Balance Mod Available for SE:V

[Kamog]

Thank you, Captain Kwok. I very much appreciate, and I'm grateful for, all the work you are doing with the Balance Mod. I don't play stock SEV; I only play Balance Mod.

[fabio80mi]

Thank you!

[Kamog]

When you place an emergency propulsion on a ship design, a warning appears that you can only have one emergency energy component on the vehicle, even if it's the only one on the ship.

Can you please look at this? Thanks!

[Captain Kwok]

Greetings...

There was a small problem with one of the default AI files and so you should re-download the mod to fix:

http://www.captainkwok.net/balancemod.php

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I'll check out the emergency propulsion component.

[Saber Cherry]

Thanks for the new version! I've been looking forward to the AI improvements. Hopefully they will attack me and build research labs now. Incidentally, and I don't know whether you addressed this or not, but in 1.09 the AI would refuse any gift I offered them. Sometimes they would even request an economic loan or military aid, but if I replied with an appropriate gift of resources or ships, they would reject it.

I don't know if you have to pay for bandwidth, or have bandwidth limits, but after unzipping the mod and AI files together, I was able to recompress the entire 1.10+ folder down to 3.32 MB using 7-zip (in the 7z format)... FYI.


Edit. Small text bug:

Ability 3 Type := Description Only
Ability 3 Description := Small Fighters can only have a maximum of 4 engines.

(...)

Requirement 4 Description := Small Fighters can only have a maximum of 2 engines.
Requirement 4 Formula := Get_Design_Ability_Component_Count("Movement Standard") <= 2

[Ironmanbc]

I don't have 7-zip, I use WINRAR.

[AstralWanderer]

Ironmanbc said:
I don't have 7-zip, I use WINRAR.

IZArc, TugZip and ZipGenius can handle Rar, 7-Zip, Zip, Ace and numerous other formats. They are all free so it makes good sense to use the most efficient compression option available.

[fdlu]

Captain Kwok said:
Greetings!

The next version of the Balance Mod is finally available. There's been a ton of fixes/revisions to both the data files and AI. Note that v1.10 is not save game compatible with previous Balance Mod versions and it requires the latest version of SE:V to run.

Download it here:
http://www.captainkwok.net/balancemod.php

Version 1.10 (14 October 2007)
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23. Changed - Increased maximum size of Medium Freighter hulls to 800kT
24. Changed - Increased maximum size of Large Freighter hulls to 1200kT
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Possible bug ?

Just fired up a game to see the new "goodies" (light/heavy armor etc.) with all tech points enabled.

Noticed in ship sizes that the freighters (at lvl 3) were at 400 / 700 / 1000 kt for small/medium/large.

[Arralen]

AstralWanderer said:
Ironmanbc said:
I don't have 7-zip, I use WINRAR.
IZArc, TugZip and ZipGenius can handle *numerous* formats. They are all free so it makes good sense to use the most efficient compression option available.

Why use a poor substitute to the real thing - especially if it's free and opensource anyway?
http://www.7-zip.org/


Btw., Kwok, thanks for your mod - it makes an abysmal game usuable, what is quite a feat !!

[Saber Cherry]

Arralen said:
Btw., Kwok, thanks for your mod - it makes an abysmal game usuable, what is quite a feat !!

Agreed.



Another bug (?) in Settings.txt:

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Minimum Number Of Systems Small Quadrant := 20
Maximum Number Of Systems Small Quadrant := 50
Minimum Number Of Systems Medium Quadrant := 50
Maximum Number Of Systems Medium Quadrant := 100
Minimum Number Of Systems Large Quadrant := 100
Maximum Number Of Systems Large Quadrant := 150
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Minimum Number Of Systems Small Quadrant := 10
Maximum Number Of Systems Small Quadrant := 20
Minimum Number Of Systems Medium Quadrant := 30
Maximum Number Of Systems Medium Quadrant := 60
Minimum Number Of Systems Large Quadrant := 60
Maximum Number Of Systems Large Quadrant := 100
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I assume the second copy will overwrite the first? Not sure which set is intended, but personally, I like the lower numbers better.