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ORIGINAL: DinoSaurus

Well, but maybe you could add a final and very expensive research project with high-damage beam weapons or so?

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ORIGINAL: NephilimNexus

Suggestion for improving the pre-warp stage:

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ORIGINAL: NephilimNexus

Unrelated: Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't some of those icon graphics from EvE Online?

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ORIGINAL: Kizucha

Sad lurchi. I remember that from an other place... i have done some modding for rimworld and in the time i work on the mod i have not played the game at all. I name it the "modding"-disease.

By the way, i have not played with the ai improvement mod, does it make the ai smarter in someway's or only change the design-use?

Sadly i like to play DW too but i cant play it vanilla because of the lak of good research mods. Happyly after lurchis mod is done i can play the game to the death again.

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ORIGINAL: Joshwoo69
I had a modding disease after making my mod: flagpole. Then after the many releases, I decided to pass to mrofa for maintaing. On turn integrating with his mod. And I stopped playing rimworld.

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ORIGINAL: Kizucha

Lurchis mastermind-plan, find a way to kill DW without playing: success.

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ORIGINAL: lurchi
I sure tested though, the AI does research and use the new tech. I have Icemania for final balancing, so you can look forward to a Research Reloaded / Ai Improvement combo. I'm very sure this will be very challenging.

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ORIGINAL: Blackstork
The only fast, easy and soft way to integrate 3 projects into one is to apply some automation and excel lists tied to racial focuses/etc based on your excel AI mod file (which is also base for Beyond one)
Once it will be actual and RR will be released and tested, and we 3 have time for it we could build it and make it very modular so any mod update, and any game update will be easy to apply to combined mod.
Building game research queues for 50+ races in 1000 tech tree manually is so 1990, there must be some automation to ease file data generation :P
Btw you can copy paste research.txt as it is and it will be not hard task to extract tech data from it into excel automation.

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ORIGINAL: Hawkeye_BF

My english is really not the best but hope its enough to communicate withe you.
I would really like to help balance testing, at moment I have alot of Time ;)

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ORIGINAL: Icemania

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ORIGINAL: Blackstork
The only fast, easy and soft way to integrate 3 projects into one is to apply some automation and excel lists tied to racial focuses/etc based on your excel AI mod file (which is also base for Beyond one)
Once it will be actual and RR will be released and tested, and we 3 have time for it we could build it and make it very modular so any mod update, and any game update will be easy to apply to combined mod.
Building game research queues for 50+ races in 1000 tech tree manually is so 1990, there must be some automation to ease file data generation :P
Btw you can copy paste research.txt as it is and it will be not hard task to extract tech data from it into excel automation.

No. It's not going to be fast because it's not the Excel and Race files that took the time, it was thinking about what the orders should be and why.

If you have a look in the Excel file more closely you will find:
(a) Weapons Research Order Templates for each weapon type (e.g. if you go to Tarapin you will see Human Copy). They were copied and pasted across races using the same weapons.
(b) Energy Research Order Templates (e.g. refer to the 4 Templates in the Energy Templates tab). They were copied and pasted across races using the same energy strategies.
(c) HighTech Research Order Templates, unfortunately quite a few specials here due to Wonders and Colonisation, only about half copy and paste.

Then there were special orders for racial technologies.

What took the time was developing the Templates and testing them. The copy and paste part, which could be automated, can be done in minutes anyway by referencing the Summary sheet both in the Excel file and the Race file. What I could do is automate the use of the Templates within the Excel file. Change the Template and the relevant races change in the Excel file as well. But there is no point doing this until we've tested and played with the new tech tree as the Templates will change completely.

Automating changes between an Excel file to a Race file is beyond me without investing a lot of time figuring out how to do it. But again there is a lot of copy and paste, then deal with the specials, so it won't take long.

If we automated a link between research.txt and the Excel file, I wouldn't use it, because we are going to have to *think* about how to change the orders before changing anything anyway.

With respect to research.txt I don't want to touch the Research Orders until lurch's tech tree is completed and fully tested, so the rework on the research orders should be limited, if using a mature tree.

As I keep saying, I do not have the time to do anything for a while. Nor do I think it is the right time anyway. Right from the start I've said that I will not begin AI Improvement until you and lurchi have integrated.

In short, I know you are enthusiastic, and I don't want to dampen that, but please back off. Leave the AI Improvement Mod Excel file and the changes needed to me please.

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ORIGINAL: Shark7

The 300 component thing is a new feature, and I'm afraid probably one that most testers don't have the patience to go through with. After all, I only added a couple of weapons, a few wonders, and a revamped tech tree for colony tech using the default research as a base and it took me forever to do (after several revisions due to errors).

Sounds like you're the man when it comes to big research trees. All I can advise is try to catch the error logs, a save-game if possible, and keep in touch with Eric and Elliot until it gets worked out.

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ORIGINAL: DinoSaurus

Lurchi, I have two ideas, which maybe could be interesting:

(1) Do you have implemented something like an ANTI-TRAKTOR-BEAM? This could helb to fix a special ship and push it away from it's target, depending on the ships mass... I am thinking of star destroyers... or maybe battleships at scientific stations - Would possibly fit to countermeasures

(2) Another interesting equipment would be some kind of TECH-SCANNER: If you first time met a ship with a unknown tech (and your exploration-ship has a TECH-SCANNER) you get a little (or more, depending on the scanner-level) scientific bonus according to the tech of the foreign ship. This also would be another good idea for exploration ships: For every planet discovered (maybe a new "intensive excovering" if possible, only for colonizable planets, gas giants and barren planets) you get a little bonus on e.g. desert colonization or s.th. witch fits - important: the scientific bonus should not be too big. I think this also would extend the exploration of the universe...

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ORIGINAL: Icemania

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ORIGINAL: Hawkeye_BF

My english is really not the best but hope its enough to communicate withe you.
I would really like to help balance testing, at moment I have alot of Time ;)

Cool! Pick an area that interests you and give it a focus once lurchi provides a complete tree for the part that you are interested. All we need to do is avoid people working on the same area of balance testing.

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ORIGINAL: Icemania

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ORIGINAL: Hawkeye_BF

My english is really not the best but hope its enough to communicate withe you.
I would really like to help balance testing, at moment I have alot of Time ;)

Cool! Pick an area that interests you and give it a focus once lurchi provides a complete tree for the part that you are interested. All we need to do is avoid people working on the same area of balance testing.