Twitter Teasers February 6th

[RupertTheBear]

It says right there in the tooltip- it unlocks a psionics-related building and allows you to train psionic armies.

I was referring to the "Latent Psionic" trait.

 

[SolarGuy]

Yay! Psionics techs are finally in their own special area, rather than being available to anyone with the right ethics or scientist without explanation!

 

[BlackUmbrellas]

Isn't this last picture quite similar to the background the Unbidden have?

Kindasortamaybedunno.

Its a pretty generic design- whether or not the glowy cloud pillar in the background is related to the glowy energy pillars of the Unbidden remains to be seen.

 

[BlackUmbrellas]

Yay! Psionics techs are finally in their own special area, rather than being available to anyone with the right ethics or scientist without explanation!

wiz confirmed on twitter that the psionic tech is not removed from the default tech tree, nor will we need the DLC to have psionics. Apparently he's going to go over the details in the next dev diary

 

[Wizzington]

The only thing I said is that those without the expansion won't lose out on any of the current psionics techs. Details on Thursday.

 

[Emraldis]

Huh, the next dev diary is really... shrouded in mystery...

 

[Antediluvian Monster]

P.S. for someone who never watched babylon 5 what's the corp, and can I make hamburger out of it ?

They are also totally not secretive or sinister. Look at the cool gloves he's got.

 

[BlackUmbrellas]

They are also totally not secretive or sinister. Look at the cool gloves he's got.

Two by two, hands of blue...

 

[Esurnir]

Huh, the next dev diary is really... shrouded in mystery...

I blame Alexis Kennedy for this, he had a bad influence on Wiz

 

[robertqin]

So can we have space wizards with laser swords?

 

[BlackUmbrellas]

So can we have space wizards with laser swords?

I mean, you already can. This'll just make their acquisition more dramatic.

 

[robertqin]

I mean, you already can. This'll just make their acquisition more dramatic.

But I thought the existing space wizards don't use laser swords

 

[BlackUmbrellas]

But I thought the existing space wizards don't use laser swords

They're experts in close-quarters combat- not a stretch of the imagination they use laser swords if you want them to.

 

[SolarGuy]

The only thing I said is that those without the expansion won't lose out on any of the current psionics techs. Details on Thursday.

(I know, I should be silently waiting for Thursday... but I don't want to )

So basically, nothing changes for those without the expansion, but psionics will be less easy to get for those that do own Utopia?

 

[scaper12123]

Huh, the next dev diary is really... shrouded in mystery...

I HAVE SEEN WHAT YOU DID THERE! Does that make me psionic?

 

[Meneliki]

This practically screams for ethnical tension events between psionicly gifted and non gifted citizens possibly ending in a civil war. Babylon 5 gives so much material for such events.

Well, I'm not sure if adding the psionic trait would use the same game mechanics as gene-modding, but if it did, a new subspecies would be created.. and since in the Banks update we will be able to give different species in our empire different living conditions.. I'm envisioning a wealthy elite of psi-gifted pops at one end, and the 'un-ascended riff raff' sent to the mines as slaves.

On the other hand, you could roleplay it the other way - those with Psi abilities are viewed as freaks who aren't to be trusted, or even tolerated.. they'd be cast down to the lowest levels of society, or cast out altogether (Anyone here play Rifts?)

This looks like it could add some very interesting depth to the game.

 

[BlackUmbrellas]

in the Banks update we will be able to give different species in our empire different living conditions

Subspecies are confirmed to be counted as their parent species, though.

Which is a missed opportunity, since genetically engineering a slave-caste or whatever would be amazing, but oh well.

 

[Meneliki]

Subspecies are confirmed to be counted as their parent species, though.

Ahhhhhh thats unfortunate. Oh well.

 

[8igualdos0s]

Subspecies are confirmed to be counted as their parent species, though.

Which is a missed opportunity, since genetically engineering a slave-caste or whatever would be amazing, but oh well.

This.

 

[Dalinski]

Is anyone following Daniel Moregard's Tweets?