New SJ mod

[Phoenix-D]

And if you reduce the number of points, you change the min/maxing equation. These empires would be competing against each other- if getting to 125 Aggressiveness takes 5000 points, it won't be done by anyone, and it won't be suicidal not to.

[Suicide Junkie]

I believe I mentioned somewhere in the thread that I've clamped down the to-hit modifiers.
I'm thinking a max of 10% due to racial setup, and steep prices all around.
Repair skill has the potential to go double or triple (max 999%) with a pretty low cost per point. Should come in handier with the repair drones and leaky everything, too.

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Ship training only goes up to 6% at level 3, proceeds at one percent per planet.
It also takes up two facility slots per planet, so its a bit more expensive.
If you want 2% per turn, you can always do the planet/moon thing, but then you need a small or better moon, and you use Four facility slots on the project.

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At the moment, I've axed all the racial Tech areas.

Religious did have some cool stuff, so there is still a "System Ecological Center" and a System Counter-intel facility with some name I forget already.
They're going to be standard techs though.

I will probably add some more in later. Possibly making the "solid" shield tech racial, and perhaps some leaky organic armor style stuff would be cool as a racial tech.
The minor racial techs from P&N will probably find room here. "Tiny race", "Advanced Automation", and "Think Big" are pretty universally useful.

[ January 05, 2004, 03:45: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

It also takes up two facility slots per planet, so its a bit more expensive.

you mean one for fleets and one for ships?

[spoon]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
I believe I mentioned somewhere in the thread that I've clamped down the to-hit modifiers.

Good!

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
It also takes up two facility slots per planet, so its a bit more expensive.

How do you do that?

[spoon]

Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
And if you reduce the number of points, you change the min/maxing equation. These empires would be competing against each other- if getting to 125 Aggressiveness takes 5000 points, it won't be done by anyone, and it won't be suicidal not to.

Changing the costs of the characteristics, yes, but just reducing the number of points available to shop with, not really. In vanilla, you have to be able to hit the 120 berserkers, since they will always crop up (due to their effectiveness). Moot, though, for this mod discusion, since the point costs were in fact changed - something I missed earlier.

[Suicide Junkie]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:

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It also takes up two facility slots per planet, so its a bit more expensive.

you mean one for fleets and one for ships?

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There is one facility for the "Academy Classrooms" which has a training rate of zero, but a maximum training amount of 3,5 or 6%
Then there is an "Academy Lab", which provides zero maximum, and 1% rate.

On any particular planet, you get the best of each. So if you have only one facility, you get squat, but if you have both you get 1% rate up to 3/5/6%

[spoon]

heh, early contender for clever modding trick of the year...