New tech mod plan

[Phoenix-D]

More component ideas..

WP mounts that extend range a bit.
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"Planetary Fortification" mounts that make a WP much tougher, at the cost of adding to expense. Like mounts that double or tripple the hit points of all components, plus the normal effects, simultating using the planet itself as a shield.

Jammers- 10k missiles that do minimal damage. Designed to present PD with a large amount of targets to fire at.

Sprint missiles- missiles that reach their max range in just one or two turns.

Small weapons- I may let some of the smaller weapons fit on ships, to round out that Last 3 kt you can get stuck with with certain mounts.

Hardened Structure- non-armor armor

As you can probably tell, I'll be shamelessly borrowing from other mods. This extra stuff will be added Last though, I want to finish reorganizing the SE4 tree first.

I'll be starting work on this tonight.

Phoenix-D

[Phoenix-D]

Well, you can forget about the "advanced colonization" tech areas. SE4 goes nutty when you try and make new colonization modules..

Phoenix-D

[Phoenix-D]

Update: the work on techareas.txt is pretty much finished, I think. Still needs to be balanced, and I'd love to find a way to get the advanced colonies working, but the framework is there.

Phoenix-D

[Phoenix-D]

OK, just learned about what the AI does when it encounters mines.

What ELSE does the AI research automatticly?

Phoenix-D

[Phoenix-D]

(Yes, I'm going to continue bumping this thread with updates)

OK, progress. Components.txt- almost finished, just need the decoys. Facilites.txt- finished. techareas.txt- finished. airesearch default.txt-finished.

I also modded the Happyness types a bit, made neutral into Xenophobic and added a seperate Neutral type. Also changed the defaultstratagies.txt to make a little more sense (ex: why the **** is the secondary stratagy for Maximum range.. POINT BLANK? )

I also found a little problem with the family numbers. See, every time I've added a new item, I just stick 999 on the end. But SE4 doesn't like it when that number goes over 65535; it barfs saying "unable to load components.txt" without giving a specific error. Very aggrivating to track down, that.

I should have a beta Version of this mod up later.

Phoenix-D

[Suicide Junkie]

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What ELSE does the AI research automatticly?

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Probably SM if it feels cut off from the rest of the universe.

[Phoenix-D]

Makes sense. Hopefully it has the brains to pick the right tech area..

BTW, whoever made the mod picker- VERY nice utility. Saves a lot of pain going back and forth

EDIT: More foibles. SE4 does NOT like typos. I accidently put "q" rather than "2" for an entry in components.txt.. barfed, no error message given other than unable to load.

Tip: Se4 interprets two empty lines as the end of the file. Good to isolate sections of the file (to troubleshoot) without actually needing to remove them.

Phoenix-D

[This message has been edited by Phoenix-D (edited 26 August 2001).]