[Pax]

Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
Whoa, great ideas - some of the racial traits stuff reminds me of Stars! with its highly specialized races - I'd love to see this mod in action!

Thanks. The funny thing is, Stars! is hte email 4X game I'd been playing for several years, before getting into SE4. So I suppose similarities might be inevitable.

But even in Stars!, most of the PRT's (Primary Racial Traits) and LRT's (Lesser Racial Traits) only give you extras, rather than completely altering what you have from turn one.

Originally posted by geoschmo:
Yes very nice. Well thought out. Hope you are able to pull it off.

So do I!!

Why the name? Exodus? Just curious.

Geoschmo

Well, originally I'd intended to name it "Phoenix" -- sort of a 'rebirth' concept, since obviously the mod is pretty much a ground-up reworking of the game. But, well ... then folks might've thought Pheonix-D wrote it, and that could prove confusing, so ... I randomly picked a word that "sounded cool" and wasn't, AFAIK, in use as a name hereabouts.

Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
Good ideas..

Suggestion: is it possible to do *both*? Simulating one engine type being a big, single engine in the back, as opposed to another type with lots of itty bitty engines. Probably not, but it might be worth a shot..

Phoenix-D

Well, that'd really only be a visual difference, really. Wether a given "single engien component" is one huge engine pod, or, fifty small nacelles, is really only a conceptual/visual issue. It's the same mass for the same thrust, and the way SE4's repair systemworks, it'd be a disadvantage to use the distributed, multiple-nacelle approach in terms of actual, multiple components (since repair is per-component, not per-kT).

Also that would somewhat defeat the purpose of mQNP ... which is to produce QNP-like movement, with -- especially for the biggest ships -- far fewer mouse clicks. Gone will be the days of putting fourty engines on a ship, just to eke out a speed of one.

[ November 22, 2002, 21:45: Message edited by: Pax ]