[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="470" id="3507233"] I've updated the file with my changes. It's not perfect, but it should be a noticeable improvement. [/quote] Looks good. But why in the hell are they researching logistics now and now before without any changes?! Could it be that AIP8 likes high AIValues more when they follow up on a low AIValue tech? I'll see if this works on the Krynn as well.
[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="470" id="3507233"] I've updated the file with my changes. It's not perfect, but it should be a noticeable improvement. [/quote] Fantastic. I'll have a look. [quote who="DARCA1213" reply="471" id="3507301"] Alongside the Drath, I'm considering to work on the Korath, Drengin, and Altarians. Maybe the Iconians too. The Yor can be kept as is for the moment, because they seem to do quite well
[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="468" id="3507200"] Edit: By the way, Basic Gravitronics is still set to Industry in your tech tree, even though the comment says otherwise [/quote] Fixed. It's supposed to be industry. I was working on the Drath as well. I'm not completely happy with them so hopefully you're having more luck. The Techtree is in dropbox, maybe there's something useful in it. I'm calling it a night so g/l editing. By the way, it
To get AIP11 to research Xeno Ethics give it category Economics.
@DARCA The DLL files are compiled. If they'd been build in .NET we'd be able to edit the MSIL but they're not. @Gaunathor I;ve uploaded the Thalan techtree file to the shared folder. Did you get it?
[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="457" id="3507123"] I've been using Notepad++ for this since I started back in 2008. Switching to a different program in the middle of a project doesn't seem like a good idea to me. [/quote] As you wish. Could you set up a shared folder in dropbox though or would you like me to do it? If so I'll need your dropbox information.
Good luck :)
Had a few more ideas. First, it's probably a good idea to confine all our tweaking to the racial techtrees and leave TechTree.XML alone for now. That way we can share the racial techtrees containing all our tweaks making it much easier for others to test. To make this easy I suggest we set up a shared folder on a cloud serve. I know Gaunathor uses dropbox and so do I. I can set this up. This will allow us to share the racial techtrees, updates, etc, without having to downl
[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="451" id="3507093"] I'm not seeing how changing an Iconian tech would help the Altarians. [/quote] You'd be amazed... [quote who="Gaunathor" reply="451" id="3507093"] The only thing I've overlooked is to change Basic Gravitronics to Computing. [/quote] Aha!
[quote who="MarvinKosh" reply="450" id="3507092"] Using less than the maximum number of races in a standard test game would also allow us to see how they do when they have a bit more breathing room. [/quote] I never play a game with all the races. It crashes so, so quickly. Depending on what I'm doing I'll put a race up against one or three opponents. One thing that never varies is Tough difficulty and Normal tech progression. AIP8's research decisions a
Morning, [quote who="DARCA1213" reply="447" id="3507021"] It seems a bit much, considering that the tech itself already gives a 10% bonus. [/quote] Fair point.[quote who="MarvinKosh" reply="448" id="3507071"] Something I was thinking about in my last test game - do you think that the ability point cost for planet quality is in line with the improvement that it offers? What I mean by that, is that when I go out and colonise a bunch of PQ 6 worlds, if I
Looks good but the Drath are giving me trouble again. Also, how do you guys feel about my suggested change to the Weather Controller? (= more tiles than Biosphere Modulator at no extra costs).
Downloading now...
I've also been messing around with the Arceans and I think they're in a much better place now. I've ensured they grab their space cannon and get several levels of terraforming asap. This helps. Also, and this is just my opinion, but I think the Weather Controller should stand out a little more so I changed the tiles it gives from 3 to 5 for a few extra tiles to make up for their lack of planets. I've also given them a reduction of 75% in logistics. They're doing mu
Ive been doing a bit of fiddeling with the Xeno Ethics and AdvancedStarbaseConstruction aka Military Starbase Construction. For AIP11 races Xeno Ethics needs a different category and AI value or they won't pick it up. Pure Research works but the AI value needs a bit of tweaking. AdvancedStarbaseConstruction isn't picked up enough so I ran a test with the ID on Weapons and the Category on Starbase. AIP8 liked this, AIP11 didn't so I changed the category to
Arghh darned Drath. Well I got some results at least. Unlike the Altarians the Drath research the XM tree later. Why? Because AIP8 will only research a few things before it goes nuts with manufacturing and weapons. Forcing the Drath to research their XM line causes them to skip over a lot of tech in the beginning of the game and they'll never recover. (Things like Temples gets lost, e.g) InvisibleHand AI to 15 XenoMystisism AI to 9 Precursor Histo
Xeno Mystisism fix for Altarians. Xeno Mystisism AIVAlue to -10 (or 100000 doesn't matter) Precursor Studies Category to Economics AIValue 12. I'm getting some good results with these settings. The Drath are proving to be a little more difficult.
[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="436" id="3506937"] This evening, if all goes well. I just want to get the Korath to research Spore Weapons again. [/quote] AIValue -10 maybe? [quote who="Gaunathor" reply="436" id="3506937"] It's in, but I'm not quite sure about it yet. [/quote] Thanks!
[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="434" id="3506917"] I've been going through the tech tree again. Fixing some typos, changing some names and details (only for the Yor so far), making some techs stealable (again), making some techs tradeable again... Overall, the amount of techs I changed to tradeable and stealable is much higher than previously discussed. I apparently changed my mind regarding some of them. However, I also changed my mind regarding some techs that were on the
Ran a test with Xeno Engineering on Economy category for AIP11 races (Thalan's excluded, they don't have it). I ran between 10 and 20 tests restarting when the AI picked up Xeno Engineering. Korx. 100% Altarians. 100%. Once they got half way through their weapon tree before picking it up but they DID pick it up. Arceans. 100% Torians. 100% This works. It's probably a good idea to change Xeno Industrial Theory to Economics for AIP11 as well. N
@Gaunathor. Please reconsider your stance on stealing unique tech. We're not giving these techs away and tech stealing is incredibly rare as it is and all the "normal" tech is available for theft as well to make it even less likely you're going to steal a unique tech. The fact that these techs make a race unique is what makes them so darn interesting for theft because it's going to feel AWESOME when it happens. It's like making money of a lottery ticket. It'
[quote who="DARCA1213" reply="429" id="3506861"] I think a fixed the torian! I put ssthem on the altarian behavior and they are in line with everyone! I'm having a great game. In fact okkojgt [/quote] DARCA I'm a bit puzzled by what you mean. The Torians and Altarians are both on AI Personality 11. Did you change the torian dialogue tag to: Altarian ? If so. That won't fly as it will switch the To
Just ran a test with Xeno Economics as Economics for AIP11 races. It seems to help when they innitially skip over it in favor of weapons. As to Xeno Myst and Precursor history. Tricky one. Perhaps we can force the AI to research them both then wait with Divergent Evolution and Dark Energy research by lowering their AIValues. I'll think about it. G'night.
Okey so we have a list of stealable techs. The Thalan probably did okey on AIP8 that not why I moved them, it's for a bit more variety in AI's you face. Xeno Engineering is currently set to Manufacturing, perhaps Economics would be a better choice since AIP11 loves that category. I'll run some tests. As to Xeno Mystesism. Yeah that's a bit unfortunate. I've seen them grab it and the follow up tech but sometimes they get pulled into their tree and leave it b
List of tech that could be stealable: Interstellar Expansion. aka Enhanced Adaptation. Torians, Iconians have it too). This tech has no baring on story and it's description was written for multiple races. Robust Hulls* Dark Influence. There's nothing there that states what the Korath do exactly so it could be stolen. XenoIntimidation. Iffy... but possible. I don't see Altarians doing this then again they are rather self righteous.
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