How about Newtonian engines as standard?

Phoenix-D · #1 December 2nd, 2001, 08:51 AM

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But it gets quite bothersome to plug incredible amounts of engines onto large ships

Make bigger engines.

The AI doesn't use them well, but that can be fixed too, with enough fiddling.

Phoenix-D

Zarix · #2 December 2nd, 2001, 06:49 PM

The current system is pretty good but unrealistic. The balance is right with small ships getting defensive bonus and big ships getting mounts.

The most unrealistic thing is that movement of large ships is only restricted by cutting down the number of engines on them. The Newtonian movement would hit the spot because it would allow making large ships fast if you wanted to spent more resources on them.

But I think there won't be many changes to SE4 anymore. Maybe they could be in a mod or SE5.

Phoenix-D · #3 December 2nd, 2001, 08:24 PM

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Maybe they could be in a mod or SE5.

Pirates and Nomads
TechMod

That's at *least* two with newtonian movement..

Phoenix-D

Zarix · #4 December 2nd, 2001, 09:57 PM

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Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
Pirates and Nomads
TechMod

I need to check those. If I remember right SE3 had a system where larger ships had to have more engines to get same movement. Wonder why it was changed.

Phoenix-D · #5 December 2nd, 2001, 10:17 PM

Making a SE3 style system is even easier, since you don't ahve to fiddle with the engines.

I decided to make a Newton mod; right now it just needs AI. Good practice for when I start working on TechMod again, and I'm sure there are people out there that would like to use Newtonian movement, but standard SE4 otherwise.

Phoenix-D

Phoenix-D · #6 December 3rd, 2001, 12:41 AM

OK, here it is. Standard SE4, Sir Isaac Newton style.

Now Version 1.1.. more complete, less filling! (patched the neutral AIs, removed excess files)

1007333287.zip

Phoenix-D

[ 02 December 2001: Message edited by: Phoenix-D ]

Skulky · #7 December 3rd, 2001, 03:32 AM

Another idea to help solve the engine problem and give people option to make larger engines (not just 10 kt) some that could be as much as 30 or 40 and would cost a lot higher to allow people to put on larger/more expensive engines that would give a ship greater movement (like instead of 6 could give 20 bonus moves)