P&N for v1.78?

[Matryx]

SJ, will there ever be anything that can be built from "Rube Goldberg Designs" or is it just to make sure players don't *always* get anything useable from a tech stash?

[Suicide Junkie]

Dumbluck: Thanks for the suggestions!
Done, Done, and Done

There's nothing currently planned for RGD tech. If you have some appropriate suggestions, I would be willing to add them

SJ's ToDo list for P&N PBW:
- add no-ai files
X add TDM formations
X add super popmodifiers file
X adjust prices for characteristics. (Be sure to look closely at the most common, and most ignored ones )
X fix minor image/sound bugs.
X disallow unit mounts on DU autocannons.
X recheck weapons for unit mounting and clean up availability list.
- Change Allegiance Subverter into anti-boarding-defense Mental Shredder.
- Change Talisman into a vehicle mount.
- Add drones to Pirate races.
- Add seekers to fighters
X Repair small gravitic drive MP/kt settings.
- Change supply storage tech requirements to require resupply tech. Rename resupply tech to supply storage tech.
X Extend unit shield mounts to cover mini-shield generators.
X large drives!
X Scale up solar sails 10x, and add more levels.
- ruins & racial crossovers
X small racial armors.
X add more levels of shield regenerators (up to 2x rate at maxtech)
X tweak mini-regenerators to match the full size regens.
X add more levels of solar collector tech.
- Adjust prices & supply use of weapons.
- Adjust facility costs to reflect labour.
X Gun Nuts -200 kt to mount requirements.
- Redo mines & sweeping system
- Major training facilities are spaceborne.
- Training facilities only on maintenance-bearing bases. Cost scales as max% cubed or so. Max training fairly unlimited, but to double the training, you pay roughly 8x as much in maintenance.

[ November 09, 2002, 16:30: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

[dumbluck]

Man, this is sounding like sooooo much fun!

Can we assume that you're using your old PBW population modifiers?

[Suicide Junkie]

SJ's ToDo list for P&N PBW:
- add no-ai files
X add TDM formations
X add super popmodifiers file
X adjust prices for characteristics. (Be sure to look closely at the most common, and most ignored ones )
X fix minor image/sound bugs.
X disallow unit mounts on DU autocannons.
X recheck weapons for unit mounting and clean up availability list.
- Change Allegiance Subverter into anti-boarding-defense Mental Shredder.
- Change Talisman into a vehicle mount.
- Add SpaceYard Expansion projects.
- Convert to limited supplies mode.
- Add drones to Pirate races.
- Add seekers to fighters
X Repair small gravitic drive MP/kt settings.
- Change supply storage tech requirements to require resupply tech. Rename resupply tech to supply storage tech.
X Extend unit shield mounts to cover mini-shield generators.
X large drives!
X Scale up solar sails 10x, and add more levels.
- ruins & racial crossovers
X small racial armors.
X add more levels of shield regenerators (up to 2x rate at maxtech)
X tweak mini-regenerators to match the full size regens.
X add more levels of solar collector tech.
- Adjust prices & supply use of weapons.
X Adjust facility costs to reflect labour.
X Gun Nuts -200 kt to mount requirements.
- Redo mines & sweeping system
- Major training facilities are spaceborne.
- Training facilities only on maintenance-bearing bases. Cost scales as max% cubed or so. Max training fairly unlimited, but to double the training, you pay roughly 8x as much in maintenance.

[ November 09, 2002, 19:23: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

[Ed Kolis]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
There's nothing currently planned for RGD tech. If you have some appropriate suggestions, I would be willing to add them

How about the High Energy Minimizer - instead of increasing the power of a weak beam like the High Energy Magnifier, it decreases the power of a strong beam into something completely useless! "By means of multiply redundant electrical resistors and nineteen successive stages of 50% entropic-loss matter-to-energy conVersions, a fairly powerful energy beam is converted into a tiny pellet projected from a popgun not even strong enough to stun a mouse."

(BTW, why'd you post the same list of features twice? Did you complete a few and put X's by them? Didn't notice any differences at first glance...)

[Suicide Junkie]

I've been completing some, and adding others

[Pax]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
There's nothing currently planned for RGD tech. If you have some appropriate suggestions, I would be willing to add them

Here's one (note the Family Number and Pic Number are both left blank); if someone could put together a creditable Rube Goldberg looking component picture, it'd be absolutely hilarious (and I dunno, this thing MIGHT even be marginally useful in some situations ...):

code:

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Name                  := Goldberg Combat System

Description           := Multipurpose combat system, which "does it all, and then some" ...

Pic Num               := 

Tonnage Space Taken   := 40

Tonnage Structure     := 20

Cost Minerals         := 500

Cost Organics         := 500

Cost Radioactives     := 500

Vehicle Type          := Ship\Base

Supply Amount Used    := 5

Restrictions          := None

General Group         := Weapons

Family                := 

Roman Numeral         := 0

Custom Group          := 0

Number of Tech Req    := 1

Tech Area Req 1       := Rube Goldberg Designs

Tech Level Req 1      := 1

Number of Abilities   := 7

Ability 1 Type        := Long Range Scanner

Ability 1 Descr       := Scans shisp 1 sector away.

Ability 1 Val 1       := 1

Ability 1 Val 2       := 0

Ability 2 Type        := Phased Shield Generation

Ability 2 Descr       := Phased Shielding

Ability 2 Val 1       := 25

Ability 2 Val 2       := 0

Ability 3 Type        := Lay Mines

Ability 3 Descr       := Can deploy mines.

Ability 3 Val 1       := 1

Ability 3 Val 2       := 1

Ability 4 Type        := Combat To Hit Offense Plus

Ability 4 Descr       := Increases overall accuracy.

Ability 4 Val 1       := 1

Ability 4 Val 2       := 0

Ability 5 Type        := Combat Modifier Defense Plus

Ability 5 Descr       := Jams enemy targetting sensors.

Ability 5 Val 1       := 1

Ability 5 Val 2       := 0

Ability 6 Type        := Shield Regeneration

Ability 6 Descr       := Replenishes shields.

Ability 6 Val 1       := 5

Ability 6 Val 2       := 0

Ability 7 Type        := Solar Supply Generation

Ability 7 Descr       := Generates energy from solar winds

Ability 7 Val 1       := 10

Ability 7 Val 2       := 0

Weapon Type           := Direct Fire

Weapon Target         := Ships\Planets\Ftr\Sat\Drone

Weapon Damage At Rng  := 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5

Weapon Damage Type    := Skips All Shields

Weapon Reload Rate    := 4

Weapon Display Type   := Torp

Weapon Display        := 18

Weapon Modifier       := 0

Weapon Sound          := radbomb.wav

Weapon Family         := 15

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