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View Poll Results: What do you think of big gridtechs?
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I want my DUC: XLVIII now!
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Crazy enough to work
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Probably won't fly
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Worst. Idea. Ever.
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October 29th, 2004, 04:36 PM
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Re: GridTechs, compression and HD space.
There would only be 4000 Versions of each weapon, since they're 3-dimensional gridtechs.
I do plan on making a few more levels of the other components, but they'll be insignificant next to the weapons.
Knocking it down to 10x10x10 for 1/4 the space would be feasible too.
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October 29th, 2004, 04:44 PM
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Re: GridTechs, compression and HD space.
What impact does this have on the ship design in-game? I wouldn't want to have to sort through 4000 variations of a weapon to get to the one I want...
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October 29th, 2004, 04:59 PM
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Re: GridTechs, compression and HD space.
"show only latest" 
It'll be better or equal in every way to the lower tech Versions, so no worries there.
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October 29th, 2004, 05:18 PM
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Re: GridTechs, compression and HD space.
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October 29th, 2004, 05:23 PM
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Re: GridTechs, compression and HD space.
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"show only latest"
It'll be better or equal in every way to the lower tech Versions, so no worries there.
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Ah, for some reason I was assuming that the resource cost on a component would be going up as the tech went up.
Just be sure to but all the things you might want to take "lesser" Versions of before the stuff that only gets better as the tech level rises -- if anything falls into that Category at all! |
October 29th, 2004, 06:10 PM
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Re: GridTechs, compression and HD space.
Isn't there a maximum number of components that SE4 can support? (Or is it millons?)
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October 29th, 2004, 07:01 PM
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Re: GridTechs, compression and HD space.
I would guess at least 2^16 for max number of components, so that's about 64000. Most likely it's 2^32 theoretical max, so four billion. But then you start running into memory issues. 1000-4000 levels of weapons should be fine as far as the game being able to load it, but if it's all kept in memory, then there could be some issues on older machines...
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Re: GridTechs, compression and HD space.
Everyone, let's bug Aaron to put tech grids into SE5, at least as a moddable feature - seriously, all it would take is for one data field to be calculated from ANY other data field, not just from the level field, so you could calculate for instance your weapon damage from the Weapon Damage Enhancement tech level requirement and the hitpoints from the Component Reinforcement tech level requirement and the size from the Miniaturization tech level requirement and the...
(Oh no... are we turning SE5 into GalCiv with its tiny incremental bonuses to everything?   )
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