Proportions Version 2.0 available

[Fyron]

I don't know if you have done this already, but could you put the efficient engines in a different family than the normal engines? It's really annoying to have to remove all of a ship design's engines and re-adding them when upgrading it.

[Gimboid]

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
I don't know if you have done this already, but could you put the efficient engines in a different family than the normal engines? It's really annoying to have to remove all of a ship design's engines and re-adding them when upgrading it.

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It looks like its been done

Normal engines are family 9, the efficient engines are family no. 309, and gravatic drives are a different family again...

[raynor]

What exactly is this? Could you please include a short description of what this is? Thanks!

[Fyron]

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What exactly is this? Could you please include a short description of what this is? Thanks!

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Do you mean component families, or the Proportions Mod?

[Gimboid]

Component families relate to how SEIV Groups components

If u press the upgrade design button then u will see Groups in action as SEIV will attempt to find the most up to date components for all the component Groups on the ship u have selected.

Say for example u finish quantum engines 1 this turn. Then u press upgrade design for one of your ships. Now normally in seiv it upgrades the ships engines (+ any other more modern components) with the latest designs, thus giving u quantum engines on that ship design being upgraded.

If the quantum engines were a different component family to the others then when u pressed upgrade u would have to totally redesign the ship to put the engines on as it wouldnt automatically substitute the newer engines over the older engines on the ship.

[ 31 March 2002: Message edited by: Gimboid ]

[oleg]

Proportion mod changed many cost values for race characteristics. However, AI_general files are imported from standard SE IV. As a result, when AI generates random empire, it is often goes overboard after adding just few characteristics and subsequently drops advanced racial traits (it happens to Abbidon, Ukra-Tal and Xi'chun)

I tried to adjust race points for all races for 2000 start. It may be non-optimal, so please take a look and reassign values according to your taste.

1017577804.zip

Propulsion experts for Sergetti could not be salvaged.

[ 31 March 2002: Message edited by: oleg ]

[Askan Nightbringer]

First off I'll say "WOW". I've had a look and this mod is a radical change that would make for some interestuing strategies.

I've just got one question -

I noticed you can't upgrade cities into metropoli and so forth. To me this seemed like a natural progression thingie.

Cheers,
Askan