[Baron Munchausen]

LGM:

I've already made most these changes to mines in my own personal 'mod'... mine sweepers are a seperate area from mines, and mines have only level 2 cloaking so you can see them once you get advanced sensors. I've still got to test whether the 'stealth armor for mines' works or not to improve their inherent cloaking ability a little bit. I have considered putting mine sweeping ability into PDC cannons but I'm afraid the AI might then use those instead of true sweepers in a mine sweeper design, or might start treating other ships as mine sweepers.

Geo:

Multi-unit launchers may cause the same problem as mine sweeping on a PDC. The AI might get confused about the roles of certain ships. Other than that, it might be considered a 'cheat' of sorts that reduces the value of the specialized bays and makes some aspects of the game too easy. It's worth a try. Only play testing will tell.

As far as armor piercing weapons, I've been requesting a 'lesser' weapon ability than the 'skips armor' since before the game was released. Simply have a 'double damage to armor' ability like the 'quad damage to shields' ability. I'd give this ability to the DUC (Mass Driver) because it's a solid projectile rather than a beam. A few simple extra abilities like this would make the game so much more fun! We can only keep asking for them. :-/

[ 30 April 2002: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]