May the odds be ever in your favor!

It’s really good to see this game start its final approach!

<r> The inset sector map at the bottom right - one of the buttons across the top will illuminate all systems with a research bonus (at work right now so I don't recall which). Clicking on the star system will then show you the size of the bonus and for which research area in the system summary ...

Icemania - I agree, especially now that we can design ships with specific tactical dispositions. That's exactly what I'm hoping to explore in my mod.

I'd be happy to apply the same analysis to Lurchi's mod and compare results.

Blackstork - I would be really interested in sharing resources and collaborating. Reading into the Beyond thread I'll freely admit I never realized how deep the character and race creation could be in creating unique expereinces. Very cool! I'm happy to help - I'll PM you with my email.

Here's an introduction to my mod work:

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3722655

<r> Unity Mod Introduction:<br/>
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Unity is intended to be a total conversion (TC) of DW:U with a unique research tree and unique races based on "historical" human nations that colonize the stars immediately surrounding earth before a cosmic accident wipes out our homeworld and throws those ...

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While historians and modern fiction writers prefer to focus on the later Bug and Machine Wars, no treatment of the rise of humanity to the galactic stage would be complete without a discussion of the Early Empire's fall ...

<t> How did you account for special abilities (bypassing shields, armour bonuses/penalties etc)? <br/>
>I set up a dummy target with shields, armor, and a internal components and then calculated the number of shots to kill the dummy for each weapon including damage fall-off from range, rate of fire ...

<t> Thanks rxnnxs! I'll admit I did this mostly for myself as I dug in to what it would take to mod DW. I'll have some posts later this week about using all this as a tool to quickly design weapon systems for a total conversion. Hopefully people will see the advantages of an analytical approach with ...

<r> And at Range 600:<br/>
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<r> Here's the same graph at Range 400:<br/>
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<r> You can clearly see why people prefer certain weapon systems by the end game.<br/>
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Here you can see the full nature of the development of all the weapon systems at range 99 (no distance penalty). X-Axis is CE, Y-Axis is DE, and as a convention I've reversed the scales - the upper right ...

<r> So I've played DW since the first edition, but I haven't really delved into modding until this release (mostly because babies and toddlers just suck up every minute of the day when I'm not at work… but it's getting better...)<br/>
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I've read with great interest the various discussions of ...

<t> To be specific- researching the second tier of colony research (ocean and desert?) both unlock the ability to build a planetary facility called 'Terraforming Facility'. Build this on a planet damaged by bombardment or planetary disasters and it will greatly speed up the restoration of the planet ...

This has been the best release by far. And the Extended AI mod makes it a lot of fun and actually challenging on Hard

Another thought- what if you give point defense from orbital stations and local ships a couple free shots (similar to ground based space defenses)? This might address some of the issue without extensive modification.

I have to say - I have a preference for well-written text AARs.

Really enjoyed this!

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... I wish there were the ability--such as fleet formation (as mentioned above) that would instruct my fleet for warp in with my "tanks" right on top of the target and my ranged ships ...

So how do you change the lead ship in a fleet?