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Old October 19th, 2008, 04:53 AM
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Unhappy Re: Balance Mod Available for SE:V

Fixed that, and combat replays are o.k. .

Some more minor quibbles I found playing a max sized game up to turn 64 (atm):

- organic races shouldn't use Elec. Discharge on (early) scouts, as it cannot target missiles, so the scouts are sittings ducks vs. them. Furthermore the +50% damage against shields is wasted because no-one has shields at that point.

- higher levels of hull construction of the same type seem a tad expensive. (Try high research costs and you'll see that it is cheaper to research towards Light Cruiser than to improve the FF, what seems odd). This is especially true as the early hulls are severely limited in terms of size, therefore you have to improve them at least one notch.

- solar generator (Cryst.) are nerfed too much; in 1-sun systems, at least the early versions barely pay for themselves. Return-of-investment is 100 turns or something. Even in 3-sun systems (which are not that widespread and usually have few, if any, usuable planets), they just can "keep up" with standard facilities.

- AIs are far to eager to offer intersettling treaties. And minor AIs which cannot leave their home sysem shoudn't offer such treaties at all, or at least not on mutual terms. (Maybe if you pay them with your recent tech or something .. because of low planet count they're usually far behind in the tech race)

- AIs seems too eager to do tech transfers; e.g. the Terrans have access to Psychic, Religious, Temporal, Crystalline and Organic Tech in this game. As Terra is only ranked 6th, I doubt this is from spoils of war, intimidation or 3 dozend ruin worlds (can you get racial tech from ruins?). Maybe this is only the EmpireList Screen with its 50% uncertainty, but I have never seen any tech listed there that wasn't really accessible ..
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