Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
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It is unpredictable at the modding stage. You have no idea what other types of bonuses a ship is going to have when you design the values of the ECM components, for example. Sure, you can guess, but you end up with different levels of effects with your proposed system depending on what else is affecting the ships. This is what makes it essentially unpredictable.
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Um, Fyron, it's not quite so unpredictable as you think. As SJ said, an ECM-50% will halve your chance of getting hit. Regardless of any other factors. Period. If you had a 50% chance to get hit, it would drop to 25%. If you had a 10% chance to get hit, it would drop to 5%. And a CS-200% would either double your chance of hitting or halve your chance of missing (there is a difference, read the Stars! manual
), regardless of any other factors. How is that any more unpredictable than the current system, where a 40% to-hit bonus could be a big boon (if your tohit is 10%) or useless (if you have a Religious Talisman)?
More ideas...
Resource converters that can only convert specific types of resources, so you could have a "Radioactives Denaturing Facility" which converts radioactives into ordinary minerals but won't work at all on minerals or organics... and why not treat population as a resource for this purpose, so you could have a "Soylent Green Processing Plant" which converts people into organics (or minerals or energy or whatever your race is made of), but at a cost of unrest?
Racial traits that have more than one effect on the game, and racial traits that have a certain effect a specific ability or family of components/facilities/etc. without having to make duplicate entries for them - so I could create a "Natural Merchants" trait that not only eliminated the need for spaceports but doubled the carrying capacity of cargo modules, or a "Regenerating Shields" trait like in Stars! - all shields are 50% stronger and regenerate 10% per round, but internal components and armor have only 65% the normal hitpoints. (slightly modified from Stars! since Stars! treats armor differently)