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Thanks Atrocities, I agree with your plan for the monster Borg. If anyone else wants to use the monster Borg, they can. One small thing: I think I made an error while making the AI General file. The Adv Traits may be in the wrong order. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
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I wasn't able to go through the entire thread of this discussion, but I wanted to know: is that normal that the Klingon Advanced Cloak II (prevents level 6 for all detection mode) is better than the Romulan Advanced Cloak II (which prevents level 5 scans)?
Doesn't seem right. [ April 22, 2004, 01:21: Message edited by: von_toaster ] |
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It has nothing to do with Atrocities love of the Klingon race http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif [ April 23, 2004, 02:14: Message edited by: BlackRose ] |
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Thanks BlackRose for helping. Also the Klingon cloak can be beaten by one component. Finding it should be easy enough. Hint - Gravitational
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Has anyone made any EMP files for the neutrals or minor races. I am trying to plug a few into a single player game of mine.
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If you can even make neutral AI empires...
You can make them yourself easily. Start a new game, and have no normal AI empires, just neutrals. Set number of AI players to high, set racial points to whatever you want. Add an empire for human players. Then, hit start game. After it is started, go to the Options menu, then Players. Toggle all AIs to human control (the only option in there). Hit end turn. Save empire file of AI one, and so on. You can do this for regular AI empires fine, but I am not sure if you can even have empire files for neutrals. You can not select a "neutral race" shipset when creating an empire... |
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Here is the latest info on the next update.
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Hi there,
I ve a question about the armor Ratings - why is armor so weak (damage resistance)? Specifically the Borg Regeneration Armor - it has Damage Resistance of 7. But one of its abilities is to restore 30 damage points? Am I wrong or will this only happen when the enemy uses armor skipping weapons? btw: keep up the good work - its the best MOD !!! |
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Yes, Armor III (leaky!) with tonnage of 10 and dmg resistance of 6 is very unusial. It has one of the smallest chances to be damaged amongst other comps (most part of viable comps have greater dmg res).
Compare it with shields: 700 hp for size of 40 kt at lvl 10. |
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It has nothing to do with Atrocities love of the Klingon race http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Funny I came to this topic to ask that very question! The answer does make sence. Should have never doubted Atrocities. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif |
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The armor was stepped down and made on par with the reduced weapon damage.
I will double check the Borg settings and reduce them as well. Basically armor should never be stronger than shields and should not provide that much protection. In star trek shields are the primary defense not armor. Armor is only mentioned on the defiant and really no where else except Enterprise. So armor is an earily use component but out dated by shields. |
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Leaky armor MUST have more hit points than average internals, or else it will be hit after the internals most of the time. 6 HP is not enough by far. Maybe 60. Keep in mind that shields are a lot stronger than leaky armor, as they provide a barrier that must be penetrated before real damage begins to occur, whereas the leaky armor does not provide this 100% wall. It should generally have more hit points than shields provide because of this and the way that damage to components is assigned (components with more hit points have a disproportionally greater chance of being randomly selected to be damaged when a ship suffers damage), or else it is far too weak.
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When I left the armor with the high hp, it was far to powerful and not providing the effect of leaky armor that I wanted. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif I simply could not get it to work correctly as leaky armor. So I reduced it to its current value and now armor seems to work ok. My not be true leaky armor, but at least it is working.
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I only took a quick peek, but if that is the case, then it makes most of the armor in this mod worse than filling your ship with a cheap component to absorb hits.
I can take a closer look tomorrow night once exams are done with for the year! [ April 27, 2004, 18:08: Message edited by: Captain Kwok ] |
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Ok, give me a solution that I can use and it shall be employed.
I have considered bumping up Armor to these levels. Armor I - III 10/15/20 Emissive Armor I - III 15/20/25 Scattering Armor I - III 15/20/25 Federation Ablative Armor I - III 10/15/20 Borg Regenerative Armor I - III 10/15/20 Breen Organic Armor I - III 10/15/20 Cardassian Kelindide Armor I - III 10/15/20 Dominion Varethiel Armor I - III 10/15/20 Tholian Crystalline Armor I - V 10/10/15/15/20 Pirate Hull Armor I - III 10/15/20 |
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So I need to lower the other components structure in order to bring the Leaky shields back into play and keep the Armor values where they are currently?
