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[Atrocities]

Fyron made the post I believe. Past that I do not recall much other than it was dicussed heavily.

[Loser]

I believe that putting a damage value for ranges all the way up to 21 will make a missle keep going until it hits its target, but I haven't tried that.

Neutral races can only have technologies available to everyone else, and only get unmodified racial charactaristics, I believe.

However, you can make interesting non-neutral AIs that will stay in their system by only supplying ship designs that will not explore, like defensive ships. They will only leave their homesystems if they are given system maps of other systems, as non-exploring ships will not corss warp points that lead to the unknown. I don't immidiately recall all the specifics of this 'bottled demon' style AI, but it has been discussed somewhere.

[Q]

Neutrals can have and use racial technologies if you include them in their AI files. You can even create special super technologies for them to make them stronger: global production center (facility that produces all resources), universal colony module (all planet types can be colonized from the beginning of the game), cheap atmosphere converter and so on. In standard SE IV this is just not used.

[Aiken]

Loser is right about infinite distance missile.
Example from the SJ's Gritty Economy mod which has infinite range missiles:
Weapon Type := Seeking
Weapon Target := Ships
Weapon Damage At Rng := 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100

So, as you see, they have to fire at range 21.

[Deathstalker]

Thanks guys, been playing a bit lately (in between diaper changes, lol) and have taken a liking to having 4 AI's and 10+ neutrals on a high/max bonus setting. Been fun seeing the Flora and the Tesselite duke it out while I try to protect the neutrals. (nasty AI's those).

[Paul1980au]

What expanded role can we see for neutrals in SE5 - suggestions welcomed.

[Gryphin]

Couple of other Modding Neutral Threads:
A few more ideas on the subject
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...3;t=009521;p=2
A few more ideas on the subject
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...=008920#000007

Neutrals Building Repair Ships
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...193;p=2#000019

Maybe a Neutral that built fast very strong drones that could reach anywhere in one or two turns. This combined with an active warp mining activety could be nasty.
I always wondered what a Neutral would do if it had warp point openers. Imagine if it spent the game making random warp point connections?

[ July 21, 2004, 12:00: Message edited by: Gryphin ]