly from one side of the galaxy to the other and back again!)