New PDs and Thrusters |
Hidiho,
Right now I am actually reading the manual to Space Empires V 
and got some new Ideas from it
If you done it allready tell me, if not everyone is allowed to use them freely ( and then tell me
Again, I'll do no coding .. just suggesting
( maybe planning ^^ )
I allready posted a suggestion to Gideon for his GidMod but I think all of you should know about it
( and help pressure Gid into including it
GREAT JOB ON THE GIDMOD by the way .. it's my favorite atm
but now, less yapping more details
I want Organic PD. Or Crystal PD .. Just a bit more use for the Racial Trait Weapons
maybe for the time and psychic weapons too but i don't really like them
I think it puts a bit diversity in playing, because you don't have to research beam or blaster weapons just for pd.
Maybe even split the Trait Weapon Trees .. meaning you don't get whopping four different weapons from
researching Organic Weapons .. I admit its more expensive to get them in the first place, but that can be changed too
.. end to my first cent
second .. the idea I got by reading the manual ..
the turn rate of ships.
the bigger the hull, the slower the ship turns .. I have no posibility to counter that ( or does it rise if I put more engines in ? i didn't check that out, it just occured to me right now )
while I research the hulls they get bigger but the shiptype stays the same .. without having the
possibility to build the older versions of the hull ( which would kill the selecting process for the hull completely my small agile ships turn slower the more I research them ?!?!?
To counter this I thought of the Manouvering Thrusters .. additional Engines that add to the turn rate
and use a little supply in combat .. they are of no use elsewhere
that would give those pesky little Baseships a bit more of a spin .. and while we are at it,
why don't give them afterburners for a short time speed boost in combat
"Captain, we reached the fleet in just under 10 seconds .. but we are out of supplys to fire our main cannonns ^^ " .. famous last words
now lets discuss
another 2 cent for the great game of space empires
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What about putting the Racial Trait Techs in the standart techtree and make them more expensive the more of them get researched ..
for example
organic lvl 1 5,000 rp
crystal lvl 1 5,000 rp
temporal lvl 1 5,000 rp
i research organic, everything else gets more expensive ..
organic lvl 2 7,500 rp
crystal lvl 1 50,000 rp
temporal lvl 1 50,000 rp
i research crystal ...
organic lvl 2 7,500 rp
crystal lvl 2 75,000 rp
temporal lvl 1 500,000 rp
.... my only problem is .. what when I research them all at once in first round ( starting points
maybe one should mark them as "starting technologies" ...
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I always thought it odd that I had access to standard ship designs as an organic. Having organic-only ships should be part of the tech's built in advantage/disadvantage.
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Its the same for Crystalline, Vince. I think it has to do with having to research the Organic/Crystalline tech to gain access to anything to do with it. So, if you haven't researched anything in Crystalline/Organic tech then you wouldn't be able to build anything or expand/etc. Only really relevant in the beginning of games when you haven't researched it yet and thats what the normal hulls and stuff are for, methinks.
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I've always started with the tech anyway. I didn't think one was able to research them from scratch.
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You start with the tech but not researched (unless you use starting free research points). Like I will have the tech area Crystalline but I can't build a crystalline hull'ed ship or unit or any type of crystalline facility or weapon until I research it. First level gives Crystalline Technology and second level gives Crystalline Weapons (as tech areas to further research).
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I do use a certain number of starting points often.
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A ship's turn rate is based on tonnage. It does go down slightly as your hull gets bigger. The amount of engines has no effect at all on turn rate. It is simply a non formula data field in Vehiclesizes.txt
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I like the original post.
It makes great use of smilies.
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Thanks Vince :)
And I am with you on this, I think its a Race Decission to build either crystal, organic or normal ships so who cares if there is a little inconsistens in the beginning ?
as i did in dark nova 5 mod ( who puts a lots of new ship types in ) i got myself all the tech traits and started out in an all tech game, just to look at the possible techs
that was a really long list from which to chose a hull
so maybe yeah, it should be possible to use all hulls
but then I want a FILTER
but to get on topic again .. do you think its possible to invent a ship component that can make my ship turn faster ?
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Not without Aaron either coding in a new "turn rate modifier" ability or changing the hull turn rate field to allow formulas.
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I'm thinking too about letting racial tech be more "standard tech" replacing.
About turn rate, I think that it's not possible to make it depending on component/tech level. But I'm not 100% sure.