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Old June 25th, 2002, 08:23 PM
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Default Re: *** Star Trek Mod Discussion ***

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The personal replicators don't really provide supplies (which in the Mod are considered fuel not all general supplies like food etc) they just use them, so they wouldn't have any benefit.
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I was also thinking of some sort of maintenance reduction centre for ships...perhaps just for the Ferengi...any ideas on what would be a good name for it?
How about recycling node, as per nomads in p&n? It would be nice if races other than just the Ferengi could use this. In fact, any nomadic/trading race should really be able to build this device, which brings me to my next point...

Just in general I have a big concern. If this mod is merged with the B5 and SW mods, and everyone introduces exclusive tech trees to define the genres (lots of armor types in B5, droids in SW, recycling nodes & regenerating/crystaline sheilds in ST) then how can we capture other ships and gain their technologies? It seems to me that people will be sort of painted into a corner on what they can research, and ship capture will be pretty well useless. Guys like the borg and other 'pirate' races would be entirely hobbled if there are not enough races from their 'genre' present in their game. Technology trading will be pretty well useless as well, because heck, what could they actually trade when most of the useful components are from exclusive trees?

I'd like to propose some alternative mechanisms to the exclusivizing of the "genre tech trees", but would anyone be interested?

Just my $.02

cc/ B5 mod thread
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