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[Dravis]

The Ultimate MOD is only 10% Complete!?!?!? Man it uses enough of my memory as it is! and that will be one BIG download. GOOD!!!!

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Grand Admiral Dravis
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[Puke]

here is a feature list so far. stats on individual components are still being ballanced.


psychic 1500
adv psychic 1000
-telekenitic shields
-psychic intel facility and nexus(system facil)
-collective thought nexus (system research facil)

religious 1500
adv religious 800
-portable death talisman, i hope
-blight bombs
-missionaries-combattant (fighter based boarding parties, thanks to P&N swashbucklers)

temporal 1500
adv temporal 1500
-temporal spaceyards (spaceborne)
-temporal engines
-portable events predictor
-stasis armor

crystal 1500
adv crystal 800
-new crystal weapons
-crystal stealth armor

organic 1500
adv organic 1500
-new organic weapons
-organic ships and components
-organic growing yards

planet bound:
no advanced spaceflight (requirement for larger hull sizes, some engine classes)
no space shipyards

spaceborne:
no colonization
advanced spaceflight
space shipyards

(note that planet bound & spaceborne will be 0 points, and should both be taken for a normal player)

PR:
-crossover crew converting seeker, broadcast prerecorded religious visions.

PT:
-baddass crossover singularity weapon

PC:
-crystal thought transmitter, healing crystals transmit good thoughts thru a system

PO:
-psychic anti-boarding armor
-telekenitic armor (provides TK shields)

RT:
-spiritual crew quarters

RC:
-crystal fertility shrine: religious hippies get worked up about this crystal shrine, and breed like crazy. happy bonus too

RO:
-zealot drop pod

TC:
-time accelerated stelar harnass, crystal stellar resource gathering into a pocket of accelerated time to increase collection volumes

TO:
-time lapse growth facilitator (organic resource booster)

CO:
-organic crystal armor
-crossover weapon

advanced everything:
-allows research of Applied Science Fiction Lore, granting access to the Sci-Fi Canon. (i lied when i said it would not be in the mod, but it will take decades to build)

STANDARD TECHS:

armors:
-tachyon dampners, as typical
-ablative armor, smallest armor, per devnull
-plasma armor, slightly larger armor, more efficient and higher cost. tweaked Version of the P&N plasma armor.
-neutron armor, not quite as good as other advanced armors, but far less repair heavy
-racial armors, as described above
-buckytube kept, prerequisites added before advanced features can be obtained. also requires nanotech

nanotech:
-allows buckytubes
-nanofactories, prohibitive research costs, very efficient repair at 1/component.
-nanodisassemblers, weapons in missile, cannon, and torpedo form. (low on the list of things to do)
-allows GAP nano-treated pants (isnt that shameless? did you hear about that silly stuff?)

cloaking:
-asteroid fields, provide level 2 passive EM
-stealth armor, provides levels 2-4 passive EM
-active offsource dispersion cloak, provides levels 2-4 active EM, psychic, temporal
-gravetic cancelation field, provides 2-4 gravetic cloaking
-sensors stay the same

shields:
-shields, phased shields, shield generators, regenerative shields, and hardened generators -are all being tweaked and slightly reworked

supplies:
-fighters use less supplies, and their engines therefore carry less.
-quantum reactors have prerequisites in the engines field, and are also much bigger.

ships and movement:
-most devnull hull sizes used
-battlemoon stolen from P&N
-movement system stolen from P&N and slightly shifted to allow fewer engines.
-no bonus movement. solar sail kept as a supplyless, slow engine. it does store a tiny bit and charge from solar power incase all supplies are used in a fight. that way its movement will stay above 1
-inertialess drive added above quantum engines
-temporal probability drive in the adv temporal tree.
-more emphasis placed on combat movement. various tactical drives added as Versions of their interstellar counterparts.

