SE4 Stock Balance Mod

[spoon]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:

High level Intel ops too effective

Since I have this handy, here are some proposed changes to intel projects I came up with a long time ago. Most changes are minor, so if you want to minimize change to stock files, you can safely ignore em. The major changes are in bold. I think the goal was to make intel more of an info-gathering and less of an empire-crippling endeavor. Since that's not really the goal of this mod, feel free to ignore...

General Espionage
Force Concentrations: Lower cost -- 2,000
Queue Concentrations: Lower cost -- 2,000
Ship Blueprints: Lower cost -- 5,000
Covert Recon: Lower cost -- 2,000
Census Thefts: Lower cost -- 2,000
Technological Espionage: no change (150k)
Embassy Taps: Lower cost -- 2,000
Empire Star Charts: Lower cost -- 5,000
Empire Archives: Lower cost -- 10,000
Unit Blueprints: Lower cost -- 5,000
Tech Reports: no change (20,000)

General Sabotage
Economic Disruption: Increase cost -- 30,000
Resource Procurment: Increase cost -- 30,000; Decrease effect to 5k of each resource (instead of 10k)
Technological Sabotage: Increase cost -- 50,000
Intelligence Sabotage: Lower Cost -- 15,000

Planet Sabotage
Weather Disruptions: Increase Cost -- 30,000
Ground Contamination: no change (20,000)
Food Contamination: Decrease effect to killing 5M population (instead of 100M). Or increase cost to 100,000.
Anarchy Groups: Increase Cost -- 20,000
Puppet Political Parties: Remove, or increase cost to 1,000,000
Cargo Maint. Trouble: (no change)
Industrial Sabotage: no change (25,000)

Political Disruption
Trade Distruption: Remove, or increase cost to 400k
Comm Taps no change (15,000)
Comm Mimic: Remove, or increase cost to 500k
Comm Interceptors: no change (10,000)

Ship Sabotage
Ship Bomb: no change (10,000)
Engine Damage: Lower cost -- 5000
Fuel Leak: no change (10,000)
Crew Insurrection: Remove, or increase cost to 100k
Crew Rotation: no change (5,000)
Cargo Bomb: Increase cost -- 7,500
Order Snafu: Lower Cost -- 5,000

[ July 23, 2003, 23:54: Message edited by: spoon ]