Computer robot virus for game; plagues.txt file

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Computer robot virus for game; plagues.txt file

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I was thinking for droids (I am a star wars fan) of trying to build a deployable computer anti-droid virus...
So...
May be make the natural occurrence in the population 0...
But make the droids the 'exception' populace and make it lethal for them...

Any thoughts on this...?
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RE: Computer robot virus for game; plagues.txt file

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It could work in a mod with a single mechanical race (i.e. droids). You will actually need to modify every other virus however so that the droids aren't affected by organic viruses (otherwise it would be a bit silly). If you have more than one mechanical race or an organic virus that affects a different (non-droid) race in a unique way however, it won't work so well. I usually just make mechanical races immune to plagues, which isn't an option if you want computer viruses.

That's the theory anyway, you'd have to test it in practice. But with a single droid race you could in theory have a number of organic and computer viruses running concurrently.
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RE: Computer robot virus for game; plagues.txt file

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ORIGINAL: Fenrisfil

You will actually need to modify every other virus however so that the droids aren't affected by organic viruses (otherwise it would be a bit silly).

Are you SURE?

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