"Racial" Technology

[Lemmy]

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Originally posted by Q:
Honestly I do not care about realism in this game. I just find it much more interesting if there are races that have a completely different technology. So I really want it to keep it as it is now.

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if you really want different race to have different technology you could make all of the weapon tech a racial trait which cost maybe 500 racial points or so...but then i don't know if the ai will use them, i have no idea how the ai chooses racial techs...

[Nitram Draw]

I like the idea of totally different techs. It give the game flavor. I wish there were more differences not less. Why should every races discover the same basic items. Why do the EEE need minerals for example, aren't they like an energy based race? Why do are all the races ship hulls made out of the same material?
If I had two wishes about this game it would be an AI as good as a human, very hard to do, and much more varied races, a possibility.

[Suicide Junkie]

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If I had two wishes about this game it would be an AI as good as a human, very hard to do, and much more varied races, a possibility.

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As for the Eee, if they're made of energy, give them a racial tech choice (just like the "Not A Pirate" thing) that gives them access to ship hulls & components that require almost no minerals, but lots of radioactives.
For any organic race, give them new hulls & components that are primarily composed of organics.
Crystalline races should be getting more expensive mineral-based components, with say, 3x the hitpoints (for non-armor components)

Just make 4 copies of most of the components - SE4 shouldn't mind until you get up to 32k or 64k components (since it's past 256 already, its likely integer based or better)
- one copy is normal, the others are resouce specific (more Minerals/ all organic / all radioactives)

Any other general changes you think of could be added in the same way.

Note that those changes above might encourage trade, since each race will be specializing in one resource, they can trade for the other two, at a net gain for both sides.

[Nitram Draw]

I think there is a limint to the number of components. I had creaqted a number of pirate components and a lot did not show up until I reduced the number of them. I don't know what the limit would be but IIRC I could only get ~320 components to show up in the component window when creating a ship.

[Suicide Junkie]

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I think there is a limit to the number of components. I had created a number of pirate components and a lot did not show up until I reduced the number of them. I don't know what the limit would be but IIRC I could only get ~320 components to show up in the component window when creating a ship.

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There is definitely a limit, but it is for sure going to be a power of 2, likely a power of 2^8= 1 byte.
1 byte =2^8= 256
2 bytes = 2^16 = 64k = 65,536

Might the problem be in the component window itself? Did you try using the "only show latest" button? That would determine whether it is the window not showing all the components, or the components not getting loaded.
Also, Component cut-off is usually due to extra blank lines in the text file.

[Daynarr]

When I was making my Mega Mod i had 652 components and they all showed up. You most likely have an extra line somewhere that makes game ignore all following entries.

[Nitram Draw]

Probably a blank line. I ain't the most detailed oriented fellow