impressions of Pirates and Nomad mod?

jimbob · #1 August 13th, 2003, 08:33 PM

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As for intel, if things get bad, the homeworld can be abandoned to break contact with the other races and instantly eliminate intel interactions.

Of course if you've had a long history of working as a privateer for another race, you may be able to convince them to "hold onto" your planet for a period of time. Getting it back from them may prove a bit difficult, but this may be a better move than full abandonment!

I'd suggest large numbers of small ships with ship boarding capacity. Swarm tactics with cheap, fast, replaceable (read: small) ships is far more effective in most cases. This runs contrary to most games where the larger hulls give a weapons mount advantage. Boarding parties have no mounts and enjoy a "100% to hit bonus" once shields are down, so why use mounts?

Fyron · #2 August 13th, 2003, 08:37 PM

Keep in mind that abandoning your HW will also cut off all trade treaties, thus destroying all trade income. That could be disastrous.

Merry Jolkar · #3 August 14th, 2003, 01:05 AM

Sounds fun. I'm going to ask some new players to join our group, each paired with a nomad or a pirate experienced player. Who are stronger, Pirates or Nomads?
Merry

Suicide Junkie · #4 August 14th, 2003, 02:35 AM

Either would be good without pre-arranged teams.

If you go with a nomad partner, they can give you the no-maintenance ships...
If you go with a Pirate, they can get your super-stealthy ships. The Pirate Hoards might come in handy for all the trade income you'll be getting...

I'd say the Nomad would be more powerful as an ally.

[ August 14, 2003, 03:39: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

Merry Jolkar · #5 August 17th, 2003, 01:12 AM

I'm playing around with P&N mod, and the graphics look great. But, when I run host, I get a message stating that:

"Unknown value "Drone Attack" for Default Strategy in record "Anti-Ship Drone.
"Unknown value "Drone Attack" for Default Strategy in record "Anti-Planet Drone."

The error comes up multiple times and I suspect it might therefore have to do with an error in executing the A.I. scripts.

What am I missing here?
Thanks, Merry
Thanks,
John

Suicide Junkie · #6 August 17th, 2003, 01:38 AM

There are no drones in P&N, so it dosen't really matter.

Copy the defaultstrategies.txt from TDM to get rid of that.
I'll upload a fix for that in just a bit.

Merry Jolkar · #7 August 17th, 2003, 01:46 AM

Thanks for the quick reply. It occurred to me :what happens if you are playing with a mod on PBW and an error like this occurs? Manually hosting, I have to hit "OK". (I assume people have successfully played P&N on PBW, right?)

[ August 17, 2003, 00:49: Message edited by: Merry Jolkar ]