Junkyard games?

[Ed Kolis]

Here's a list of changes I made so far, tell me what you think:

-Renamed the weapon mounts and some components to give it a more "junkyard" flavor
-Larger weapon mounts use a disproportionate amount of supplies (think "gas guzzling SUV engines"
-Colony modules now have 5 tech levels, and the low level ones are fairly weak, so as to prevent you from getting a really powerful colony tech in ruins. Yes, this does mean your first few colony ships will be very expensive, but so it goes :-P
-Colony modules no longer show up as available for bases. (I'd take care of engines too but it's only cosmetic and I don't want to mess with the vehicle type restrictors now
-Fixed ability description of emissive armor to match Gold functionality of EA
-Medical bays now cost a *LOT* of organics and some rads. Just something that always ticked me off about SE4 :-P
-Added multiple levels of self destruct device to make scavenging parties more viable (Arr! ;-)
-Ship/base repair bays renamed to be consistent with spaceyards
-Hyper-Dense Armor gets a new picture so you can tell it apart from regular Armor
-Removed Small Emissive Armor because it is USELESS!
-Massive shield depleters now really do sap ALL of a target's shields!
-Small Anti-matter Torpedo is no longer useless! (increased damage)
-Small Shield Depleters can no longer be mounted on troops for mega damage!
-Reduced damage of Computer Virus II and III so III isn't overkill
-Tweaked Neutral and Xenophobes cultures for balance

[Spoo]

-Reduced damage of Computer Virus II and III so III isn't overkill

IIRC, if a computer virus doesn't do enough damage to kill a master computer in one shot, it is completely useless.

[ May 26, 2004, 05:09: Message edited by: Spoo ]

[Fyron]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
Yes, sometimes it takes a hard-*** to be a good game owner. A couple people come to mind, but I probably shouldn't name names.

Indeed.

Originally posted by Spoo:
IIRC, if a computer virus doesn't do enough damage to kill a master computer in one shot, it is completely useless.

This is trye of all specific component damaging types.

[ May 26, 2004, 05:18: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[Ed Kolis]

Originally posted by Spoo:
IIRC, if a computer virus doesn't do enough damage to kill a master computer in one shot, it is completely useless.

Yes, but which master computer has 60 hitpoints?
I just evened things out so instead of 20-40-60 damage progression where the CV2 and the CV3 could destroy any MC, now it's 20-30-40 so the CV2 can destroy MC3-5 and the CV3 can destroy any MC.

[Makinus]

I agree with all your changes Ed, they will make the game more interesting, so, when you finish to modify the mod, why you don't upload it to PBW and make it available in this Thread also, so we can download it and designate our races...

And if you want to host it, please create the game in PBW so we can join it...

[Ed Kolis]

All right, the game is set up on PBW as "Junkyard 24XX: Battlegrounds", using the existing Version of the mod, since my Version's not on PBW yet. You should be able to submit your .emp files using JYW Mod v2.1 since I haven't changed any race traits...

[Baron Grazic]

Sorry guys, work load just doubled again, and I'll won't be able to join, as much as I want to.