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Organize and track all modding changes to Sword of the Stars (mine and 3rd party)

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Phase 1 tweaks #102

Closed matthewhively closed 4 years ago

matthewhively commented 4 years ago

[x] set human initial distance to 10. If you set average distance to 9LY.... don't want to get screwed.

~Refueling is annoying with the extended range... but no decent way around that.~

[x] Moving the asteroid monitors to their current position makes it impossible to get "peace" on neutral discovery. Might want to move the range back out a tad and maybe increase the weapon grace period. (40... 50)? Is 50 good? Looks like not quite, gave it another 100 distance too. Lets see if that works reliably.
[x] Change the trade route activation time back down. 10 turns is too much. (try 6 turns?)... nope try 4
[x] Revert removed 1st level "drive" requirements for engine sections. These are actually required for retreat timers.

matthewhively commented 4 years ago

~I should create several test games (on various map types) with humans as all players. (mostly allied to make this faster). Document what the node distances are each time and I can set their baseline range to ASSURE that they WON'T get screwed 95% of the time.~

~I may need to choose a LY configuration that this mod is designed for and stick with that. Perhaps 9LY is no good.~

matthewhively commented 4 years ago

~CRITICAL The Human, Morrigi, Tarka, Liir AI 100% broken when the ER range is too small. The Zuul AI may not be broken (difficult to tell), and hiver AI is unknown. To be safe the scaling needs to be adjusted so that they are guaranteed to be able to reach at least a few destination stars without tankers.~

matthewhively commented 4 years ago

~ABANDON the scaling approach for ER ship sections. REVERT all changes Instead lets try removing them entirely. Replace them with a single section ship named "scout" with a long range. Make it cheaper and faster to build, but no upgrades will ever be available. No CR version either. No need for that. REMOVE ER from hiver & Zuul. Their AI doesn't need them.~

matthewhively commented 4 years ago

[x] Morrigi Xeno tech is actually quite good at level 3. (auto disarm a lot of traps) It needs to be more expensive for that reason if no other. Try to add some new lines into the tech description so it can be emphasized what the additional effect is (and it doesn't get lost in the blob)
[x] Fix AI rebellion color The default (120,0,0) is too close to (128,0,64) (pomegranate) Lets try AI as grey? (128,128,128)

matthewhively commented 4 years ago

See #106

matthewhively commented 4 years ago

[x] Properly remove assimilation plague (gotta disable the .weapon file as well)
```
Warning: Tech 'BIO_AsPlg' not found.  Ignoring in Weapons/bio_assim.weapon.
```

matthewhively commented 4 years ago

[x] Slightly adjust up the trade values so that when Morrigi is multiplied by 30% the weird floating point numbers don't make the trade value look weird. (Gotta do some math and testing here)

Looks like 25090 and 65060 look good to me.

[x] Revert grand menace turn limits