Re: Plague bomb..
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">How about
level one - range one
level two - range two
...

That will keep it in tune with WP weapons (sort of)

Re: Plague bomb..
 

I ran a test on plagues to see how much damage they do. Here are my results of each level over 5 turns:

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">code:</font><hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;">Level: 1 2 3 4 5
11 60 108 178 340
11 60 100 179 321
12 59 109 151 348
10 52 111 154 321
10 58 115 169 323</pre><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">So, here are some proposed ranges that fit the data I have gathered:
Level 1: 10-15 pop/turn
Level 2: 50-60 pop/turn
Level 3: 100-120 pop/turn
Level 4: 150-180 pop/turn
Level 5: 320-350 pop/turn

=0=

I think there is a bug with range 1 weapons targeting planets that prevents them from hitting the planet from some (or all) sides... was it fixed in 1.84 or does it remain?

[ June 30, 2003, 21:27: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

Re: Plague bomb..
 

Numbers! Thank you, Fyron.

Does a plague wear off before everybody dies?

If a Large Storage Expert AI Homeworld on the FQM has a full population (15B) and it is hit with a level 1 Plague, will it remain Plagued throughout the rest of the game, easily able to recover the lost population every round but never inclined to cure the plague?

Re: Plague bomb..
 

Plagues Last until they are cured, even after all pop is dead.

Plagued planets have 0% reproduction rate, and get large happiness penalties each turn they are plagued.

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i think there is some random chance to 'miraculously' find a cure to the plague on the planet. or was it only in se3?

Re: Plague bomb..
 

Was that even in SE3, or just as myth? I have never seen or heard anything of the sort for SE4. There is a cure plague ability for events that is unused, so it is possible to mod such an event in, but the chances of it happening to a plagued planet (unless it is hard-coded to only happen to them) are slim to nil.

[ June 30, 2003, 22:50: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

Re: Plague bomb..
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">No longer true, once the population has all expired, the planet reverts to uncolonized and may be recolonized by anyone without fear of residual contagin.

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I am still immune! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Aren't they more interesting as a viable weapon?

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Aren't they more interesting as a viable weapon?</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">In normal SE bombs are just fine as now. I am talking about Proportions and AIC. Population is basically scaled down by a factor of 10 at least. 100M+ damage from plague is just too high - there are few planets with such numbers even late in the game.

The inability of system-wide buildings to stop the plague is very bad thing in AIC !