Organic & Crystal vehicle differences?

[Fyron]

Crystalline hulls swap minerals for radioactives. There were plans to do a lot more than just have organic/crystalline hulls, but it was scaled back for various reasons.

[Ragnarok-X]

Is there no special abilty for crystalline and organic hulls ?!

[Dizzy]

Crystalline hulls have some beam weapon save modifiers among a few select other things including greater maintenance discounts.

[Fyron]

You may be thinking of the Balance Mod, where Kwok did indeed add some abilities to the hulls. In stock, the organic and crystalline hulls are the same as normal hulls. The sizes of the hulls are identical as well, in stock. Organic DN is the same exact size as normal DN, as is Crystalline DN. The only difference is in hull costs.

[Dizzy]

Ahhh, my bad, fryon caught me! I use kwoks balance mod. Oopsie! Just trying to help. Didnt stop to think I had modded data files!

[Slick]

Which begs the question as to how different they should be. These shifts in cost go a little way toward making these ships faster to produce, as any shift away from minerals will do. But Organic and Crystal races already have this advantage with their unique components. The question is: Should there be any other teeny advantages to these ships that go with your expenditure of those set-up points? Maybe some offsetting disadvantages too, since the normal vehicles are still available to these races. After all, 2 whole separate sets of ships and units for slight modification of resource costs doesn't seem like a worthwile difference. Of course, nothing unbalancing should be contemplated, just "sauce for the goose".

[Raapys]

Personally I think that stuff should work like 3 exclusively different 'ways'; i.e. someone's organic, someone's crystal'ish, and others are good old metal.

At least with Kwok's mod, the races with these traits stop building normal ships, armor and weapons when they research their traits anyway, so why not just make them start with it but not have access to the 'metal' technology theme.

[Spoo]

Imperator Fyron said:
You may be thinking of the Balance Mod, where Kwok did indeed add some abilities to the hulls. In stock, the organic and crystalline hulls are the same as normal hulls. The sizes of the hulls are identical as well, in stock. Organic DN is the same exact size as normal DN, as is Crystalline DN. The only difference is in hull costs.

Not quite.

Regular dreadnoughts:

Tonnage Space Formula := 1250 + (([%Level%] - 1) * 50)

Organic/Crystalline dreadnaouhgts

Tonnage Space Formula := 1250 + (([%Level%] - 1) * 100)

[Fyron]

Heh, guess I didn't look closely enough. That is really weird... wonder if it was intentional to do just one size like that, or if it was a transcription error.

[Moriarty]

Personally I suspect that the organic ships would have had some sort of self-healing ability.
That's what organic ships traditionally get anyway.