Mine balance suggestion

[DavidG]

A though occurs to me as I read the cloaking thread. Is it possible to add a new type of cloak? ie in additions to Gravitic etc. add a 'Mine' cloak abilbiy. Then you could make a specific mine detector without screwing up the ship cloak/detector bit.

(or was this what you did Gandalph? )

[ August 02, 2002, 23:40: Message edited by: DavidG ]

[Gandalph]

Originally posted by DavidG:
A though occurs to me as I read the cloaking thread. Is it possible to add a new type of cloak? ie in additions to Gravitic etc. add a 'Mine' cloak abilbiy. Then you could make a specific mine detector without screwing up the ship cloak/detector bit.

(or was this what you did Gandalph? )

No, what I did was change gravitic sensors to mine detectors level 1-5 and changed gravitic cloak level on mines to level 1-5 so a level 1 detector can see a level 1 mine, and so on. IMO, the different sensor and cloaking abilities are hard coded so you can't just add a mine detector/cloak ability, although I have not tried. I also seperated mine, mine detector, and mine sweeping techs so you can research independantly, except mines level 1 is a requirement for mine detector and mine sweeping techs.

[DavidG]

Originally posted by Gandalph:
No, what I did was change gravitic sensors to mine detectors level 1-5 and changed gravitic cloak level on mines to level 1-5 so a level 1 detector can see a level 1 mine, and so on. IMO, the different sensor and cloaking abilities are hard coded so you can't just add a mine detector/cloak ability, although I have not tried. I also seperated mine, mine detector, and mine sweeping techs so you can research independantly, except mines level 1 is a requirement for mine detector and mine sweeping techs.[/QB]

Just checked out your mod. What's up with you mine detectors having Quantum Reactor ability??

[Gandalph]

Originally posted by DavidG:
Just checked out your mod. What's up with you mine detectors having Quantum Reactor ability??

The Quantum Reactor has been removed from my mod as I don't see unlimited supplies as "realistic", so I used the ability to tag the mine detectors so the AI could place them on their ships.

[ August 04, 2002, 18:58: Message edited by: Gandalph ]

[Phoenix-D]

Uh, Gandalph.. that will make your mine detectors give the ship they are mounted on infinite supplies..

Phoenix-D

[Gandalph]

Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
Uh, Gandalph.. that will make your mine detectors give the ship they are mounted on infinite supplies..

Phoenix-D

Yeah, I just found that out in testing. I will give it some other ability, not sure what yet.

[Phoenix-D]

Try something from a facility or star; those tend not to work. Put the quantum reactor AI reference on a base component or something, since those get infinite supplies anyway.

Phoenix-D