Hey there Grumbler! Good to hear from you again.
I've been busy on a fairly big Excel sheet to calculate all the things you need for a weapon. Because I was absolutely not happy about the way Val decided to do things I wanted to change that. I wasn't aware of the enormous labor this required (which only made my admiration for modbuilders and Val bigger).
I decided to stick to a proven game; Babylon 5 Wars 2nd Edition. Val more or less coupled his values (damage, cost, weight) to all the weapons in this serie of playmanuals. To discover which method Val used to calculate his weapons, I set out to evaluate his values. In the end I more or less found the formualae Val used. I adjusted these for my own use and according to my own sense of logic. Then I had to decide how to implement each race into The Mod.
After much debating with a friend of mine and talking to you guys and girls, I decided I should go for the original set up. Each race has the same techtree. Each race has a tiny, light, medium, heavy, mega and ultra weapon (there can be more than one weapons in a given weapon class). I'm still in doubt wether I should give one race more weapons in total then the other. I compensate this by making the cost ofthat race higher.
This Excel sheet takes up much time to fabricate (I do have my work in real live too
). Therefore work progresses slowly, but surely. I say around 75% of the sheet is done. After this Version I plan on making a Delphi Version, althought I haven't got the skill to do that very quickly, maybe I strugle a bit more with Excel. Who knows. But to cut to the chase, I'm not planning to release a unfinished Version of this Excel sheet just yet. After it's done, I upload it here and everyone can give his or her comments on it. Untill this glorious day, you're all free to give advise, suggestions, demands and the like.
I don't mean to be blunt in this Last piece of text.
Just sit tight and I'll deliver.
Edit: typos, typos, typos...
[ October 26, 2003, 07:35: Message edited by: Timstone ]