Devnull Mod Gold: updates and discussion

Rollo · #1 July 3rd, 2003, 05:59 PM

Pablo - that is the way contructed planets work in SE4. Same with Ringworlds and Sphereworlds. Unless I am missing something, that cannot be modded out.

Atrocities - I am not quite certain what you mean. Could you be a bit more specific?

Rollo

Toryin · #2 July 3rd, 2003, 11:14 PM

So far, most of what I've incorporated into the devnull that I'm playing, is a lot of Deathstalkers MountMod 1.40, and several tweaks to the galaxy generation. Even so I ended up adjusting the numbers of the mount mods to make it more "playable".

For example, I removed Missile Miniaturization (put it into SRMs) and then balanced cost, versus suppiles, versus size, etc...

I also added in the various shield mods, LRMs, and Engine Mounts. With normal components for all the mods, AI interuption is minimal (except in the case of the gatling mount, which I no longer use).

In most cases the AI doesn't use any of the mods, cept the SRMs.

If anyone wants the info, I'll pass along more indepth observations.

Cheers

mac5732 · #3 July 4th, 2003, 04:35 AM

Rollo, the only combat sounds I get is the pinging noise, I don't even get any of the regular combat sounds, also in the Del mod folder is monsterchant and another chant, I dont' get them in the game either, these two work as when I open them in the file they give gozzilla's scream and the tommahawk chant, Confused?????
The Delv mod does have a sound folder but only the monsterchant and tommahawk chant are in there, don't even get the normal combat sounds

Kwok, I have TDM and it has all the combat sounds, I just can't seem to get them in Delvmod, I put the sounds like you said into the mod/sounds/new folder and it still didn't work, do I have to take each sound out of the new and actually put them individually under sounds outside of the new folder????

Mac

[ July 04, 2003, 04:16: Message edited by: mac5732 ]

Krsqk · #4 July 4th, 2003, 06:12 AM

You should be able to get away with putting the sounds in the default \sounds\new folder. Maybe even the default \sounds folder, just to be thorough. You can delete the mod \sounds folder if you want, although I don't think it's necessary with the latest patch.

mac5732 · #5 July 7th, 2003, 06:48 AM

I found the problem, there is/was a sound folder inside the Mod. I transferred it to the SE4 sound folder, then deleted the folder out of the DelMod, and everything is now ok, at least so far, tks for those who helped out

just some ideas Mac

Binford · #6 July 10th, 2003, 10:34 PM

OK folks, devnull3 is wrapping up, and I am wanting to go ahead and post the signup for devnull4! Hope all of you will play!

August marks almost a full year of ongoing PBW devnull games going. Let's keep it up...

I added devnull4 to PBW JUST NOW, please post suggestions for game settings.

Binford

[ July 10, 2003, 21:48: Message edited by: Binford ]

1FSTCAT · #7 July 11th, 2003, 08:56 PM

I wanted to let everyone know that I greatly enjoyed my first game of Devnull 3. Binford was a major challenge, and the only other player I sparred with, quit, so I didn't get a real good feel for some of the new combat features.

As I have always felt, this game reinforced for me how unbalancing the Talisman is. I'm not sure what Binford had to do to get it, but it's INCREDIBLY difficult to fight against. Maybe instead of it providing an ABSOLUTE to-hit, it could just add a significant bonus to hit?

Fortunately, the Devnull Mod is more equally balanced, since a player can take advantage of some of the better mounts, which provide a significant bonus to-hit. That combined with a more accurate weapon can really help level the field.

I would be interested in joining the new game. Please make the galaxy smaller this time around, though, as managing 250-300 planets is just a royal pain for me.