/me blinks twice and takes a deep breath. Well ok. |
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What would be a good average for tonnage structure? 10% of current? (300 would become 30)
I looked at the file and most of the components are 20 or less in tonnage structure with many being 5. If I were to drop those that were 20 down to 5 or even down to 10 would that help? I have play tested the mod and the current settings work well. Armor gives a solid bonus (Hit before any other Component) and the SIF also shores up the ship well. The negative and offensive side of me wants to yell at you for suggesting these changes so late in the game, but that is most likely because I am tired. Please just take a look at the component files and offer a good alternative that can be use. I will send the current and new armor spec files to both of you for review if you have the time. Thanks. /me Goes and yells at the wall. [ April 27, 2004, 19:02: Message edited by: Atrocities ] |
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If you use the standard 1:1 HP:kT ratio for the internals, then use an armor ratio of 1.5:1 to 6:1 HP:kT for low to high tech armor. For shields you might want a range of 2:1 to 10:1 or something like that. Special armors you'd want to be close to shields in HP:kT performance, i.e. ablative armor might max out at 8:1. You could even make it equal to shields with the penalty that it needs to be repair when damaged.
If you are using a ratio of 0.5:1 HP:kT for internals, then divide by 2 the above suggestions. I wouldn't recommend dropping lower than that for internals. Fyron's Adamant mod has a decent armor setup - although his values are higher than suggested since his mod treats armor as a viable alternative to shields. The Star Trek universe is shield dependent, hence the values I suggested. [ April 27, 2004, 20:38: Message edited by: Captain Kwok ] |
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A point I should make before Fyron stops by is that the reason for dropping internals to less than 1HP/kT structure, is to make ships very fragile once they have no armor or shields - which is consistent with what we see on Trek. It also helps to encourages better "leakiness" by increasing the chance that damage that bypasses armor will be sufficient enough to take out an internal rather than just apply partial damage.
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What does that point have to do with me Kwok? As long as the leaky armors have a significantly higher amount of hit points than the internals do, it works out.
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Atrocities: Everything seems fine to me. you could just keep it as it is for a while, maybe save the armor balancing issue for a different time. Take a break!
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I see what is going on. Atrocities has his internals set to less to usually 1 or 2 HP per 10kT component. This is likely the reason why his previous armor seemed too powerful since the chances of hitting an internal through the leaky armor was remote simply based on chance.
Atrocities, you can improve this by bumping up your internal structures rather than decreasing the armor strength. Also note, some internals are rated better than most armor (see Colony Module) and that might cause some kooky effects that are unintended. |
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Typo or bug: for the big fighters, a warning that a maximum of 6 engines appears as only 5 engines are installed.
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Can any one tell me what this says.
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babelfish.altavista.com said this:
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It means:
"I've decided to make a poll (why not?). And the question is: what SE4Gold modification you are playing/have played?" To clear things, it's my post on russian forum, devoted to space strategies in space empires section. Questions? edit: kill the typos! [ April 29, 2004, 09:05: Message edited by: aiken ] |
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I started work on the armor/shields/structure for the components. It turned out a bit more extensive than I thought, but it's looking good. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif
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Also, Atrocities can you explain why in the world that the Romulan Quantum Singularity drive has a long range scanning ability???
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Atrocities, I have been trying to reach you by email and I haven't heard a thing, hope all is well. Shalom
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IMO you should always try to stick with modding what makes sense, rather than random non-sensical technobabble from some particular episode. Otherwise, most components will end up being able to do pretty much everything... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif
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I have a question, what would cause a "file not found" error after you click on the end turn button, but if you choose the race to be controlled by the AI, then I do not get this error, so I'm confused.
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Pirate issues:
- Some problems on the ground troops and shock troops. It seems that we can only install shock troops on Troops, but this components is 10kT big. The other races have ground troops 1kT big. - The Tech Description for the Pirate Technology mentions Tholians, not Pirates. |
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Just waiting on CK to finish the revision of the component file before finalizing the final update and posting it.
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Atrocities, I have decided to attempt a new Star Trek Mod using the STM as the base. If you or anyone else would like to look at the first beta Version, let me know. The first beta Version should be ready in a week or two. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
Some ideas that will be in this mod: The Borg as monsters. AI design creation files made to be more generic. Weapons on all types of ships. New ship sizes for all races Smaller number of races. New armor system. |
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Sounds good TNZ. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
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2600.....Just had too http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif
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I don't know if anyone else has noticecd, ,but the Federation is almost invincible with Ablative Armor III. It ignores any damage that is 30 or less, and I have yet to encounter an AI weapon (aside frrom the monsters' weapons) that does more than 30 damage. I even have fleets flying around w/o shields just pummeling the enemy, and i don't have to worry about my ships at all! IS this the way it is supposed to be?
Also, there is something odd with Quantum Torpedoes. The specs show that they do more damage as a Large Base mount than as a Massive base mount.... is this right? |
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