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This shows both the stagnation of the Hai and the idea that they may have reached their technological limit long ago. Even so, they are hardly more powerful than humanity, and have been this way for about 90,000 years. The Hai are among the oldest factions in the game, having been a major player in the galaxy for much longer than the Korath or the Coalition and Heliarchs. No faction exemplifies this idea better than the Hai. As such, while the tiers listed represent the various races' and factions' approximate technological level at the start of the game, they are not fixed at those levels and may change over the course of the stories. This is where we find most of the alien factions at the start of the game, in a stagnant state. In some cases, they have even regressed somewhat. In mathematical terms, the technological level of a society appears to mimic a bell curve: slow to start, then picks up a lot of speed for the first while, then slows to a crawl again as they reach a point where they can comfortably sustain themselves and manage their threat environment. As a general rule, most of the alien races are significantly more advanced than humanity, but they are to some degree stagnated at their current level of technology. Where exactly this plateau is seems dependent on a variety of factors, not the least of which include how much space they have in the galaxy, what sort of threats they face on a regular basis, and their general mindset.

So in that regard, the Coalition could be considered a 'weak tier 1.5' while the Remnant are a 'strong tier 1.5.' Stagnation and limitsĮvery race seems to have its own technological plateau at which their development has flattened out. Similarly, the Coalition and Remnant, while both being 'tier 1.5,' are not too comparable given the fact that the Coalition is demilitarized, while the Remnant are in a constant fight against the Korath exiles. Lower factions may still have ships or outfits that are 'stronger' in some respects than higher factions, and factions of the same tiers should not be neck-and-neck in all ways.įor example, the Wanderers have cooling outfits weaker than humans, so in that regard humans are 'stronger' than Wanderers, but this is mainly due to the fact that the Wanderers do not have as much of a need for cooling. It is important to note that tiers are not a concrete way to say that 'every ship or outfit from X must be better than every ship or outfit from Y because X is of a greater tier than Y.' Tiers are instead a general guideline as to the strength of various factions. Tier ?: Pug (they have ships of different tiers depending on who they are fighting)Īs more alien species are added, it's likely the Quarg and Drak will need to be made stronger to make room for more tiers in between.The existing aliens are grouped roughly into tiers, where a heavy warship of a civilization on one tier is a match for a light warship of the next tier up: And, the Quarg are probably 'stronger' than the Drak just because there are trillions of Quarg with a huge number of ships. For example, the Wanderers are more technologically advanced than the Korath but have focused very little of their energy on military technology when you first encounter them.

The military 'strength' of each civilization also depends on how populous they are and how focused they are on warfare. For example, even if the player is flying the best ship you can get in human / Hai space, they will be woefully outgunned when they first enter Korath space. Once the whole galaxy is 'populated' with alien species, nearly all of them will be technologically superior to humans.

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None of this is 'canon' - if you're writing a mission and you have a cooler idea than what is written here, feel free to ignore all of this. This is basically a list of plot ideas, either for side missions or for incorporation into one of the main story lines.

Polygonal collision detection algorithms.

Motion blur rendering using OpenGL shaders.

Using frame tweening for smooth animations.

Tricks for creating special blending modes.

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