.com.unity Forums - New tech mod plan

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by jimbob:
[b]While I have yet to *try* your mod, it sounds great to me, and I look forward to putting it on my machine at home.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Wait til beta 5, at least http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif Big changes.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Just wondering if you'd like some more ideas on new technologies. If so, please read on, if not... well I'll never know if you read this will I http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif[quote]

1) Reflective Shields
- reflect incoming 'beam weapon' damage back at the attacker. Sort of ablative armor with some punch.
- excess incoming damage is then applied to the defenders' normal shields, armor, etc.
- It seems a good idea to limit the power of these shields a little.. only 50% of the energy is reflected back? a lower to-hit chance? Make the component expensive? 1 weapon blocked/reflective shield generator?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Can't be done currently. Aaron (i.e. Malfador, the SE4 coder) would need to hard code this sort of thing in.
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>* General Tech Tree? Crystal Tech Tree?

2) Reciprocal Capacitors
- component holds a certain level of energy in specialized capacitors (200 - 300 pts)
- when an attacker's (direct fire) weapon successfully hits the defender, the capacitors energy travels back down the attacker's beam to do reciprocal damage.
- chance to hit should be 100% regardless of any/all modifiers because the capacitor is using the incoming shot as a tracer... sort of like lightning from the sky following the tracer from the ground.
- firing rate could be dependent upon the number of engines on board (ie fire rate = 30/# of engines) This would encourage the use of smaller ships like the cruiser which can carry more engines than the mega ships like the dreadnought.
* General Tech Tree? Energy Manipulation Tech Tree?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>See above http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon9.gif

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>3) Chlorophyll Shields
- a shielding that converts a certain amount of (beam) damage into extra combat movement and/or supplies. Excess damage is then applied to normal shields, etc.
* Biological Manipulation Tech Tree<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Ditto..

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>4) Spore Pods
- crew safety pods. Crew held in suspended animation in spore pods when their ship explodes in combat.
- The crew gains experience from their ordeal.
- When the crew is rescued, their experience points are shared between the remaining ships due to their re-assignment.
- due to their very small size, the spores cannot be shot by enemies? Only destroyed by pt.def. weapons? Act as mines/satelites - that is, they stay in space until rescued or destroyed.
* Bio Tech Tree. There could be Crystal or Temporal equivalents<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Can't be done.

Anyone can feel free to run with these ideas, modify or change 'em. Don't bother crediting me, that's not necessary.

If I could, I would. Can't be done unfortuately. That would take something more on the order of a Half-Life mod, not just the editing of text files SE4 has. You can do a lot, but you've got set boundries that can only be stretched a bit.

Phoenix-D