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Old August 17th, 2001, 05:37 PM
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Lord Kodos' battlesuns remind me of the Cordwainer Smith SF story "Golden the Ship Was - Oh! Oh! Oh!". A Golden Ship was 1 AU long; I can't describe what they were capable of without spoiling the story.

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I have been thinking a master computer is not sentient so i am removing its exp capabilitys and instead only HAL9000s can have exp making you have to wait longer.ok heres an idea i am moving orbital rings ringworlds sphereworlds battlesuns,Planetoids,False Meteors And Star Cannons all into a new tech area:megascale engeneering witch requires max levels in : Steller manip Base construction-SHip construction-Planer utilization and several others.i know you may think a battlesun makes it uneven but again like i said space travel is arouis it is very hard tio build takes a lot of time and has to be built in space so ounce you research it and build it all and all its not very good its mainly for defense against Omnipotent species as it is sooo slow it never makes it into a hot zone in time.A new idea for combat terrein depending on a planets terrein they preform differently also i would like real time combat at least for ground they had that in starbound 2 for the macintosh and personaly it was nice its like starcraft meets se4 of course se4 always outranks starbound 2 in every aspect except ground combat.

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aha how do i mod in extra musical scores for the game? and what format must they be because i want to add in these songs in my mod
Xfiles theme-mp3
Zeal city chrono trigger-midi
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I have been thinking a master computer is not sentient so i am removing its exp capabilitys and instead only HAL9000s can have exp making you have to wait longer.



I sure would like to know how you have "removed" an ability hardcoded into the "Master Computer" ability in the game.
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i havent done it yet and i didint know its hardcocded aghhh sj help me i need a penealty for master computer what what can i make it be!!?

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some brand new coorparation ideas and components for me and you

Ship sizes

Leisure cruiser:increases a systems happiness

facilitys
COnstrusction yard:a space yard
Corparate HQ:increases a planets happiness one pere system
Amusement park:increases happiness


and im thinking of adding a new tech tree Puppeteer tech you get planetoids from the start and very efficient designs saand such but low physical stregnth and the lot

News on some new components

Nova engine:insane speed but a very low hp very large and eats a lot of fuel
Slipstream engine pens up a one way warpoint and then closes it:if possible if not if just opens the one way warp point
Louis/e-14 Racing engines:much like a nova engine however isint as fast

i decided to make a starcannon a extremely large comonent for bases that way we can have a more death star sort of feel to things ,course they only fit on a Starcannon sized base anyway so no worrys about bulding a gweo orbital ring thewn counquering a planet just to have the ring destroy the planet in youre face

i was wondering can i create a sort of psychic warning beacon like i dunno a mine that does no damage but changes a ships orders thus a non violent way to keep the rif raff out of youre system hey we can even create intersteller dance clubs with psionic beacons for bouncers


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i havent done it yet and i didint know its hardcocded aghhh sj help me i need a penealty for master computer what what can i make it be!!?



Well, I'm not sj, but here are a few quick ideas off the top of my head...

Maybe just slap a -10% attack/defense penalty on master computers (explain it away by saying the computer is slower to react and less tactically adept that human counterparts). Kind of a quick and dirty solution, and I say this assuming the -10 penalty would stack with other attack/defense components on the ship (seems like they would, but I don't know). You could also jack up the tonnage of basic master computers, but that would make the Hal computers less special, and basically just extend the master computer component tree. Giving HAL att/def bonuses would also work, but IMO not quite as well. You could also make Hal equivilent to a 60 odd person security station, since he has already proven his ability to use ship systems to cause human fatalities

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