Re: Carrier Battles Mod
 

Actually, I would set it up so each fighter bay can basicly hold one fighter of the corresponding highest available tech for the bay. That way, you can have two doctorines, either disgorge all your fighters at once, or relly on larger fighter numbers being disgorged in waves.

That is basicly the way it is in my mod, my friend I was playing against developed a tactic where he used massive baseships with hordes of fighters, but instead of ever seeing combat he used long range fighters entered a system launched all his fighters and then various targets in system, with his carriers never even seeing combat.

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Also: in regards to scaling components up and only having certain base components, I love it!

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Which materials are those? They need to be corrected, because they are wrong. Geoschmo is quite correct.

SE5 will have user definable damage.

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Yeah, that's the thing. Suppose I'm playing standard SE4, and I'm playing with fighters. I try to make attack fighters and interceptors with max engines and 1, maybe 2 tiny antiproton beams. The CAP fighters have the rocket pods, and that leaves space for only one engine, so they stay closer to the carrier. *SIGH* It doesn't matter really, in standard SE4, its hard to get enough fighters on a carrier -- much less enough of two types, and then they combine into groups at random.

But if you mod is inroducing new weapons, engines and propulsion rules, you could fine tune this some more. Give fighters specific anti-ship weapons, and specific anti-fighter weapons, to try to give them individual roles.

Another idea, when you get a halfway working mod. Setup a PBW game around it. That way it stays fresh in people's minds. For example, like with the small ships mod.

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I would also add combat to hit bonuses for smaller ships (escort - destroyer) to represent small antifighter gunboats that support the fighter screens.

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If I remeber correctly it was the FAQ/instructions for the SE4 Modder by DavidG. I don't remeber seeing it in the Modding Manual, and if you say it isn't in there, then it probably isn't...well that sucks...I'm defintely going to have to wait till SEV comes out then...Bah!!!!

Kana

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I would like to play this mod...someday. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

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An update:

Added the cannon mounts. From 20mm to 100mm in 5 steps. -10% accuracy per level, variable increases in damage power up to +70% for the biggie. The biggest two get a range increase as a bonus.
Weapon size scales as radius squared, so you get the whole gamut from 2kt guns to 50kt guns.

Been working on some scale issues between C&C, engines and cargo requirements.
More work still to be done, especially on balancing damage vs shields/armor on the 4-way fighters/ships interaction.

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Just for that, I would never use the larger mounts unless I had a ridiculously high combat bonuses advantage over all my enemies. With the way combat bonuses work in SEIV, that is much too large a penalty for the larger mounts to be viable unless they give a damage bonus of around +200% to +300% at a minimum for the largest. Yes, that's triple to quadruple damage/space, and even then the largest might not be useful.

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Keep in mind that the ranges are only 2-4 for these capital ship weapons. The zero-point will be in the middle, too.

So the 20 and 40 mm guns should have some chance of hitting fighters, and the 100mm gun should have about 40% to-hit even at the doubled max range.
Also, the additional punch of the big guns will be more effective than it looks, since the captial ships will be using leaky shields. The smaller guns will end up doing no damage to most capital ships, and much of the medium guns' damage will be negated.