Whats the difference between a normal and a morph?
A “morph,” or “metamorph,” is described in the standard docs as the type of race you’d see in John Carpenter’s “The Thing.” The major differences between morphs and normals can be summarized like this: — Morphs can absorb enemy bodies when they attack a sector — Morphs can build spore pods on planetary surfaces — Morphs’ IQ is determined only by their population It used to be the case that morphs had a very high metabolism and very high fighting strength to go along with all of this, but the advent of racegen has changed that considerably. Now, morphs can have all of the basic characteristics of normal races — but the three attributes mentioned above are only available to metamorphs. The disadvantage that offsets this option is that some items will be more expensive in racegen. I’ll discuss these three items in reverse order: First, morph IQ is based on some exponential population formula. In all games, this means their IQ starts at 0, and the maximum possible morph IQ can be set b
