Again I haven't actually run this thing, but it looks like he's doing a periodic action for the duration of the DE's culture effect, so that if the AI actually built another culture center while its active it would switch control. Even if it isn't working though there is definitely a periodic action in his buff, which should be replaced with an instant action unless there is an intentional reason to want its effect to continue.

The grey goo is really fun--unfortunately it is the lag beast from hell once it gobbles enough ships up.

I prefer the instant over periodic for the same reasons Goa does.

How much does it cost to rent Volt?

Did you switch it from AlwaysPerform to OnDelay? AlwaysPerform doesn't work with instant actions in buffs most of the time. Only in abilities for some reason.

Ah, forgot about that part.  Fixed:

http://www.mediafire.com/?v5ihxptiojv68bs

Sinperium, I actually had an idea like that ,too, to convert the enemy's broadcast centers. But then I thought that, though the enem- wait... the topic is already done? The mod is already made? Nevermind then.

But to add some actual worth to posting, you mentioned spawning ships from the shot. You already know my other old idea, and I'm sure you know I am no modder, but if the shot from the DE managed to get the population of the planet to build scout ships [so that they already have exploration set] with a passive culture spread... Of course this is just if the current mod isn't enough of a Super. I'm just sad we can't scramble enemy fleets.

Well, Grey Goo was so laggy primarily because of the fact that it was a fork bomb DoT.  The logic gates I had to stick in there to buff and unbuff are what I was referring to as far as being inefficient goes.  My point was that there was a possible (though inefficient) buff chain previously available that would function as a logic gate.  I basically had to create that framework and then add the forking component to get it to be Grey Goo.

But to answer your quest what's the point?  It's cool. 

There is no way I have the time to scratch create an intricate new ability--I know a little about a lot and a lot about little.  That said, I am pretty sure you can trigger a lot of things easily with your shot in the gravity well.

Ships could be spawned or captured, destroyed, stunned--whatever.  Lot's of potential. How it would work and how practical depends on what sort of effect you want.

Try the mod Volt_Cruelerz made here if you want to see the capturable culture centers (that's the final version).

lol, it was Sinperium's idea.  I just made it.  

Grey Goo was an ability I designed that could only be applied to a unit either without shields or with it's shields down.  Once inside the shields, the DoT begins to fork and the DPS taken by the ship skyrockets.  Also, any nearby ships also get hit by it if their shields are down.  When the ship ultimately explodes (I made it so that only Repair Cloud could save the infected ships, though you'd have to be ready to spam it repeatedly), it infects a larger radius of ships regardless of whether or not their shields are online.  As a result, once a ship gets hit by it you send that ship on whatever course it's on and have everything else run for the hills.

So yes, Grey Goo does consume everything in it's path.

Lol, this was really quite easy, likely because I'd already been thinking of the possibility of sticking various passive abilities on the fifth slot of every ship and what that could allow.

The first thing that comes to mind is the ability to establish hard-set synergies between ships.  For instance, the Radiance, Progenitor, and Halcyon could collectively have AoE buffs that when return to themselves with the buffs from the others, super-buff that particular unit, creating the "Holy Trinity."  Likewise, you could make a "Dark Triad" (or whatever you want to call it) out of the Revelation, Rapture, and Discord.

Each object in the game would have an ability called AbilityIs____, so AbilityIsProgenitor, AbilityIsRadiance, AbilityIsHalcyon, etc.  AbilityIsProgenitor for instance would then apply things such as BuffIsProgenitor and BuffIsAdvent.

BuffIsProgenitor would apply buffs to all nearby owned capitals and would test them for BuffIsRadiance or BuffIsHalcyon.  If a ship receives the buffs from all three, it receives something like BuffHolyTrinityProgenitor that'd do all sorts of things to AM regen or what have you.

Sorry, off-topic.

Was playing a game with this as Advent Loyalists against multiple Advent enemies.  I was getting hit so frequently that I stopped building culture centers all together and just let Global Unity and starbases handle my culture.  To my surprise, this actually worked.  Global Unity is incredibly good at countering this.

Unfortunately, there isn't a whole lot the other races can do.

Then again, that is effectively how the other two races are.  TEC get shield generators against Novaliths and Vasari get Phase Stabilizers against the Kostura, so I guess it works out.

Definitely makes it something to fear, particularly in large numbers.

What if the DE didn't fire... it just constantly beamed culture to the target?