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Wow, where to start?

I went with drone mines because I just plain do not care for the way the stock game handles mines. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif You have it right, no strategic movement, combat movement only, and no drone supply usage per turn. When first researched mines are just warheads with thrusters but as you research higher levels you are able to put weapons and other combat equipment on them. I like the strategic options this gives a player.

Sats are done the same way but on fighter hulls so they still stack, although I am thinking of changing this.

What I did for the homeworld facilities is create three different "city" facilities. The first one produces and builds with minerals, the second one produces and builds with organics, and the third one produces and builds with radioactives. Add to those resupply, spaceport, research, storage, and maintenace reduction abilities and the game fills a homeworld with these cities in almost the same ratio as it would with stock facities (it gives an extra rad facity for some reason.) I put the three value reduction abilities on the organic facility, 2% for each of the trhee resources. This way if a player decides to scrap the organic facility in order to get rid of the value reduction he can not build anything that requires organics. Every hull in the game has been changed to require some organics. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/evil.gif

Here is the entries from Facility.txt:
<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>Name := HW Infrastructure (m)
Description := .
Facility Group := Infrastructure
Facility Family := 55
Roman Numeral := 0
Restrictions := None
Pic Num := 178
Cost Minerals := 5000000
Cost Organics := 1000000
Cost Radioactives := 2500000
Number of Tech Req := 1
Tech Area Req 1 := Cargo
Tech Level Req 1 := 1
Number of Abilities := 10
Ability 1 Type := Spaceport
Ability 1 Descr := Acts as a spaceport for this system.
Ability 1 Val 1 := 0
Ability 1 Val 2 := 0
Ability 2 Type := Reduced Maintenance Cost - System
Ability 2 Descr := A well-stocked and maintained Space Port reduces maintenance costs for all ships in the system by 10%.
Ability 2 Val 1 := -10
Ability 2 Val 2 := 0
Ability 3 Type := Point Generation - Intelligence
Ability 3 Descr := 100 Intelligence points are produced by heavy trade activity.
Ability 3 Val 1 := 100
Ability 3 Val 2 := 0
Ability 4 Type := Resource Generation - Minerals
Ability 4 Descr := Generates 500 minerals each turn.
Ability 4 Val 1 := 500
Ability 4 Val 2 := 0
Ability 5 Type := Point Generation - Research
Ability 5 Descr := Generates 400 Research points each turn.
Ability 5 Val 1 := 400
Ability 5 Val 2 := 0
Ability 6 Type := Space Yard
Ability 6 Descr := Can construct with 200 minerals each turn.
Ability 6 Val 1 := 1
Ability 6 Val 2 := 150
Ability 7 Type := Supply Generation
Ability 7 Descr := Functions as a resupply depot.
Ability 7 Val 1 := 0
Ability 7 Val 2 := 0
Ability 8 Type := Resource Storage - Mineral
Ability 8 Descr := Can store 2000 minerals for an empire.
Ability 8 Val 1 := 2000
Ability 8 Val 2 := 0
Ability 9 Type := Resource Storage - Organics
Ability 9 Descr := Can store 2000 organics for an empire.
Ability 9 Val 1 := 2000
Ability 9 Val 2 := 0
Ability 10 Type := Resource Storage - Radioactives
Ability 10 Descr := Can store 2000 radioactives for an empire.
Ability 10 Val 1 := 2000
Ability 10 Val 2 := 0

Name := HW Infrastructure (o)
Description := .
Facility Group := Infrastructure
Facility Family := 56
Roman Numeral := 0
Restrictions := None
Pic Num := 178
Cost Minerals := 5000000
Cost Organics := 1000000
Cost Radioactives := 2500000
Number of Tech Req := 1
Tech Area Req 1 := Cargo
Tech Level Req 1 := 1
Number of Abilities := 7
Ability 1 Type := Reduced Maintenance Cost - System
Ability 1 Descr := A well-stocked and maintained Space Port reduces maintenance costs for all ships in the system by 10%.
Ability 1 Val 1 := -10
Ability 1 Val 2 := 0
Ability 2 Type := Resource Generation - Organics
Ability 2 Descr := Generates 1500 organics each turn.
Ability 2 Val 1 := 1500
Ability 2 Val 2 := 0
Ability 3 Type := Space Yard
Ability 3 Descr := Can construct with 1500 organicss each turn.
Ability 3 Val 1 := 2
Ability 3 Val 2 := 1500
Ability 4 Type := Planet - Change Minerals Value
Ability 4 Descr := Mineral value of the planet drops by 2% each year.
Ability 4 Val 1 := -2
Ability 4 Val 2 := 0
Ability 5 Type := Planet - Change Organics Value
Ability 5 Descr := Organic value of the planet drops by 2% each year.
Ability 5 Val 1 := -2
Ability 5 Val 2 := 0
Ability 6 Type := Planet - Change Radioactives Value
Ability 6 Descr := Radioactive value of the planet drops by 2% each year.
Ability 6 Val 1 := -2
Ability 6 Val 2 := 0
Ability 7 Type := Component Repair
Ability 7 Descr := Can repair 1 component each turn.
Ability 7 Val 1 := 1
Ability 7 Val 2 := 0

Name := HW Infrastructure (r)
Description := .
Facility Group := Infrastructure
Facility Family := 56
Roman Numeral := 0
Restrictions := None
Pic Num := 178
Cost Minerals := 5000000
Cost Organics := 1000000
Cost Radioactives := 2500000
Number of Tech Req := 1
Tech Area Req 1 := Cargo
Tech Level Req 1 := 1
Number of Abilities := 4
Ability 1 Type := Reduced Maintenance Cost - System
Ability 1 Descr := A well-stocked and maintained Space Port reduces maintenance costs for all ships in the system by 10%.
Ability 1 Val 1 := -10
Ability 1 Val 2 := 0
Ability 2 Type := Resource Generation - Radioactives
Ability 2 Descr := Generates 1500 radioactives each turn.
Ability 2 Val 1 := 1500
Ability 2 Val 2 := 0
Ability 3 Type := Space Yard
Ability 3 Descr := Can construct with 1750 radioactives each turn.
Ability 3 Val 1 := 3
Ability 3 Val 2 := 1750
Ability 4 Type := Component Repair
Ability 4 Descr := Can repair 1 component each turn.
Ability 4 Val 1 := 1
Ability 4 Val 2 := 0 </pre><hr />