Carrier Battles Mod

[Suicide Junkie]

News:
I'm currently trying out a new planet storage system.
Most planets will start with only a few thousand cargo spaces.

That'll be good for only a handful of troops and fighters.

Now, most facilities will have some amount of cargo space ability. Build farms, you can feed lots of troops. Build almost anything and your increase in infrastructure allows some more troops.
Build a city facility, and your support limit rises even more.

There are also military base facilities, which provide tons of extra storage space, and are good for staging areas or frontline planets which may come under attack.

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I've got back and corrected the stock Methane bug in secttypes.txt.

Currently I'm working to improve the value of Ice to something at least reasonably fair.

[geoschmo]

Suicide Junkie said:
News:
I'm currently trying out a new planet storage system.
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Oooo, I like this. I like this a lot. I wonder if we should suggest something like this for stock SE5?

[Atrocities]

I have to agree, this is a brillant idea.

[Suicide Junkie]

Wow!

This map analysis looks pretty fair to me.
Ice/Rock are equivalent in all categories.
Gas overcomes a facility deficit with population bonuses to end with an equal resource production.

Micro and tiny moons give the vaccuum breathers back what they lose in the larger planets.

[Urendi Maleldil]

I like that idea. Finally, an easy way to represent a planet's infrastructure.

[Frederick_d_Ohlmann]

By the way... Replacing Life support by "Crew" that give combat bonus can be good.
On little fighter it would be (I don't know how to say it in english) an optional additional crewman that fire weapon resulting in more accuracy (you know, like in WW1 fighter). On bomber it would be the crew and may not be optionnal...

[Suicide Junkie]

If you mean just on the fighters, I think I may just do that... though it wouldn't really replace lifesupport.

Not requiring an explicit lifesupport component on the short-range (no strategic move) fighters would be quite reasonable I think. And having an optional double-cockpit for some small combat bonus would be good.