Utility: Custom Army Design System (Very Rough Draft)

[DrPraetorious]

I'm opening this up for comments.

Once it's cleaned up enough that people can use it, I'd like people to try designing a few national armies with it, and see how very broken it is - most of these numbers are just what I made up off the top of my head so I expect the armies made with this rubric to be *extremely* poorly balanced.

If I can get it working at all I will finish up by including rules for national mages, national summons, etc.

[DrPraetorious]

I'm doing a major rewrite.

Instead of keep track of distinct lists for equipment availability and for race, I'm going to combine the two and give each race a tech level, access to chassis, etc., as part of the individual race description.

This rework will take some time.

[Zylithan]

i like this idea. i know nothing about balance and modding yet.

[Panpiper]

I am extremely interested in this project of yours. Expect to get some major feedback from me when you've posted your rewrite. Thank you ever so much for your efforts.

One thing I did not spot in your first draft was any mention of exactly how many design points one should have to spend in order to build a 'balanced' race. Obviously such a point recommendation is rather moot without the other sections (gems, pretenders, etc.) also being at least rudimentarily present, but it aught to give us a ball park.

[Huzurdaddi]

Damn, you are seriously productive. This and the compressed nations. Nicely done.

When you get the commanders done, I'll take a look at the type of nation I can make.

[DrPraetorious]

A new version, still very rough, is attached at the root.

I won't be able to do much more work on it for the next month or so.