SE IV Gold: Starting tech levels? Yes or No?

Captain Kwok · #1 December 6th, 2001, 11:35 PM

A scenario editor would be nice but would take some time for Aaron to program. However, using starting tech levels it would be fairly easy to create decent scenarios - and if the map editor was slightly changed so you could assign multiple planets to a player that would almost be as good as a scenario editor...

bearclaw · #2 December 7th, 2001, 12:01 AM

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Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
Maybe. But I wouldn't want to see it done SE3 style.

Why? Well, SE3 setup, each tech level was one point. No matter if it cost 5000 research points once in-game or 10000000000000, pre-game it was the same. IMO, that was a bad idea.

Phoenix-D

I have to agree to this to a point. I liked the SE3 option of choosing starting techs and I agree that 1 point per level made it unbalanced. I would love to see the option for choosing starting techs based on their Research point cost per level. Say, start a game where everyone could start with 500,000 research points max. worth of tech. That could be just one more colonizing type or some pretty nifty weapons. I think that any more than 500,000 and you might as well play a max tech game.

Just my opinion.

evader · #3 December 7th, 2001, 02:42 AM

defintly need something along those lines. As it stands now the game starts out too slow.

if its 1 point per tech or what I don't care. Just give us some control over starting tech please

Atrocities · #4 December 7th, 2001, 03:24 AM

A lot of these ideas may not be included with Gold, but the more people support Aaron the greater the chance that they will all be included in SE V if produced.

Q · #5 December 7th, 2001, 11:40 AM

No matter how it's done, but choosing starting technologies would be very important for me. If you can make a real scenario editor all the better, but I think this would be much more work to implement.

dmm · #6 December 7th, 2001, 06:56 PM

All we need is for MM to put in an option to allow save/read gamefiles as ASCII. Judging from historical precedent with other games, someone else will then quickly write a shareware scenario editor. (Notice I say "option." During the setup of a game one could simply disable the option to save gamefiles as ASCII.)

dogscoff · #7 December 10th, 2001, 10:34 AM

In theory, starting techs should be more or less modddable using racial techs. Just as one race starts with organics and another doesn't you could mod the files with a series of "parallel" racial tech areas so that a race can spend points to start with (say) fighters.

Can some more experienced modder confirm this for me? I think it would involve a lot of work.

[ 10 December 2001: Message edited by: dogscoff ]