Could someone please post the address for the latest version available then because what I have got is nowhere near able to do what youre claiming here.
Fyron. You say,
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What else is unnecessarily complicated? The armor system is just right.
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And then a little later you say,
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Structural supports and medium armor can probably go. Medium armor is emulatable by just mixing light and heavy armor. Structural supports are either fairly useless or really gamey if someone wants to add 10000 of them to a ship. Not the most effective use of their time, but still unnecessary...
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I have just played a 260 round game aginst 5 AI's with all research done, on hard. The AI has absolutly no idea how to build a competetive design. It built nothing over 300kt, almost always had an illegal number of primary armour components, had no 'stock' armour at all and there wasnt a structural support to be seen anywhere.
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The AI can build just as accurate and effective designs as a human player can through the use of AI tags. Simplifying the system by removing many types of armor would not benefit the AI any.
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The AI isnt using the armour you have now anyway. Simplify it and make it race based and the AI will be more competetive and interesting. I'm not totally sure on this but arent there a limited number of AI tags. Gonna use them up pretty quick this way when they could be saved for other things.
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And those posters were misinformed. Other than possibly the tech gridded nature, it is not unnecessarily complicated at all. As SJ said, it just requires a different way of looking at it. This is a mod, not the stock game, so players _should_ be expecting it to be different...
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Were they misinformed or did they have a different opinion...
Never really played the stock game so I dont know how that works. I bought SEIV to play the B5 and Star Trek mods. The Star Trek mod by Atrocities (and others) is outstanding. The races are distinct enough to make the game interesting and the tech tree is not over engineered. The Federation cant use Borg armour and the Cardassian's cant use Klingon cloaking devices etc. Simple and playable enough to make you want to keep going.
The B5 mod I have is unplayable. If there is a newer or better version available already then I will play it and maybe some of my points have already been taken care of.
To those who are undertaking to make the mod better, I applaude you and eagerly await your work.
I have read my 'ranting' here and I wish to add something.
I'm not trying to be overly critical of peoples work. I accept that alot of hard work has gone into this and appologise if I have offended anyone. I just think its a shame that so much effort has gone into this and it still doesnt work as well as I'm sure everyone would like.
Thanks for yor time. Steve (Onyx).