Questions Re: My Mod

[PvK]

Most of the "good or bad" questions are simply matters of personal preference. That being the case, I think things that are different from the unmodded game are interesting, and thus usually "good" since they would offer a change.

1. No
2. No.
3. In general yes. As SJ said, max levels remove research from the game. However, not necessarily. If the game is meant to represent action on a scale where no major developments would emerge through research to affect the conflict, then that's ok. Also, it is one (though not the only) way to remove the issue with the unmodded game where more colonies means more ability to research, which always seemed at least slightly wrong to me.
4. Sounds good/interesting.
5. Sounds good/interesting, though as SJ said, it should be considered a major effect for balance.
6. Not really. You could of course have a ship that could destroy the planet and rebuild it, which would give you a random atmosphere change.
7. Sounds good/interesting.
8. Sounds good/interesting.
9. One.
10. Good.

PvK

[Starhawk]

Is it possible to make a single weapon that both destroys and creates a planet in a single shot?

[Suicide Junkie]

You can make a component that does both, but it won't be related to the weapon properties, and the player will only get to pick one function to use at a time.

[Starhawk]

Anyway to set it to destroy it's self after two uses instead of one?

Oh and I've tried loading my "Terrenesi Tech" racial trait and some of my Weapons tech in the tech areas, plus the components into the devnull mod yet when I try to load it it says.

"Can not load blablahblah data/components.txt" How do I fix this so that I can test out the tech?

[Suicide Junkie]

Starhawk said:
Anyway to set it to destroy it's self after two uses instead of one?

Oh and I've tried loading my "Terrenesi Tech" racial trait and some of my Weapons tech in the tech areas, plus the components into the devnull mod yet when I try to load it it says.

"Can not load blablahblah data/components.txt" How do I fix this so that I can test out the tech?

You've got a mystery bug in there somewhere...

Try adding a double-blank line to the file (start in the middle) and do a binary search to find the offending component. (If the game loads, the bug is after the blank, if not, it is before)

I'd check the merge point of the two sets of components. Odds are that's where the problem is. If not, try the binary search until you get a more detailed error, or nail down the bad component.

[Starhawk]

How do I do a binary search? (I know sounds stupid for a guy trying to make a mod but I'm learning how to script in components and race traits by making the mod so please bare with me )