SE IV Gold: Starting tech levels? Yes or No?

Phoenix-D · #1 December 6th, 2001, 10:22 PM

Maybe. But I wouldn't want to see it done SE3 style.

Why? Well, SE3 setup, each tech level was one point. No matter if it cost 5000 research points once in-game or 10000000000000, pre-game it was the same. IMO, that was a bad idea.

Phoenix-D

dmm · #2 December 6th, 2001, 10:37 PM

A scenario editor (savegame file editor) would accomplish exactly what you're asking for (with a little bit of work), plus a whole lot more. Let's ask for that!

[edit: And you wouldn't be hard-coded into one person's idea of how starting tech levels should work.]

[ 06 December 2001: Message edited by: dmm ]

Captain Kwok · #3 December 6th, 2001, 11:32 PM

I think there's a little bit of misunderstanding.

You wouldn't have to edit the files.

You can keep the current SEIV racial trait system etc., and just have the starting tech levels as a free option to give particular technologies to a race at the start of a game...it would be quite useful for roleplaying and making scenarios...and you could even make really challenging games against the AI for yourself.

Captain Kwok · #4 December 6th, 2001, 11:35 PM

A scenario editor would be nice but would take some time for Aaron to program. However, using starting tech levels it would be fairly easy to create decent scenarios - and if the map editor was slightly changed so you could assign multiple planets to a player that would almost be as good as a scenario editor...

bearclaw · #5 December 7th, 2001, 12:01 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
Maybe. But I wouldn't want to see it done SE3 style.

Why? Well, SE3 setup, each tech level was one point. No matter if it cost 5000 research points once in-game or 10000000000000, pre-game it was the same. IMO, that was a bad idea.

Phoenix-D

I have to agree to this to a point. I liked the SE3 option of choosing starting techs and I agree that 1 point per level made it unbalanced. I would love to see the option for choosing starting techs based on their Research point cost per level. Say, start a game where everyone could start with 500,000 research points max. worth of tech. That could be just one more colonizing type or some pretty nifty weapons. I think that any more than 500,000 and you might as well play a max tech game.

Just my opinion.

evader · #6 December 7th, 2001, 02:42 AM

defintly need something along those lines. As it stands now the game starts out too slow.

if its 1 point per tech or what I don't care. Just give us some control over starting tech please

Atrocities · #7 December 7th, 2001, 03:24 AM

A lot of these ideas may not be included with Gold, but the more people support Aaron the greater the chance that they will all be included in SE V if produced.