Brinksmanship

I WILL PERSONALLY SKIN THE PERSON WHO DOES NOT AGREE WITH THIS IDEA'S AWESOMENESS!!!!!!!!

no really. i will.

Seriously though, this is an awesome idea. I think that this would add an excellent and interesting dimension to any mode of play, from SP to LAN to online MP.

I agree. Taunts should have a bigger presence in game!

I agree. Taunts should have a bigger presence in game!

FROM the ai, yes.  but it would be too strictly guidelined to make taunts to it.  Just like giving quests to the ai would be too guidelined.  Hell, getting the same ones over and over is pushing it.

As for player to player, it's very possible already.

Go ahead.  Skin me.  I dare you.

I AM A REAL NINJA!!! PREPARE TO BE SKINNED!!! *skins CallenExile 4 times*

*Appologizes to my stunt double, and seeks vengeance on Whiskey144 by skinning him alive 5 times, using consecutively duller butter knives.*

Obviously yes it quite possible to make threats and the like with human players, but when playing in skirmish, or with friends via LAN against/with AI, you don't really have much reason to maintain friendships with the AI late in the game as the only consequence to refusing a mission is losing some points from your relationship, with a actual consequence attached the missions become much more of a priority, but that doesn't mean eliminating the "give me crystal and I'll be your buddy" sort of quest, it just adds a bit of dimension to the opponent. Especially if happen to bluffing, then you (or the AI) could say "I'll nuke your capital if you don't give me 2000 credits, metal and crystal" then if they accept, you could simply invade them anyway and gain a little more benefit out of it. To work in such a mechanic into the interface would take 3 drop boxes and 6 or so options for each box, adding 216 possible missions. That would be some awesome Diplomacy.

I'm not actively against it, i just don't think it will happen because of the sheer ammount of work it would take to perfect all those drop boxes.  It's almost an expansion by itself.

That's a good point, it would no doubt require quite a bit of modification to the AI, but it still would be pretty cool, even if it were to happen a few months from now in a super-update or something, and if Sins 2 is on the way, they could work it in there

*apologizes to ninja-assassin-ubersniper lookalike, and prepares vengeance on CallenExile by dropping him and the skinned stunt double into a very high-temperature star, and subsequently a black hole*

*Laughs as you realize the avatar of that star takes pity on me and the stunt double and swaps positions with you and us*

This could go on for pages.  I think we should drop it.

 -Exile

probably. But even if it could go on for pages, it is all in good fun, is it not? I think we should try to get to the absolute most ridiculous method, and then stop.

Y/N?

Meh.  I'll play along till the OP asks us to stop.  Fire away, Whiskey.

alright. Here we go.

*snickers as you realize that I have unnameable technology that lets me space-time-travel; thus, while you watch "me" fall into a star, I shoot you in the back of the face.*

*Bids a final fairwell to my stunt-double, who has once again taken my bullet.

*Takes an entire planet's population hostage and promises them freedom when they bring me your head...just the head.*

 -Exile

*employs unnameable spacetimetravel tech again, shooting you in the back of the face AGAIN*

*then, takes THREE planet's populations hostage and promises freedom upon the delivery of every possible head CallenExile could have*

*Ascends to a higher plane of exsistance upon death and decides to make you into my own personal game of galactic ping pong, launching you from one planet to another on a whim.*

 -Exile

*hacks OS of the universe and descends you to microbial substance, subsequentally feeding you to some mold*

*Posesses mold and forces an instantaneous mutation using radiation and a toothbrush, returning myself to this mortal realm, while retaining a fraction of my ascended powers.  I then reduce your time machine to ash by overloading its circuits with kilobyte after kilobyte of the nastiest porn it has ever seen*

*hacks universe OS again to create infinite versions of myself and of my spacetime machine and creates infinite x2 versions of my ninja-assassin-ubersniper lookalike, then sending you back into mold form without any ascended powers. I then commence attemptint to turn you into penicillin.*

*Hires flesh eating virus microbes to devour all sentient life in the universe, sparing only those i deem worthy.*  *HA!!!  I AM THE CURE TO MY OWN ATTACK!!!*

:ninja:-Exile

*repeats universe OS hack, removing flesh eating virus from the universe completely. No one remembers it or will every learn of it again. Creates uber-sentient-virus to serve me with perfection, and I instruct to infect and destroy you and you alone. And there is no cure.*

 funny

*peers down into my galactic petri dish I left out a few years back to find the fight between Whiskey144 and CallenExile raging away in my experimental universe.*

*Chuckles to myself and continues to watch the fight with amusment.*

I'll have a great set of notes for this years deity science awards!

*Looks up into the heavens to see our supposed creator, and offers a cease fire to Whiskey144.  May we join forces to battle this new enemy.*

:ninja:-Exile