The "Birth-of-a-new-mod" Thread!

[Gryphin]

SJ, that looks really nice. Now, who is going to bell the cat? I expect Davidg's program would work really well for the project.
yah know what is funny?
We / I / you make these Micro Mods?
And somebody will inevitably add to them

Gottal love humans

[Dralasite]

This may exist in some form or another, but I would like mods where you have to choose things that have negative implications as well as positive. Examples:

1. components that give you +attack but -defense

2. facilities with +radioactives production but -happiness

3. population types that give you funny penalties (like the lazy and masochistic types mentioned in the "Peaceful, neutral & bloodthirsty? Can you make your own Category?" thread)

Lots more possibilities. Clearly poeple like to min max racial traits, why not let them do it with everything else? Or make it more interesting to try and balance ships, planets, etc.

[ January 07, 2003, 23:19: Message edited by: Dralasite ]

[DarkHorse]

Originally posted by Dralasite:
This may exist in some form or another, but I would like mods where you have to choose things that have negative implications as well as positive. Examples:

1. components that give you +attack but -defense

2. facilities with +radioactives production but -happiness

3. population types that give you funny penalties (like the lazy and masochistic types mentioned in the "Peaceful, neutral & bloodthirsty? Can you make your own Category?" thread)

Lots more possibilities. Clearly poeple like to min max racial traits, why not let them do it with everything else? Or make it more interesting to try and balance ships, planets, etc.

Being lazy has gotten a bad rep. I prefer to think of it as minimizing entropy.

[Gryphin]

SJ, Feel like pursuing the RPS MM? I'll do it but it will be a couple months from now. PM me if you like or gryphin@windinstream.com
Enjoy

[Dralasite]

Ok, I had another mod idea. What if (nearly) every tech area was a "racial" tech? So at the beginning of the game you had to choose what tech you could ever research for the whole game? You'd want to make the various techs cheap enough so that you could choose a bunch, but costly enough so that you would have some tough decisions.

Mines and colonization might have to be free or realy cheap, maybe some others as well.

[Suicide Junkie]

I already have too much to do, though the RPS MM should take maybe 30 minutes to make.

I might find some time this weekend.

BTW, someone will need to make some shipsets!
Perhaps re-coloured Versions of each other to separate the empires.

[Gryphin]

I'm up for making the ship sets but if I do it this weekend I won't have my sweetheart, (pooh star), anymore.
Maybe over the next week.