Tech interrelation mod.

-Tied PD weapons with their related tech. Bomblets are related to missile and small weapons, point-defense cannons to projectile weapons, flak to projectile weapons levels.

-Tied engines to chemistry and contruction levels (max 10, 4 levels for free).

-Tied bridge, crew quarters, life support, fighter cockpit, troop cockpit, fighter life support to construction. Each levels increase the structure kt (mean they can take more damage) while not increasing cost.

-Tied Sensors to physics, Computer cores to computers.

Weapons will be a pains to tie, they are so numberous it's insane...

The increase in internal structure is small, nothing like the armor rate, and since techs are inter-related in my mod, you need to raise levels in several techs before your devices level up. Nothing game breaking. I did not make it far enough in the game to play with the regenerator, i barely used shields .

I have yet to figure out how to change them in a meaningful way. I don't want to end up with ships that can cross whole systems in a turn or be that sluggish that they barelly make a few hexes even with all their engines on. I haven found a way to change acceleration in combat yet...

As for updates. I tied several devices with levels in biology, industry, construction, military science, physics etc... You can research a field 4-5 levels before you need to level the theorical along. I could also make it so you can't continue research before you reach a certain level in some requirement (like you can't reseach more beams level until you raise more level in physics).

That i have already done, small ships need less engines to move around while the larger ones needs more (work well, but i may need to change the scripts for the AI). This also help larger ships because it gives them more devices to soak damage when the armor is penetrated.

All taken care of. While you may still have level 20-100 in most technologies, the devices on ships never raise that high since they are tied to theorical and sometimes to other related techs level. I left the high level in because it unlock new techs over time, wich is a nice feature. As for structural integrity, i still need to ballance it a bit because it makes the ships slower since more mass affect acceleration while making the ship harder to kill. I think i can fix it with the engines somehow...

The game consider it weight, the acceleration is calculated from the structure KT and not from the other. Though i tryied to see if it mattered in game terms but seem the acceleration isn't calculated at all... But the extra KT i've given to my ships seem to make them last a bit longer in combat, though they still get crippled quickly.

It's done, just need to package it properly (i don't know how to make it a stand alone mod yet, i just overright the original file). I should have a link tomorrow.

Damn, it was quite a job...

devnullicus wrote:

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Nice, i'll try that.

Edit : very useful, i even found typos... I may have found something else to mod before release though. I haven't got a picture for the mod either...

I found that the game has a lot of typos from the devs themselves. They also have made quite a few mistakes in assigning max level techs and components can reach, like a tech that can reach levels way above the devices/facilities related to them or the tech have too little levels compared to the devices it should provide for... So i'm fixing thoses while making my mod. Though i hope they won't change the code too much in 1.14 or else i might just be wasting my time coding this.

Yeah, it's where i should look for. Everything else seem to work, but my changes to the engines don't...

I tryied to reuse existing tech and give them some use. I did not cap each reseach tree themselves (i could) but how the devices show up in the tree. There are so many possibilities, i just try to not to make every tech reach the same level at once, giving some flavor in ship designs...

That's how i understand it should work, but in practice it seem to be based on how many active engines you have relative to a multiplier (the one that allow me to have a 6 engine frigate move as fast as a 8 engine destroyer).

I'm still updating my mod and fixing it's bugs. Everything seem to work, but now it's the problem of making the AI/Minister make use of my changes. I modded the number of engines on each ships, it works fine, but the autobuild don't do it right, and the minister don't seem to be able to make a ship (but can make some units, shipyard base and satellites)... I did put a minimum and maximum number of engines, work fine for the player but i wonder if the AI can use this. Really need to check the scripts...

Edit : Argn, so much time i wasted trying to sort things when it can be changed in the settings... Why the option isn't where we need it?

I'm too enthusiastic, i mod too much . If i don't stop myself, it will be a completly new game before i can even try it ! I modded the scripts and got way farther than what Captain Kwok did (started from his files, but they are so heavily changed very litle of his work remain). I made new class of ships and made sure the AI has some more variety of ships to throw at us, not just a bunch of ships with of different size with the same loadout. They are more specialised, with bigger ships using more of the bigger hardware % wise and filling the left over space with secondary weapons. Now i just have to make sure all this complicated change actually work in game (and refrain from modding it even further ).

At some point, after looking at how the AI does things, i realised my whole mod concept would not work. The AI can't understand the concept of researching several tech for one device, and seem to be able to use only a few specific devices in it's design, so the inter-relation might jam the AI...

So i started over from scratch, rebuilding the game from the ground up. My new concept is more stremlined and is not limited by how the devs planned the game originally. If something bugs me, i change it. But i do respect the backstory of each race and try to make the game reflect that. The tech availiable at start will vary from race to race, some will start with high tech stuff while others with low tech ones. There is no need to research the low tech junk if you start with better stuff, and switching to more powerful tech is optionnal. I'm still in the planning stage but my new concept is way more thrilling than the last, but it will take some time before i can even test my changes. At least this game is modular so it doesn't mind features that don't work yet .