Proportions Mod Versions 2.5.2 and 2.5.3 available

oleg · #1 March 26th, 2003, 12:55 PM

I never been able to use Light Missiles effectively.

May be I just not good in ship design

PvK · #2 March 27th, 2003, 09:37 AM

They need to be combined with the heavies. I've beaten technologically superior (bonus'ed) beam-armed AI Druschockans who had been wiping out my direct-fire ships, by engaging them with greater numbers of mostly small cheap missile ships with a mix of missile types.

PvK

klausD · #3 April 21st, 2003, 01:08 AM

Could somebody please tell me if it is possible to develope a race which can only invest in its own unique tech structures and not in the normal standard SE4 tech structure?

This would be fine, because if this is possible a race could be totally different from others. (other ships sizes, different facility structures and builtup strategy - eg hives instead of cities, other units types than the others etc.)

thanks for the info
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KlausD

oleg · #4 April 21st, 2003, 01:36 AM

you will have to do something like Pirates or Nomads in Pirates&Nomads mod or Space Monsters in Devnull mod. Basically you make all normal tech a new racial trait and give it to all races except few unique races !

Suicide Junkie · #5 April 21st, 2003, 03:53 AM

Precisely.

1) Copy the applicable components and adjust their abilities as desired. Add a racial tech requirement.
2) Delete the original components.
3) Set the new racial trait to start at tech level 1, so the critical components like bridges and spaceports are available right from turn #1.

Note that this will invalidate all of your EMP files, and the AIs will have to be modded to pick one of the new racial traits.

[ April 21, 2003, 02:55: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

klausD · #6 April 21st, 2003, 10:29 AM

many thanks for your prompt reply.
klausD

QuarianRex · #7 April 21st, 2003, 07:54 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Aloofi:
Also, this uber-missile benefits mostly the AI, cause we humans know that pound by pound missiles are not worth the effort. They weight too much and reload too slow. Even the lowly Meson BLaster is a better weapon.

Do you really think so? I have always found the stackable damage of missiles to be quite painful against things like leaky shields, since you tend to have a lot more damage hollowing out the hull before the shields have a chance to compensate.