Proportions Mod Versions 2.5.2 and 2.5.3 available

[Mudshark]

Originally posted by PvK:
Thanks Mudshark. Hmm, that might be tricky (or a lot of work) to mod away properly, though it could be done. They will eventually get regenerating phased shield generators.

What year is it, and what level of phased weapons are you using on them?

PvK

The year is 2478.6 I have phased level 8. I'm a glutton for punishment,255 systems. They happen to be 8 systems homeworld to homeword away. I have captured 1 planet 1 sys of of their home system. they still have a good presence in that system. One planet start game.

[ February 13, 2003, 01:58: Message edited by: Mudshark ]

[PvK]

786 turns! Cool... sounds like an epic game. I'd be interested to check out the saved game file, to see what mischief you and the AI have gotten into by that point. I don't think I've run tests of Proportions AI much longer than that.

What research cost setting did you use? Does the AI have a "bonus"?

PvK

[dogscoff]

For a really really epic game, generate a map where you will start the game stranded in an isolated group of systems. By the time you generate stellar manip and break out the AI empires will have huge economies and high tech fleets.

Dogscoff's pointless proportions suggestion of the day:
How about some cheaper-than-spaceyards "repair only" facilities, or maybe allowing distribution centres to repair one component per turn?

[oleg]

Yeah, I would like to see that savegame too !
Especially if any of my AI present (pequeninos, soulhunters, nostropholo, ukra-tal, cryslonite or drushoka)

[dogscoff]

Oleg: Drukshocka are currently giving me a hard time in my single player game - They block my only exit from the few systems I inhabit, and they have been very aggrssive. They are currently throwing BCs and BBs at my warp point, which I am barely holding with some old LCs, a few carriers and some captured ships (boarding). I don't have the resources to build anything better. Not sure how much longer I can survive against them.

Those Druk ships are ridiculously tough. If I didn't have shield + armour skipping weapons (temporal) they would have easily overwhelmed me 200 turns ago.

Oh yeah, to date they have sent 2 planet builders through the warp point! Here's me scraping together funds for light cruisers and they're building stellar manipulation ships! I managed to capture them both (had to mothball one immediately and scrap the other because even one turn's maintenance would have busted me). The thing is, how long until they start opening warp points..?

And once I get past the Druks, I have a feeling I'm going to bump into the Xi. Joy...

[ February 13, 2003, 14:37: Message edited by: dogscoff ]

[oleg]

Captured ? Their military ships should have self-distract devices. I'll check if there are mistakes in design_creation file, thanks !

[Krsqk]

Captured ? Their military ships should have self-distract devices.

Maybe the design engineers had all the self-distract devices. That's probably why the ships didn't get what they were supposed to.

[dogscoff]

Actually, I hit them with armour&shield skipping temporal weapons until the SDD was destroyed, then moved in the boarding ship.

In fact all that armour makes this tactic easier - If you're not lucky enough to take out the SSD early, you can just completely gut the internals (including SDD) without much danger of utterly destroying the ship because the organic armour is left 'til Last. You can then mothball the ship and repair the non-organic components.

It's a bit gamey playing the AI like this in tactical, but I've given it plenty of help already (Ai has high bonus and 3000 racial points, but I've only taken temporal and then the space wasters trait.) and I need every advantage I can get.

[Aloofi]

I'm sorry, but somebody forgot to post the LINK to the proportions mod.
How the hell I'm suppose to update if I have no LINK?
I guess people around here always forget the NEWBIES.....

[Aloofi]

Don't bother, I found it at the Encyclopedia.
Peter, maybe you should include your page on your signature......