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Old July 16th, 2004, 11:34 PM
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Further notes: Homeworld resource extraction facilities will be a big problem for AI: it will attempt to biuld them everywhere and fall into stagnation (because of high cost of these facilities).
Implementation of Cultural Center-like facilties for HW requires using dummy abilities or AI Tags.
Yeah, I wanted to make some sort of change to these anyway so that they don't display with the regular facilites. What will be easiest to impliment for AI? Would it be better to have AI tags on the normal facilities, or on the Homeworld facilites?
Give AI tags to common resource extraction and research facilities. It will require 4 AI tags. Then you can use Resource Generation - Min/Org/Rad ability for Homeworld facilities and AI Tags for common facilities in AI_Construction_Facilities.

Also, DN4 introduces different from vanilla game scheme for cloaking and sensors. But AI is completely unaware how to use it. It only uses Sensor Level and Cloak Level abilities and it doesn't care if they are Temporal, Psychic or whatever. If you leave it as is, it will lead to cheezy AI exploits: developed AI will stick with Gravitic Sensors, and if player will use Temporal Cloaking he will be invisible to AI. *Always*
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Old July 16th, 2004, 11:52 PM
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More complains

Hyper Optics comp breaks whole cloaking idea in you mod. It allows lvl 2 EM Passive scans on lvl 1 comp. But where is no cloacking device which prevent EM Passive scans further than lvl 1. So Hyper Optics I will decloack any cloacking device.

Edit: the Last part of my previous post was not entirely correct, I'll test this out and report about results later.

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sure there is. Refraction Armor. Not to be confused with Stealth Armor. Refraction armor gives higher levels of cloak at different levels of research.

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Well, what can I say... I was completely wrong in my latest post too.
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