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Captain Kwok said:
The AI does remember these locations sort of. They mark all their defensive locations, which include warp points that lead to enemy systems, each turn. There is a function in the orders script that does mark these as no go sectors, but I think it only nullifies orders if the ship's destination is the same. This wouldn't help ships that were ordered to colonize a planet in the enemy's system, nor an explorer ship sent to one of the unknown warp points etc. I perhaps could modify this check to the system itself, rather than just the sector.
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Well, that would make the AI start thinking more like a human. Isn't it possible for enemy ships to MOVE when they see your fat, helpless colonizer all alone? Sure, change the AI to consider whether the
system is enemy occupied rather than the sector. That should result in a major improvement in AI strategy. Giving colonizers an armed escort whenever they are sent to a system with known enemy would be a huge improvement.
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Captain Kwok said:
The DUC is a good early to mid-game weapon and even though it has decent range to some of the later non-seeker weapons, it's damage ratios are much less. It's possible to keep the DUC as your primary weapon, while rush researching a specialized weapon in the hopes you'll get that weapon before your enemy might get a counter in place.
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The DUC has some major disadvantages, though. The requirement for ordnance is one. No other 'beam' requires ordnance, as far as I recall. Only missiles and torpedoes. For the sake of realism, it really ought to have an accuracy disadvantage, too. Slugs of metal (uranium or otherwise) are not going to travel as fast as particle beams or pure energy and so will be increasingly prone to miss at long ranges. I gave it this disavantage in my own minimal modding attempts. Instead I see it's about as good as the meson blaster in the Balance Mod. Since I'm not very good with math formulae "0 - ([%Range%] + ([%Range%] / 10))" is the best I can do for an 'asymptotic' curve.
Anyone got a better formula?