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Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
-Why does it cost so much to get phased shields when PPBs are so easy to get?
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Yeah, thats a quirk of the early game I've never really understood either. Find it goes so far as to significantly lessen the value of racial techs during the first half of the game (PPBs are generally WAY cheaper to research, just as damaging, and go right through shields). I kind of like how SuicideJunkie handles it(in P&N), with the even/odd phased/regular shield research tree. Myself, I would make phase shielding an applied tech which becomes available at Physics lvl 2 (same level that PPBs show up). Research the applied tech, get access to phased shielding (at the level of your actual shield tech, same way small weapons gives you miniturized Versions of weapons at the tech level at which you know them). That way, two empires with even research output, the guy who researchs PPBs (a quickly researched weapon tech) would be able to pound the heck out of the guy who researches phase shielding (a slower researched applied tech) for a while, but not for the entire early-middle game. Of course, I've never been able to figure out the whole modding thing in the first place, so maybe I should just keep my big mouth shut and leave it up to the experts.
Anyway, I basically agree with Phoenix-D that its some of the small imbalances like that really take some of the diversity out of the game (and really lets a player dominate the AIs who don't happen to research the "linchpin" techs at the right time). The great SEIV mods out there are the ones that do the big and the little things well, and by the sound of it this balancing mod is going to be a good one. Totally looking forward to it!
P.S. While I'm on the topic of mods, I'm just getting into the P v2.2b mod, and it totally rocks. Really changes the "feel" of the game, not just the statistics. A very fun and refreshing change from the standard SEIV universe. Suicide, those living ships are hella cool. Just so you know
Edit: Typos and jibberish
[This message has been edited by Mad_Lear (edited 13 August 2001).]
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