SE4 Stock Balance Mod

[Suicide Junkie]

The problem is emissive dosen't stack.

What you really want is one emissive to give the effect, and lots of standard armors to absorb what's left...

AI, when given a call for armor, will pick the one with the highest tech requirements, furthest down the list in components.txt
All the other armors have a special ability to call for, so the reccommended change is to move the standard armor down in the file, and add copies of S.A. III that have tech levels 4 through 6.

Given the above, a token improvement for levels 4 to 6 would look better than exact duplicates.

[ July 28, 2003, 13:03: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

[mac5732]

Instead of adjusting current armor, wouldn't it just be easier to add 1 or 2 more levels with the increased strength/tweaks, or add a new type or two of armor in the general catagory?

just some ideas Mac

[Loser]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
Shield Regenerators do help prevent ship capture & such, since your ship will almost always have some shielding left.

Do you use them, though?

If you don't, can you find me anyone who does?

[geoschmo]

Regarding balancing PDC's. Someone mentioned a long time ago, don't know if it was brought up in this thread or not, one way to balance the PDC would be to decrease it's range. That way at least you have to use a few on each ship, like the AI does anyway, instead of a few dedicated PDC ships covering the whole fleet. Does this seem like an AI friendly change? And is someone going to tell me it's in the Devnull mod?

Geoschmo

[Suicide Junkie]

Originally posted by Loser:

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Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
Shield Regenerators do help prevent ship capture & such, since your ship will almost always have some shielding left.

Do you use them, though?

If you don't, can you find me anyone who does?

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I personally do use them, but I'm a defense nut. You recall the story of the Avenger?

[oleg]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
Regarding balancing PDC's. Someone mentioned a long time ago, don't know if it was brought up in this thread or not, one way to balance the PDC would be to decrease it's range. That way at least you have to use a few on each ship, like the AI does anyway, instead of a few dedicated PDC ships covering the whole fleet. Does this seem like an AI friendly change? And is someone going to tell me it's in the Devnull mod?

Geoschmo

I might be a bad player since I often have troubles to cover fleet with dedicated PDC ships in auto combat.

Usually such ships end up in one end of the battle while my other ships get slautered by missiles few sectors away. Making ships to stay in formation helps but it introduce even more troubles. Now I simply put extra PDC on every ship just to be safe !

[tesco samoa]

geo i have them lose damage as the range increases up to 50% at the final range
and doubled the cost of research.
and as extra balance increased the damage resistance of the seekers alittle.

It seems to work quite well in testing As missles do hit as compaired to stock

[Suicide Junkie]

Why a reduction at range rather than a flat reduction?

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by oleg:
I might be a bad player since I often have troubles to cover fleet with dedicated PDC ships in auto combat.

Usually such ships end up in one end of the battle while my other ships get slautered by missiles few sectors away. Making ships to stay in formation helps but it introduce even more troubles. Now I simply put extra PDC on every ship just to be safe !

I wouldn't say you are a bad player, just maybe not using enough of them. You are right about the AI combat. To counter that I'd suggest more then one PDC ship per fleet. Three or four for a decent sized fleet should give you a good chance of having one in the right place.

Of course putting some on every ship works too.

Geoschmo

[tesco samoa]

sj preference....