Masters Mod v1.7 ( May the Masters be with You )

[Urendi Maleldil]

...I'd be interested in joining a PBW game should you set one up...

Unfortunately, I don't play much over PBW. (Hence the AI friendliness of this mod.) Don't let that stop you from setting up your own game though. There are some techs, like the Rocket Boosters, Hyperdrive, Smoke Screen Generator, and Small & Medium Ringworlds that can only be used by humans. And only a human player will be able to use the Drones and Fighters to their maximum effectiveness.

...the different traits seem quite inspired by Stars!

I liked Stars!, and I took a little bit of inspiration from there, but these traits are all SE4. Too bad you can't mod in Alternate Reality, Mineral Packets, Stargates, and Stars!-style mine fields.

Have you thought about adding traits for races that are the opposite of masters?

I don't think it's possible, since there's no way to make a racial trait remove stock techs. I'm going to add more Master traits in version 2, and I'm also toying with the idea of adding in things like "Star Wars" Master traits.

[Captain Kwok]

I was thinking in terms of movement or supply penalties etc. that players could choose in order to grab a few more masters traits...

[Ed Kolis]

Hey, weren't you the one who made the Pointer Mod, Urendi? I loved that mod... what ever happened to it?

[Urendi Maleldil]

Pointer Mod's still sitting on my hard drive. I can re-post it again if you want a copy. It was too much of a beast to keep developing.

I wanted to write AI for it, since all I play is single player, but I'd have to write all new AI research files from scratch, since the tech tree had been completely re-written. The Masters mod incorporates a few ideas from the Pointer Mod.