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I actually thought about that one. There's a problem, though. Those hypothetical thrusters would need to be really powerful for their size or the tiny ships in the pre warp area would have no room for anything but the drive. If I make them powerful enough there'd be no reason to develop other thrusters at all, since those would be way weaker. I guess the game also would be pretty much unplayable if ships zoom around inside systems like bats out of hell. /quote]

I'm not sure how Cruise, Sprint, and Acceleration is figured out in the Movement box of the ship design screen, but perhaps an interstellar newtonian drive engine could be designed with a real high cruise speed but no sprint speed and it takes a very long time to accelerate (like the distance of a solar system) to achieve full cruise speed. That would take care of the desire to use these as run of the mill engines to zip around the the system. Might be a good alternative for freighters that don't necessarily need to worry about combat speeds, plus they are more efficient and consume less fuel. Kind of like military grade engines versus commercial engines in Aurora and Starfire.

I dunno I just really enjoy the puddling around pre warp age of discovery era of the game and would like to prolong it but still be able to reach out of the system even if it takes several years to get to the nearest star. Perhaps move the hyper drive ruin to one of the stellar neighbors, some races luck out and find it right away, others have to stumble about as wolflings taking decades to reach the ability of hyper drives, or maybe even the last engine in this tree would open up the hyper drive tech.

Thanks again for all of your work to enhance this great game.

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ORIGINAL: Sirian
The corresponding entry in the components.txt files has 7 specific values for weapons, none of which relate to its efficiency against shields / armor.

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ORIGINAL: Unforeseen

:D

Btw out of curiosity how big is the research.txt file so far? (File size)

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ORIGINAL: lurchi
I sure hope Erik and Elliot will do something about this or there will be a very big problem very soon. [sm=Christo_pull_hair.gif]

[&o][&o][&o] Please answer my PM... [&o][&o][&o]

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ORIGINAL: Kizucha

Maybe we should post on every thread that he go and help lurchi.[:D]

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ORIGINAL: Kizucha

By the way, is the mod in the way of hyper drives done? It's one of my main "problem's" with the game, if lurchi already changed a bit of the hyper drives i would play with the mod, without research mods the game is something boring for me now.[:(]

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ORIGINAL: Shark7

Hmm, this mod is starting to get good.

I do so love a big tech tree, with really expensive research times.

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ORIGINAL: Shark7

But I wonder, will this be self contained, or designed in such a fashion that it could perchance be dropped into a players preferred mod? And I don't mean to be redistributed, just that players own use. Being that I like the ideas in this research mod, and the new artwork I see here is quality, but I do have a favorite mod with 33 races currently, and would like to adapt it into that (I really wanted to mod my tech tree, but the task was just a bit too daunting for me).

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ORIGINAL: Kizucha

Edit: Oh can it be that it's the new update for distant worlds? I updated it and i get an error if i change to the mod, that DW dont work anymore.[:)]

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ORIGINAL: Icemania

Also keep in mind, when we apply the AI Improvement Mod to this, each race will focus on specific paths. In fact lurchi, if you look at the Summary table in the "AI Improvement Mod.xls", something similar to that would help get application of the AI Improvement Mod started e.g. what Weapon / Combo (only if merited) should each race focus on. This way I can understand clearly what your design goals are and align. No need for it yet ... please get this to a mature stage first.