Race: The Swarm
Alignment: Evil

Description:
The Swarm is a throughly virulent race of unknown origin that appeared and desolated entire regions with little rhyme or reason, not for conquest, but to pursue their unerring goal to devour and assimilate the multitude of races that reside in Elveron for further evolution and reproduction.

A seemingly feral species that lack sentience and devoid of any signs of civilization like language, science, technology or construction it appeared to be intelligent and is capable of engaging in tactics and could rely on its multitude of biological processes to provide for its various needs.

It is an insectoid race composed of a motley assortment of nightmarish creatures ranging from the swift Hiveling to the massive Behemoth that can feed their army for weeks or crush an opposing army in seconds. Scholars believe that there are possibly many unnamed horrors that further skirmishes may reveal as they mutate with each battle.

Bonuses/Penalties:

• -90% resource decay

• -80% rezone cost

• Starts with 120,000 Food, 25,000 Magic Dust and 120,000 Lumber.

Military:

Code:

Name            Atk  Def  Ret  Trn  Cas  Mage  Spy  Cost
Hiveling        2    3    10   9    150               400g
Nydralisk       4    2    12   9    100               800g
Galophant            9    12   12    80               3000l
Direvore        9         12   12    80               400dm
Behemoth        7    7    12   12    80               3000fd
Psionic Pupae                  6           1     1    1500m
Larva                                                 100g

Racial Spell:

• Bio Recycler (SELF, ONE TIME) - Instantly sacrifice all units in training for 30% of their resourse cost.

• Frenzy (SELF, ONE TIME) - Increase casualties by 30% and decrease return time by 2 hours for next attack.

Building Differences:

• Cannot build Saw Mill
  Cannot build Towers
  Cannot build Farms
  Cannot build Diamond Mine

• Hive(grassland) - Home

• Galophant Mound(forest) - Mutates 0.2*Galophant Mound % of Hivelings and Nydralisks sent to Galophant on all attacks and defenses

• Dire Den(highland) - Mutates 0.2*Dire Den % of Hivelings and Nydralisks sent to Direvore on all attacks and defenses

• Behemoth Cavern(mountain) - Mutates 0.2*Behemoth Cavern % of Hivelings and Nydralisks sent to Behemoths on all attacks and defenses

• Pupae Pit(swamp) - Mutates 0.2*Pupae Pit % of Hivelings and Nydralisks sent to Psionic Pupae on all attacks and defenses

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Version Revision History:
1.0 - (16/12/2011) Initial Launch
1.1 - (21/12/2011) Conversion ratio down from 0.5 to 0.2. / Train times of converted units increased to 12 = more adaptable push

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Like the concept but the buildings sound a bit confusing how about...











Galophent Mound (forest) Trains 0.5*Galophent Mound % of hivelings and Nydralisksas Galophants.

Or maybe I'm just misunderstanting.

(p.s i nerfed their conversion ratios)


Basically say you built 10% of your land into Galaphant Mounds.
10%*0.2 = 2% conversion from the building.
Next you sent 1000 Hivelings and 2000 Nydralisks off to attack.
1000*0.02=20 Hivelings will be converted to Galophants.
2000*0.02=40 Nydralisks will be converted to Galophants.

So off this attack you gained 60 Galophants which will finish training in 12 hours.

You may then say sacrifice all of them for lumber (60*3000*0.5=90,000lumber) for use in construction.

Or gained 60*9=540DP.

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like the idea - dislike the building ratios and uber resources

if 30% of your buildings are for op elites
30% are for dp elites
10% are for farms

thats only like 20% homes

you'll be running huge amounts of specs without the space or economy
think thats a fail




also if it has nothing to do with casulaties and its just sent.... then i would only use hivelings and will send as often as possible- more spec per gold. Is it every attack or only successful attacks?



so to fix - increase cov - decrease resource gains from elites - maybe have behemoth trainable as similar gold to farms (or expensive) so players have an option instead of sui


just thoughts n feedback
quite kool tho - i want a bug/nid race also

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If the conversion applies to just sucssesful attacks then they need a huge pop boost to make up for the lack of homes and because most elites will be sacrificedd for resources. If unsucessful attacks count then decrease specs CAS.

Could be wrong just giving my 2 cents