Devnull Mod Gold: updates and discussion

[Pablo]

Currently I'm in 2 DNM pbw games and a few at home. And a few at work.
The mod seems to be stable for me. Just 1 thing - add a bit clearer explanation on PD cannons. I mean, write there that these guns cannot target fighters but seekers & mines only. It was a very painful discovery

[Krsqk]

They can't target fighters? I haven't run into enough fighter-using races, it seems. At least, I've distracted them from their fighter research. I'm currently using the mod to build my ultimate quadrant--mapped out warp points, fully improved planets, and fully populated sphereworlds on every star. About 10% of the way there. Of course, I'm keeping a (blockaded) enemy planet around, just as a reminder of what an "enemy" is.

[Pablo]

Krsqk meet the monsters They will keep you busy
Edit: but if you're already populating the sphareworlds maybe it's too late. You should meet them early in the game

[ January 03, 2003, 07:34: Message edited by: Pablo ]

[Krsqk]

Oh, I had my one (very short) monster game. I started one or two systems away from them, or maybe both--it was a ten planet start ("Just to build up enough defenses," I said. "Should make sure none of those monster beasties get to me!" I said. Never mind that they can spawn 10 times as many of them. "Of course they won't start near me. You wouldn't do anything like that to meee, right?" *charming smile, followed by sounds of death and destruction*). No monsters in this game, though--I've already subdued and colonized the entire quadrant (including using/colonizing asteroids, clearing nebulae/black holes, and creating stars), and I'm working back through it to spiff up all of my planets.

[ January 03, 2003, 08:02: Message edited by: Krsqk ]

[Pablo]

what's the turn number then?

[HEMAN]

Rollo wrote; Are people still playing DNM? I haven't gotten a lot of feedback after the Last release. Which means: a) the Last Version is running stable with no bugs, or b) it is not getting played.

Im playing this mode 2-3 hours everyday? iTS GREAT , For me its (a).I have a few suggestion,

1)Add more Weapons & Componets from the older DMODE?.Like Missile system re-designed (Small missiles, Armor skipping missiles, shield skipping missiles, Decoy missiles, etc)
Heavy Versions of weapons (rate of fire of 2, bigger range and damage.)Mercinary Commanders available for bases and ships.
Some weapons have better 'to hit' bonus (Torps!)

2)More Ruins , Super atmosphere converter/Super-launch-bay/High level shipyard.

3)Related to monsters, i would like to see there homeworld, so i can bombard it.

4)Related to monsters,Its strange it appears that they create a wormhole in my solar system 3-4 wormholes, all the time, and my system becomes the center of the universe.
So whada ya think of these ideas??.

[Puke]

now, i dont think this can be done, because i think we thought about thinking about it before (confused yet?), but heres the regergitated idea anyway:

can we make a tech that is only available through trade / shipcapture + analysis? (i dont think so.)

if so, you can make a monstor scanner that can detect monsters and their homeworld, but you can only research it after caputring a monster ship and analyzing it. or starting on high-tech, of course. but i dont think that can be done normally, because the tech (or its pre-reqs) would always show up in the tech tree, unless it was racial, and if it was racial, then it couldnt be gained through analysis / reverse-engineering.

what you COULD do though, is make it super-expensive, so it would take 100 million research units or something. then the only practical way to gain the tech, wouild be through analysis. unless you run into max-int problems, but i think research costs use long-int. so it should be okay.