Some of my ideas and questions

[Lord Kodos]

Well some news related to y mod the first being i intend to include a map of vectoria prime as well as Larry nivens Known space (oh yeah i finally read ringwolrd it was supurb)also only the species included in the mod will be compatible as there will be a number of new ship pictures just the Planetoid and the battle moon and the infantrys and the starcannon and a lot more... but i need an artist as well any takers? i also will include a Puppeteers AI with it becuase i may include a puppeteerts shipset but i have no ideas on what their ships look like i may even include the general products company

also i need an idea of a known space map how far away is kzin to earth and things like that?

[Suicide Junkie]

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also only the species included in the mod will be compatible as there will be a number of new ship pictures just the Planetoid and the battle moon and the infantrys and the starcannon and a lot more...

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Pictures don't make AIs incompatible.

What you do is put some pictures into the default AI folder: if a race has the pic, SE uses it, otherwise it goes to the default.

See P&N v2 RE: battlemoons.

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[Lord Kodos]

ah that is true however when it comes to infantry im at a stump how can i make a generic infantry?? i mean i beleivwe one nuetrel even has four arms!AGHh what to do...well i have some new ideas again Grappler arms like in outlawstar now the problem is getting it so that you only can use them on a grapppler ship or i can just make grappler arm weapons but again only on a grappler ship hmm what a predicimint im in

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[Suicide Junkie]

For infantry, I'd suggest making a 3KT size troop.

For a bridge/cockpit, you have a generic "person" component. Then you add a 1KT body armor & a 1KT hand weapon. If you want to add racial traits, you can make four-handed weapons that do extra damage, or act as armor (parry). A lightsaber, for example is regularily used to block energy beams

Now, imagine instead of a single 3KT guy, you have a whole pack of infantry, say 10,000. that would mean ~300 KG per person of equipment & supplies.
So, when you add 1KT of "Kevlar II" to your troop, you are distributing 10,000 vests.

With a decent vehicle pic (Landing craft? Rows of marching uniforms? APCs in formation?) you can make it look good.

As an option, you can reduce the size to 2KT, and make the infantry weapons or armors be the "cockpit" as well.

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[This message has been edited by suicide_junkie (edited 24 August 2001).]

[Lord Kodos]

new components and stufff!!!!!

Space monetser comps:
Stinger:a close range destroyed on use weapon of decent power
eye bLast: a new weapon
space monster facilitys:
Spawn flower:space yard
space monster units:Spore launcher:weapon platform

Corparastion stuff

Race enfgine:insane speed engine
Generel products hull 1,2,3:a armor of insane defense however it costs a lot to build as well as take up a lot of space and if possibloe ill make it slow youre ship down
General products life support: a larger albeit safer life suppoert system
Spacing guild navigator:a special 1kt extremely high organic costing bridge that can open and close warpoits at will.

:corpation faciltys

Spaceyards
Corparate headquarters:increases population happiness as well as planetary output


:corparsate ships

Guild transport
Leisure cruiser
and all the other avarege ships


well just some stuff

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[This message has been edited by Lord Kodos (edited 25 August 2001).]

[Lord Kodos]

ughh why am i not in bed? well tomorrow i leave for florida i have some ill reletives their but i will be Online ocassianioly after all i have to prepare the vnn ( vectorian news network a new site that will have news about se4 as well as editorials and other things if you want to apply email me) and for tyhe omniverse as well as other productions so right now im realy hectic with the mod in danger of being deleted i am realy having a hectic time but anyway heres some new stuff

ship componewnts:
Gravity ball: a ba;ll of gravcity witch does average damage skips sheilds and renders a ship unable to fire for a few turns..

Nuclear Missile: a massivedly powerfull weapon witch can plauge a planet as well as lower the value but it is large costly and has a reload time of 30 so you only get onbe per battle

Interceptors oint defense missiles

Automated security lasers: a stronger albeit larger defense sysatem

Plasma cannon: a well rounded average laser nuthinn special realy

Driller missiles:misseles that deal damege by drilling into a ships hull and realsing attack drones:long range boarsding partys is this possible wihtout making it go thru sheilds?

Drillchain missles: a missele that is attached to a chain and drills in a ship cauising damage and then retracts pulling the ship towards you

Combat simulator:a training program that increases a ships exp

Hull flare: a electric charge that creates a blinding lifght on youre ship deals minimum damage but has a maximum range

oh and all crew quarters now have the ability to board an enemy ship as well as destroying the crew quarters on youre ship of course they arent good at boarding

[Suicide Junkie]

The Problem with most of those is the fact that you can only have one weapon per component, and one damage type per weapon.

So you can't do damage, and pull a ship, etc.