A mod idea :)

Starhawk · #1 August 22nd, 2006, 12:37 PM

Okay I was thinking to make this more realistic especially considering the tonnages of the ships (10+ megaton components plus probobly hundreds of megatons in hull weight) I would make it so that you can only build starships of the larger sizes in oribtal shipyards.

My questions on this are:

1: Is there anyway to make it so you HAVE to build a certain hull size from a certain shipyard type?

2: If there is is there anyway the AI would be smart enough to know it has to build orbital yards or would it be dumb enough to build destroyers the whole game?

3: If it's NOT possible is there anyway I could still execute this style change without it hurting gameplay?

Ed Kolis · #2 August 22nd, 2006, 01:24 PM

1. You can't make it so you HAVE to, but you can make it EXTREMELY inconvenient not to - say you want highliners to be buildable only in space - then give planetary space yards 1 build rate in rads and make only highliners use rads to build! Or just have "gradations" of spaceyards which have vastly different build rates and costs, so it's impractical to use a micro yard to build a highliner but wasteful to use a mega yard to build a scout!

2. AI tags perhaps?

3. I don't think you'll reach this point - SE4 is quite moddable and the community is quite innovative

Starhawk · #3 August 22nd, 2006, 02:49 PM

1. SO basically make it so that the orbital yards are the only thing that can build to X amount of say Radition while the small hulls dont use or need RADS at all.

The problem is that don't all weapons require a certain amount of Radioactives when bought/resupplied?

Phoenix-D · #4 August 22nd, 2006, 03:05 PM

Not unless you make them need it, no.

Starhawk · #5 August 22nd, 2006, 04:19 PM

Well see now I've actually come to a slight problem, I am unsure of precisely WHERE the tech tree should start for each race.

I mean if I went the route of the original SEIV tech tree then we could have some issues as hra-thrall have NO armor technology and swarmers have no ship to ship combat weaponry besides that of their "fighters".

And since the Union of Man is a missile heavy nation they would utterly dominate the other races early on as they have the best fastest and deadliest missiles.

So I am not quite sure where to start the tech.

Any suggestions based upon the description I've given of each race so far?