Is this possible in a mod?

[Wenin]

Any ideas on keeping the ancient race from using the gates? =) They're suppose to be dead... can't go using stuff when you're dead. =)

[Fyron]

If you make them neutrals, they will not be able to travel through (any) warp points. That's about all you can do, short of making their ships have no practical deep space range.

[Alneyan]

You could make the components harder to use, by toying with supplies in particular. Ditch the Resupply Depots and similar stuff, and make the Warp Opener use up all the supplies on board the vessel. Engine drain will remove a few of these supplies, making the Warp Opener impossible to use.

The other players will be able to power up the device again by resupplying it with the standard means.

[Wenin]

Excellent point Alneyan.

[Suicide Junkie]

Actually, regular players wouldn't be able to charge it up enough...

They would need to be able to build a single ship with more supply storage than the component requires per shot.

A flock of smaller supply ships won't work, since supplies are shared such that all ships get the same amount.

[Alneyan]

Suicide Junkie said:
Actually, regular players wouldn't be able to charge it up enough...

They would. Resupply Depots are infinite, and aren't exactly high tech; Quantum Reactors would work for more flexibility.

All you need to do is make the engines use *some* supplies; 1 point per engine is all it takes. Solar Collectors would be enough to correct a low supply expense.

That, and the Warp Opener does not need to use many supplies, but merely all the supplies on board the vessel (which can be any amount, depending on how the vessel is designed). 3,000 could be powered up by a lone supply cargo with 6,000 or more.

I would recommend using a special tech trait for the Ancients that includes *all* their components, so as to make the computation easier... That, and Ion Engine I on Ancient ships would look odd.

[Wolfman77]

If all their components are based on racial techs, then nothing would be repairable by normal races. Which makes sense in this case, I just wanted to point that out. If the component is destroyed on use, it will only be useable once, ever.

Also you might want to keep them from using self destruct devices on all their ships, maybe by removing their reaserch ability with a trait.

[Suicide Junkie]

Alneyan said:

They would. Resupply Depots are infinite, and aren't exactly high tech; Quantum Reactors would work for more flexibility.

The suggestion earlier involved deleting resupply depots and quantum reactors.
So no, they wouldn't.