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[quote who="Leauki" reply="19" id="2191596"] How is that an excellent point? I asked him how he decides what is right and wrong without religion and he just told me that he would do what Moses did and make up his own (although presumably without a god). He didn't even answer my question, let alone prove anything about his position. As for the "old trope": "Is God good because his actions are good? Or are God's actions goo

Ethics is a study of certain behaviour sets, a philosophical examination of our beliefs and motivations (e.g., Hume claimed an ethical belief [conviction] was one which was self motivating) not a set a of deontological rules. It is 'do I do this action because I am told it is just, or do I do it because it is just?' It is the way we examine how we decide what is good and evil. Many strains stress the reduction of suffering, from Bentham's utilitarianism to the

[quote who="Leauki" reply="12" id="2191543"]MM ONE, How do you decide what justice is without religion? [/quote] With ethics ! With ruthelss self-examination of our selves, our minds, our opinions, our cognitive states. For example Kropotkin thought ethics comes from our instinctual dispositions towards mutual aid - the desire to aid our fellows. A species which follows these instincts is better able to combat the vicsitudes of a harsh environment by

There seems to be a basic problem with a whole half of the argument here: those arguing that there is a god, or that a belief in god is commensurate with science, start from an assumption that there is a god . You can't bang on about logical fallacies when you start from one. It is a trend which repeats itself with a depressing monotony. Essentially these people say 'the universe shows no overt evidence of having been created by an omnipotent being, yet despite this, let us posit just

[quote who="eraser310" reply="25" id="2138640"]You guys should try just picking up the Bible and reading it. You all talk about reading all this stuff about how God can't be real, well I think that to be a good scientist you must hear and study all sides of the arguement. There are many things in the Bible that make sense. If you guys do a study you will realize that the bible has a lot of stuff in it that explains things that we thought could only be explained by technology. Consider that. <

Except that the Advent use psitech drones, 'pilots' remain on board the carrier. But something could be thought up to get round that.

I like some of the ideas concerning new cruisers etc. - particularly with Entrenchment in mind. As it is, pirates wind up plowing into minefields and getting turned to paste when they approach a starbase. Basically, introduce two new cruisers: An anti-structure cruiser, basically a refitted Ogrov (with maybe a few extra autocannon, to make it effective against non-structures - just lower its torpedo damage to balance it). A command cruiser with an ability to lower the targets

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="3" id="2062441"]"Deal more than 40,000 damage total with a single use of the Argonev's Final Protocol". Name it something like "What's this button do?" 40k might be too little, though. [/quote] That's quite good - you could have a faction-specific one for each side, e.g. Advent: "Throwing Rocks: deal X damage[/kill Y ships] with the Ascencia's[sp?] meteor control ability." That also results in a neat side effe

[quote who="gotyaoi" reply="8" id="2059322"]Definitely agreed on the martyrdom ability. It also doesn't seem to fit the advent as well. I can understand the whole "Give your life for the advent", but it seems a sort of pointless gesture, even with the level of devotion of a seeker crew. And with lingering presence, the advents sight specialty is already covered. Perhaps something that affects culture spread, either you own or an adversaries. It doesn't seem unreasonable that seekers could be

Tried this again, failed. Adjudicators still failed to fire even after fully replacing them. This was a game started after 2.5. It worked before the 2.5 update however.

There's a quick fix for this. Scuttle ALL your adjudicators then, when they're all destroyed, rebuild them. Not the best, efficient nor cost effective fix, but it's worked each time I've tried it.