What mod can anyone recommend to try next?

wilhil · #1 October 9th, 2005, 10:47 AM

Hi

at the moment I am playing with the star trek mod, and I really love it, I feel like every time I play, I do have a lot of fun, and could play a hundred more games with it, but at the same time, I really want to try something a bit diffrent and was wondering if anyone can recommend any good mods that are really good and worth playing?

Thanks

General Woundwort · #2 October 9th, 2005, 10:55 AM

Probably the two best mods are Proportions and TDM. Proportions makes homeworlds *much* more important than they are normally, and makes some interesting changes to the tech tree. TDM is mostly unmodded SEIV, but the AI's are toughened up considerably.

wilhil · #3 October 9th, 2005, 11:07 AM

I will try proportions, I looked on pbw and saw 2.0, is this the latest version?

I have always thought that homeworlds should be more important! I have not tried the mod yet so I really cant comment on that, but whenever I play SEIV, I just think they should have some mass influence, and not the only diffrence be their type name, for example your empire collapses with it, some massive disadvantage, or like one central command building, and without it, morale is lower, you loose your culture bonuses.... something like that which is better than just loosing a space port and loosing a few bonuses untill it can be rebuilt!

Ed Kolis · #4 October 9th, 2005, 12:06 PM

The latest version of proportions is 3.0.5. Get it here: http://www.latibulum.com/pvk/proportions/

wilhil · #5 October 9th, 2005, 12:13 PM

wow, I love this mod so far!

my head hurts trying to take it in, and work out all the diffrent areas of research! This looks really good!

Im going to have fun! again nothing against the normal game, or the star trek mod, they are great and I could play over and over again, but sometimes you fancy a change, and this one seems really good!

wilhil · #6 October 9th, 2005, 01:37 PM

Ok, I really like this mod, but having a few problems trying to understand what I am meant to be doing :S

The homeworld planets all have cultral centers, and I can tell they are much better than the other sort of settlements,

Is it meant to be that I build on each planet as soon as I colonise, a settlement, then just upgrade to the latest whenever I can, but then the cultral center is something that I should aim to get much later on, if there is enough time to build it on a planet?

also I always seem to mess up on buildings that give bonuses both system wide and planet wide, however hard I try, I never really understand this and always seem to mess up, I was wondering if you have a systemwide and planetwide feature that do the same but do not stack, will it just do the first one built, or the one that gives the highest bonus?

With all the bonus giving things here, I am sure I will mess up, and just want to make sure I will not loose out!

PvK · #7 October 12th, 2005, 10:50 PM

I posted a few more tips for Proportions 3.x to another thread.

PvK

PvK · #8 October 15th, 2005, 06:40 PM

Seems like the main point of Deluxe (from fans' perspective) is to make the game available for sale again, since it isn't at the moment. I might've been able to introduce a few new players while the game has been unavailable to buy. I assume it'll get some exposure to new people since it will be carried by a new publisher who may even put it on store shelves. Hopefully a bunch of new players will be summoned from the ether.

PvK

PvK · #9 October 15th, 2005, 06:42 PM

Back on topic, I think the best way to play Proportions mod is on PBW, and Alneyan has been looking for players to take over his PBW empires in PBW Proportions Game #1 and #3 for some time now. So I'd recommend that - let me know if interested.

PvK