Star Wars Mod - II (Sci-Fi Xover Mod)

[Urendi Maleldil]

Has there been any thought of adding stuff from other scifi universes after the babtrekwars stuff is compiled?

[Val]

Honor Harrington: Puke was talking about this at one point, don't know if anyone is working on it though.

Starfire Universe: Pres Elect Shang was talking about this boardgame (if I remember correctly) that was the inspiration for SE IV, would be fitting to be added at some point No work on this as far as I know.

Battlestar Gallactica: Cyclons and Colonials are both viable, though there aren't any special weapons for them as of yet.

Andromeda: Someone mentioned this in passing, but nothing has been said about it since.

[Phoenix-D]

"Honor Harrington: Puke was talking about this at one point, don't know if anyone is working on it though."

That would be.. hard. HH shields/drives are fairly bizzare- the front and back are *totally unshielded* while the top and bottom are invincible. Plus the laser-head missles (drones?), and of course the dual-FTL system- warp points *and* hyper drive FTL.

EDIT: that and the difference between ship sizes (a dreadnaught has *40 times* the firepower of a destroyer)- at one point, a single dreadnaught kills four battlecruisers in a single broadside. Ow. That was pure firepower, no manuvering..

Not saying it couldn't be done, but it would be difficult. Especially since SE4 doesn't have weapon/ship facing effects.

Phoenix-D

[ 29 January 2002: Message edited by: Phoenix-D ]

[Urendi Maleldil]

Adding Wing Commander stuff shouldn't be hard.

[Andrés]

Sounds good. Adding anything is possible if someone is willing to help creating the mod.
We need ships sizes, weapons, engines, sensors, shields or whatever other components they use.

No one has voluntered to help with the Star Trek part so far. I thought there were many Trekkies around.

Maybe we get to add Honor Harrington, Starfire, Battlestar Gallactica, Andromeda, Robotech, Flash Gordon and Wing Commander before.

[Andrés]

Here's the starwars Version of ECM.
Since it also works against yourself, it explains (and includes) the "targeting penalty" of sw weapons.
When both sides have jamming sensors, stacked Sensor interference can be quite large.
To prevent abuse of stacking I made it available only to ships and bases and added the One Per Vehicle restriction, so you can only have heavy jamming when large fleets are involved.


Name := Jamming Sensor I
Description := Device used to fill nearby space with static and random signals, blinding combat sensors, however they also work against yourself.
Pic Num := 13
Tonnage Space Taken := 20
Tonnage Structure := 20
Cost Minerals := 600
Cost Organics := 0
Cost Radioactives := 400
Vehicle Type := Ship\Base
Supply Amount Used := 0
Restrictions := One Per Vehicle
General Group := Sensors
Family := 19
Roman Numeral := 0
Custom Group := 0
Number of Tech Req := 1
Tech Area Req 1 := Sensor Countermeasures
Tech Level Req 1 := 1
Number of Abilities := 1
Ability 1 Type := Sector - Sensor Interference
Ability 1 Descr := Makes targeting 10% harder in the sector. Be careful when using many jamming sensors in the same sector since their effect stacks.
Ability 1 Val 1 := 10
Ability 1 Val 2 := 0
Weapon Type := None

[Andrés]

We've already discussed about propulsion, most of the other techs are pretty straight forward weapons, shields, ect.
But there are a few techs I'm not sure how or if to add

Ion Beams (and Ionic Torps)
Normal damage against shields, disable unshielded ships (can't move, can't shoot). Used to make boarding by a relative vulnerable shuttle a piece of cake.
Large ion cannon emplacements are the only "weapon platform" weapon seen in star wars.