Some of my ideas and questions

[Baron Munchausen]

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Originally posted by Lord Kodos:
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.

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I sure would like to know how you have "removed" an ability hardcoded into the "Master Computer" ability in the game.

[Lord Kodos]

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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[Lord Kodos]

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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Some rule some serve
some declare wars some
fight them
i declare wars i rule
you serve you fight
wars.....
we are not the same.....
never forget that..

[Mad_Lear]

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Originally posted by Lord Kodos:
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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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

[Lord Kodos]

LOL i like that boarding defense idea i may just be nerevy enough gto do it. i wish that you could make a certain component longer to repair then others because with a hal 9000 sure repairing it is ieasy but thn it must be reeducated and stuff like that...

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Some rule some serve
some declare wars some
fight them
i declare wars i rule
you serve you fight
wars.....
we are not the same.....
never forget that..

[Lord Kodos]

Well some news related to y mod the first being i intend to include a map of vectoria prime as well as Larry nivens Known space (oh yeah i finally read ringwolrd it was supurb)also only the species included in the mod will be compatible as there will be a number of new ship pictures just the Planetoid and the battle moon and the infantrys and the starcannon and a lot more... but i need an artist as well any takers? i also will include a Puppeteers AI with it becuase i may include a puppeteerts shipset but i have no ideas on what their ships look like i may even include the general products company

also i need an idea of a known space map how far away is kzin to earth and things like that?

[Suicide Junkie]

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also only the species included in the mod will be compatible as there will be a number of new ship pictures just the Planetoid and the battle moon and the infantrys and the starcannon and a lot more...

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Pictures don't make AIs incompatible.

What you do is put some pictures into the default AI folder: if a race has the pic, SE uses it, otherwise it goes to the default.

See P&N v2 RE: battlemoons.

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