Is this possible in a mod?

Wenin · #1 April 17th, 2006, 01:17 PM

Your comments do bring up an interesting point. I wouldn't want this invisible AI race "Using" the gates. =(

Wolfman77 · #2 April 17th, 2006, 02:52 PM

Events can only happen once per turn at the most, for all races combined. It would work as an add on to existing WP's, but it wouldn't work very well if there were no WP's at the start of the game.

If the ancient race had a racil tech, you could give them a facility at the start that used the sector ability to cloak their planet. Just add the ability to a facility that the game setup calls for on their homeworld.

The diplomacy for an invisible AI could be chalenging though. I think you could keep them from making treaties easily, and setting them to get friendlier from other players ships and planets works pretty good, but they may still send general messages with no text if there is nothing in the speach file. Maybe a line like "Your race isn't ready for our secrets." or something like that.

Wenin · #3 April 17th, 2006, 03:17 PM

Any ideas on keeping the ancient race from using the gates? =) They're suppose to be dead... can't go using stuff when you're dead. =)

Fyron · #4 April 17th, 2006, 04:44 PM

If you make them neutrals, they will not be able to travel through (any) warp points. That's about all you can do, short of making their ships have no practical deep space range.

Alneyan · #5 April 17th, 2006, 05:13 PM

You could make the components harder to use, by toying with supplies in particular. Ditch the Resupply Depots and similar stuff, and make the Warp Opener use up all the supplies on board the vessel. Engine drain will remove a few of these supplies, making the Warp Opener impossible to use.

The other players will be able to power up the device again by resupplying it with the standard means.

Wenin · #6 April 17th, 2006, 06:04 PM

Excellent point Alneyan.

Suicide Junkie · #7 April 17th, 2006, 06:22 PM

Actually, regular players wouldn't be able to charge it up enough...

They would need to be able to build a single ship with more supply storage than the component requires per shot.

A flock of smaller supply ships won't work, since supplies are shared such that all ships get the same amount.