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ORIGINAL: Igard

OK, I'm with you now. I've never been able to turn a race with -50 balance to liking me, probably because I always play on restless or chaotic and I'm never a shining beacon of goodness when I play.

So let's put it all together to make sure we're agreed before I add anything to the list.

Let's say we are making a mod with 4 races, 1,2,3&4. 1&2 are humanoid, 2&3 are insectoid.

The bias.txt file located in the theme folder would look like this :-

____1____2____3____4
1___0____50__-50__-50
2___50___0___-50__-50
3__-50__-50___0____50
4__-50__-50___50___0

I used '_' because spaces don't show up.

And the 'casusbelli.txt'(is this a good name for it?) would look something like this :-

____1____2____3____4
1___0____1____2____2
2___1____0____2____2
3___2____2____0____1
4___2____2____1____0

How many penalties/bonuses would we see?

0 = Neutral, no change to relations. Races can interact normally
1 = Love, + 100. Races are highly likely to form a MDP.
2 = Hate, - 100. Races are unable to trade with one another/Trade sanctions in constant effect. Highly likely to war. Likely to bombard rather than invade.

What do you think? I like this idea, but I want it to be clear what we're asking for. Any more that could be added?

ORIGINAL: DTFS

i wish they'd release the components for editing even if its only at the basic level like the races.txt

ORIGINAL: Igard

That's a good idea.[:)]

Section 19. Colony name txt file. Added to the list.

ORIGINAL: Igard

3. Modable technology. Edit the names, images and properties of each tech.

3b. Ability to add/remove tech. Define their position in the tech tree. This includes new weapon types, shields, everything.

ORIGINAL: Sark

ORIGINAL: Igard

3. Modable technology. Edit the names, images and properties of each tech.

3b. Ability to add/remove tech. Define their position in the tech tree. This includes new weapon types, shields, everything.

Just to flesh this out a bit more... I would like to see an option to flag a tech as untradable. I feel that tech trading advances the research much more quickly than I would like and it would be nice to be able to turn it off.

It would also be nice to flag a tech as only available to a certain race so then you could develop race specific tech trees as well.

ORIGINAL: Shark7

ORIGINAL: Sark

ORIGINAL: Igard

3. Modable technology. Edit the names, images and properties of each tech.

3b. Ability to add/remove tech. Define their position in the tech tree. This includes new weapon types, shields, everything.

Just to flesh this out a bit more... I would like to see an option to flag a tech as untradable. I feel that tech trading advances the research much more quickly than I would like and it would be nice to be able to turn it off.

It would also be nice to flag a tech as only available to a certain race so then you could develop race specific tech trees as well.

Going a bit further you could have species specific techs that can only be obtained through spy missions. They can not be researched or obtained via trade or ruin events, the tech is specific to one race/species, and it is not necessarily a starting tech.

Just an example:

The humans being forced to find new power sources due to their early reliance on fossil fuels that eventually dissapeared have developed a compact, efficient reactor core to power even their smallest vehicles. This has led to a breakthrough in reactor technology that gives ships the same reactor power as standard reactors in half the space (the tech would be 'Reactor Miniturization and reduces reactor space by 50%). This technology is heavily guarded by the humans and all human reactors are set to detonate on destruction or unauthorized access of the ship to protect it.

The Sluken want this tech. Several attempts to capture an intact ship with the technology have failed as the fail safe triggered a self destruction of the ships. Sluken high command has devised a plan to kidnap the Human lead scientist and 'persuade' him to divulge the technology.

IN this example, the Sluken would have at best a 2-3% chance of success...more likely 1%. But you get the idea...a special tech that is guarded and never shared.

ORIGINAL: Shark7
would be nice to have a tech table that we could assign to each individual race so that each race has its own tech tree. [;)]

ORIGINAL: Shark7
Going a bit further you could have species specific techs that can only be obtained through spy missions. They can not be researched or obtained via trade or ruin events, the tech is specific to one race/species, and it is not necessarily a starting tech.

ORIGINAL: Igard

ORIGINAL: Shark7
would be nice to have a tech table that we could assign to each individual race so that each race has its own tech tree. [;)]

Appended to section 3d. It's basically what Sark said, but this is a good method for implementing it.[;)]

ORIGINAL: Shark7
Going a bit further you could have species specific techs that can only be obtained through spy missions. They can not be researched or obtained via trade or ruin events, the tech is specific to one race/species, and it is not necessarily a starting tech.

Just to clarify. This tech would be untradable and very hard to steal? Apart from that, it's no different from any other tech. It could appear anywhere in the tech tree.

In your example you mention miniturization tech. I'm not sure if you are just using this as an expample or if you want racial bonuses for specific tech stats. I don't think that will work with Distant Worlds. We should be able to create our own techs and then assign them to the races we want. So if we want the humans to have 50% smaller reactors, we would create several reactors that are 50% smaller than everyone else's.