Proportions and Devnull Mod combo

Mylon · #1 October 17th, 2002, 04:17 AM

Would the two of you mind if I made a mod combining the best (in my opinion) of Proportions and Devnull mods? I wanted to get consent before starting some project that might get shot down. I like the minor little changes of Devnull such as minesweeping ability of point defense weapons, the splitting of monolith facilities, systemwide fleet training, ect, and at the same time I enjoy the more building-focused aspect of Proportions, plus the different little support extras scattered around, like the weapon platform control centers.

[ October 23, 2002, 00:45: Message edited by: Mylon ]

Fyron · #2 October 17th, 2002, 04:18 AM

Rollo is in charge of Devnull, not Geo.

geoschmo · #3 October 17th, 2002, 05:49 AM

Yep, I dug it up out of the grave, but Rollo is the one who has brought it back to life.

I haven't touched it since the Version released on the Gold CD. Even on that one Rollo did most of the hard work. Since then he's done all of it.

PvK · #4 October 17th, 2002, 08:25 AM

Be my guest, Mylon. I only ask that people mention the use in the readme.

You might want to look at Derek's Mod, which, if I'm not mistaken, does exactly what you propose, but of course with what Derek likes best from both mods.

PvK

oleg · #5 October 17th, 2002, 02:30 PM

Long time since Derek updated his mod. It was base on Proportion 1.5 if I'm not mistaken. It would be good if anyone update it or make a new compilation of Proportion/Devnull

Mylon · #6 October 17th, 2002, 04:14 PM

I do intend on giving full credit to both PVK and Rollo and the original creator of Devnull, Devnull himself. Plagerism is about one of the worst sins a person could commit, in my opinion.

I intend to create a city I, a City II, and a city III based on research, intelligence, mineral extraction, organic extraction, radioactives extraction, and probably industry. This way, while the more specialized facilities increase in usefulness, so will cities. I also plan on modifying the cost of cities somewhat to make them slightly more appealing.

Another change I would like to make is to create a "city foundation" structure which has the production rate of a space yard, and can be upgraded into a spaceport city, which will have a production rate as well. Granted, this will make homeworlds even more powerful, but perhaps they might stand a chance at building an extra Cultural World Center or upgrading the ones they have to the III Version.

I am curious about how I will keep this mod up to date with Proportions and Devnull mods as they are updated (have to go locate changes and copy/paste them), but I'm still waiting on Rollo's okay.