Need help/ideas

geoschmo · #1 June 18th, 2001, 09:23 PM

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Originally posted by Baal:
Holy Protection: A PDC weapon with range one; 65 damage; 0 reload rate. Makes you impervious to missiles.

Can you make a weapon with 0 reload rate. I have heard it suggested before, but has it been tested to see if it works? And if you could, would you want to? This one seems a bit unbalancing in my mind.

I like the other two though. It has always seemed a little off to me that the religous ship components all seem to be offensive in nature.

Geo

[This message has been edited by geoschmo (edited 18 June 2001).]

Suicide Junkie · #2 June 18th, 2001, 09:31 PM

quote:
Holy Protection: A PDC weapon with range one; 65 damage; 0 reload rate. Makes you impervious to missiles.

If you're gonna have a reload rate of zero, make the damage 999, so you don't have to wait as long when a stack of 50 fighters comes by.
The zero-reload PDC will continuously fire until all targets are dead, so you might as well speed up the death part

Baal · #3 June 18th, 2001, 09:46 PM

Good idea with the 999 dmaage. I haven't tried giving a weapon o reload rate. As for balancing it would be pretty bad. How about a smaller PDC, maybe 10 kt, that does 65 damage at 1 range, so you can pack more PDC on. OR you could make the zero reload rate weapon huge, like 200 kt.

Godspeed Engine: 2 movements per engine, 15 kt, requires twice as many supply per engine per movement so as to keep it balanced.

PvK · #4 June 19th, 2001, 12:58 AM

In order to make a racial AND unique tech, try making the unique levels require have prerequisites that are the unique tech. That way, all races won't get the unique/racial techs.

For religious, slightly better but much more expensive Versions of their best facilities would be good. A religious planetary shield might be good too. Also, I can't believe that no one has yet suggested the religious troop weapon: Holy Hand Grenade... <bg>

Oh, and the Armageddon Invocation Facility - greatly _increases_ the chance of bad events - start a small colony in your enemy's system, build one and wait...

PvK

Trachmyr · #5 June 19th, 2001, 01:21 AM

I also suggest for the "Holy Protection" give it the ability to target missiles ONLY, also give it no sound and add a new beam graphic... one that is all black, thus the weapon will not display any effect, missiles just explode harmlessly around the ship.

PsychoTechFreak · #6 June 19th, 2001, 09:15 AM

I think it is impossible at the moment, but it would be nice if we could get something like omnipresent view or a super-obscuration facility/component from ruins. Also I would like to find ships in ruins, which are maybe restricted to changes/repair/upgrades, one of these godly ships should be omnipresent/absolute invisible with one engine which doesn't need fuel and which has unlimited (or almost unlimited) movement. But this ship shouldn't have any weapons, maybe some stellar manipulation stuff.

Taqwus · #7 June 19th, 2001, 03:07 PM

Some other ideas --

Psychic:
An improved happiness generator. +4 or +5 for psy, reduced for non-psy.

Given the existing unique tech, a smaller Neural Net device that includes a small combat bonus. Would only provide the combat bonus for non-psy.

Organic:
Nasty, nasty parasites. In Organic hands, usable as both boarding parties and plague bombs; in non-organic hands, only plague bombs since they don't have quite the same level of control.

Maybe a MC that has some repair ability but a HUGE organic cost. Not sure what it might do with non-orgs, 'tho, except eat them.

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