Racial Tech-Traits Mod

[Taera]

How about a mod to concentrate all the racial tecnologies out there (no superpowerful traits) with at least one race to use each? wouldnt it be an interesting mod to play?

[Pax]

I had an idea recently: each person designs their own racial tech area, with all dependant techs, components, mounts, facilities, etc.

Yes, sort of a god-modding affair. But with one catch: research costs, possibly even racial trait costs, would be tweaked for overall balance by an impartial, nonplaying "arbiter" ...

But that way, you wouldn't know what a given alien race was TRULY capable of, until you witnessed that capability for yourself ... typically by getting them to shoot at you. Heh.

Unlike currently, where you can almost 100% expect certain things from, say, an Organic Manipulation race.

Not EXACTLY what you're thinking of, but related, IMO ...

[Taera]

yep, thats even better

[Fyron]

Unless, of course, you look at the data files.

[Pax]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Unless, of course, you look at the data files.

Simply declare that -cheating-; anyone reasonable enough to craft an initially-mostly-balanced Racial Tech Area should be trustworthy enough to honor a "no peeking until the game is over" rule.

[PvK]

Is it possible to make the name of a trait contain characters that make it distinct, but not visibly different during play, so that opponents can't actually tell which specific traits another race has chosen by looking at their race info page?

PvK