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Pax, you still there? You're not discouraged, are you?

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No, not at all. Sorry I didn't get the readme done and a file uploaded ... but a friend JUST closed (a month early) on a new condominium, so I've been helping arrange for the place to be painted and planning some general improvements/repairs at the same time, for the past couple days.

I'll resume working on a good readme, and maybe some more additions/tweaks, tonight; I should be able to get a lot more work done on it this weekend, too.

Meanwhile, I'll go pop a quick-fix Version Online ASAP, with a corrected VehicleSizes.txt (including a Colony Ship hull).

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Upload complete.

My next project is to write a readme, while going back through the components.txt data file to make sure I want to stick with the tweaks I'd done before (as well as rediscover wth they WERE so I can list 'em in the readme, lol).

[ August 01, 2003, 00:35: Message edited by: Pax ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">No problem - helping your friend move is definitely more important. I'll check it out and see how it plays.

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I might be interested in joining this game, what are the basic changes made in the data files and to accomplish what?

...and yes, I'm sure I could dig this info up somewhere but I'm going to sleep now and hope to have an answer to read for breakfast. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

Re: Small Ships Mod discussion
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">This isn't a game, per se; it's a new mod, one that's a spinoff form the idea that spawned the "Attack of the Ankle-Biters" thread. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

The changes, so far, are mainly to limit ships to the smaller end of the scale, play with engines-per-move a bit (so that some later hulls are SMALLER, but in return inherently FASTER, than their predecessors), and try out osme of the less-radical changes for weapons which were discussed in the Stock Balance thread.

Not all changes to weapons are properly documented in the data files at present (I believe I forgot to STATE that the Graviton Hellbore skips armor, for example), and I am working on a new Beta 3 Version, complete with a readme documenting the changes (at least in summary format); I hope to have that Version ready for release by the end of this weekend.

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Regardless of what type of planet I start out on, the game keeps giving me Gas Giant Colonization Tech - do you think Aaron hardcoded something to look for Col Tech in Applied Sciences?

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hmm. That is odd (and thank you for trying lots of things out -- that one I'd've not found myself, for quite a while -- I almost always PLAY gas giant races).

I'll do some testing tomorrow (got to get some sleep soonish), and try and figure that one out.

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No. It gives you the technology necessary to be able to build the Last colony module appropriate to your race that is in the components file. If you place multi-type colony modules (such as Gas + Rock) after the normal ones, you will get those instead. But if they are placed before the normal ones, the AI will never be able to use them. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hmm. THAT sucks; it means I'll have to choose between the multi-colony module and humans-only play. Damn.