weapons:
-standard missile sizes used
-devnull missiles added
-P&N heavy bombardment renamed to shield bombardment to avoid conflict with the original
-devnull point defense systems added
-devnull destinction between fighter PD and missile PD kept, and refined.
-advanced racial and crossover weapons added

ship and base components:
-engineering bay kept, construction and bridge component removed
-battle bridge kept, tweaked
-astrometrics bay added, low level active and passive EM scan
-construction dock added, enables small construction and retrofits
-dry dock, massive and very expensive base-only construction facility. better than planet based.
-noncombattant ships and bases reworked for general purpose construction or mining, poopey combat modifiers. tried to make them standard noncom ships rather than kludgey purpose-built hull sizes.

stellar manipulation
-maintained the destinction between monolithic construction and SM.
-currently resisting the urge to create very costly research projects leading to fighter based SM
-original monoliths used

applied political science
-leads to riot suits, troops big enough to hold a cockpit, similar to the drop troops but not good for combat.

construction:
-mineral heavy construction yard available at a higher cost
-organic heavy construction yards available to advanced organic races

races:
-expanded race cultures list shamelessly stolen
-negative racial traits added
-currently hunting for formations to steal

events:
-events mod shamelessly stolen

mines:
-specialty mines dropped in (engine, weapon, null) but at higher cost, and larger warheads. prerequisites for all.
-mine scanner got the axe for play ballance reasons

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"...the green, sticky spawn of the stars"
(with apologies to H.P.L.)

[dogscoff]

Woo - like the look of this. I am a big Devnullmod player, so I think I will fit right into this new mod.



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[Suicide Junkie]

quote:

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-missionaries-combattant (fighter based boarding parties, thanks to P&N swashbucklers)

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Which are currently not operational, due to SE4 not even checking for the "capture ship" ability on units. You'll have to wait for these to become useful in a future patch.


Be sure to add in the PD repulsor!
- whatever cost you like
- picture # 147 (Repulsor beam on a small turret)
- 5 KT, or so
- 1 damage ("pushes target")
- 1 range
- 1 reload

4 of these can hold off a single low tech missile group indefinitely. Any number of them will reduce damage from plasma missiles, and they also help to keep fighters from ramming you.

[This message has been edited by suicide_junkie (edited 13 September 2001).]

[HreDaak]

A couple of suggestions...

Sector Cloaking Device. The Ability Sector - Sight Obscuration works on planets and components, it cloaks planets too. I think that every Sector wide ability in the Abilities.txt file works on components, not sure of this though. Especially Sector - Damage might me interesting on a ship .

From system wide abilities atleast Planet Value Change - System works on components. Possibly the others work too.. i havent tested them yet.

Components based on these might be nice to see in mods.. though i could imagine that they would cause serious balance problems if not handled correctly...

btw, that point-defense repulsor component idea rocks...

[This message has been edited by HreDaak (edited 13 September 2001).]

[Puke]

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Originally posted by suicide_junkie:

-missionaries-combattant (fighter based boarding parties, thanks to P&N swashbucklers)

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Which are currently not operational, due to SE4 not even checking for the "capture ship" ability on units. You'll have to wait for these to become useful in a future patch.

i swear that i remember using them in the Andromeda scenario. I dont think that i imagined it, but i will have to double check now. thats alright tho, we will just give the religious something else. maybe they can disbelieve things and turn oncomming missiles into nothingness

since everyone is so keen on them, i will sneak the point defense repulsor in there too.

system abilities on ships is something that i toyed with a long time ago, and the cloaking never worked quite right. you cant make planets disappear, but you can make them seem unpopulated. you can also prevent them from being attacked, which is slightly silly.

system wide value changeing components might be a tad powerful, but if they were put under advanced religious, and the trait cost was upped, and they were sufficiently hard to research and build, it might be okay.

Since I am doing alot of the balancing with research costs, a high tech game might find most of the people taking similar traits.

[This message has been edited by Puke (edited 13 September 2001).]

[capnq]

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thats alright tho, we will just give the religious something else. maybe they can disbelieve things and turn oncomming missiles into nothingness

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Or whales. Or pots of petunias.

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Cap'n Q

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

[This message has been edited by capnq (edited 13 September 2001).]