[Tenryu]

Originally posted by Rollo:
Tenryu - Your suggestion makes PPB waaayyy too weak IMHO. For a 100k "admission fee" you get a PPB I with damage 15 10 00 00 ...? No offense, but that is just worthless. Using your system you'd have to have at least PPB V before even considering using them.

Rollo

Rollo, They skip shields. I 'rebalanced' ALL the other weapons, and the tech trees related to them, I also gave them to you after Physics 1. I was NEVER happy with my tweaking, the issue is very complex.

My point being, if you go mucking with the ppb you will need to muck with darn near everything else, not to mention the AIs.

I agree the issue of WEAPONs, {what they do, how they do it, how many types there are, what mounts they can use, what level they can be researched to, what they cost, and what they cost to maintain, what race can use them}, is important, but, it is not an issue amenable to a quick tweak. It would need the sustained attention by several modders completely familiar with the potential impacts on AI designs and behavior.

In short, you would need someting like happened with the TDM Group to do it WELL. That group has a well articulated and focused area of attention. At the outset they set clearly defined bounds for the project. TDM has been a SUSTAINED, but CASUAL, group effort. It will be a difficult act to follow.


[ May 30, 2002, 14:17: Message edited by: Tenryu ]