My ideas for modding...

[Suicide Junkie]

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As it is in SE4 every race is by default a minerals race b/c virtually everything is made of minerals. Consequently the harvesting of organics or radioactives becomes fairly unimportant and the economy becomes essentially a function of one variable (minerals).

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In P&N v2, especially at higher tech levels, radioactives are as important (or more) as minerals. This makes monoliths useful, and Organic tech/Living ship races spread the costs to organics as well, giving them a bigger advantage with monoliths.

[Arc.Smiloid]

Its a good thing I'm good at math and mental gymnastics.

Lucretius, you have the basic idea but siege class ships replace LC and C. Capitol ships are BC, BB, DN.

Siege chasis are cheap, easy to hit, terrible offense*,and their siege weapons occupy most of their available tonnage with little structure. Siege ships will be slightly weaker than superiority ships even though they are bigger. Thus, giving a ship orders to attack the weakest ships will make them target the siege ships over the superiority ships.

*Because of the innate area-effect of siege weaponry, they always hit. Thus negating the siege-class' useless offense. All other weapons except missiles are useless.

Things are balancing out pretty well so far. I've even implemented a quasi-newtonian propulsion system.

Aside from planning all this, I'm trying to figure out what to name this mod.

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[Arc.Smiloid]

Why does the AI consider a mere 8 range to be maximum weapons range when the ship is carrying a gun with 10+ range?

The dumb siege ships are sitting, stupid ducks for even capitol class ships!

Hmmmm....

Although Capitol Ships are slightly faster in combat, the siege ships aren't keeping safe distance and get ripped to shreds.

Gotta play around with some stuff.

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[capnq]

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Why does the AI consider a mere 8 range to be maximum weapons range when the ship is carrying a gun with 10+ range?

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Does the ship have other weapons besides the 10+ range? For example, a 10+ with reload 3 plus an 8 with reload 1? It might be thinking "maximum range of weapons ready to fire".

My modding attempts are less ambitious. I'm currently playtesting a new quadrant type. I'm slowly progressing on an AI or three as well.

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Cap'n Q

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

[This message has been edited by capnq (edited 08 September 2001).]

[Baron Munchausen]

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Originally posted by Arc.Smiloid:
Why does the AI consider a mere 8 range to be maximum weapons range when the ship is carrying a gun with 10+ range?

The dumb siege ships are sitting, stupid ducks for even capitol class ships!

Hmmmm....

Although Capitol Ships are slightly faster in combat, the siege ships aren't keeping safe distance and get ripped to shreds.

Gotta play around with some stuff.

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There was a problem with mounts several patches ago where the AI would not recognize the extended range granted by a mount. It would think that the 'default' range was the only range that the weapon had and not fire until the target got within the default range of the weapon. I had thought that was fixed, but you never know when some odd change might re-create an old bug.

[This message has been edited by Baron Munchausen (edited 08 September 2001).]

[Arc.Smiloid]

Only gun, 10+ default range.

I even tried giving it a minimum range of 8. But they always go to range 8 and end up not being able to attack at all.

Hopefully its a simple fix and MM can take care of it for the upcoming patch. Seems like a major bug to me.

I'll be carrying on with the tech trees meanwhile.

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[Phoenix-D]

What's the secondary stratagy? For maximum range, that is by default point blank, which is in my opinion rather stupid.

Phoenix-D