Coreworlds and Outposts Mod

[shinigami]

From the Readme:

Coreworlds and Outposts v0.1


Your homeworld is a shining beacon of your race's cultural and technological advancement. Too bad that within the next century it will be barren of all resources. Now your race must learn to reach out to the stars in order to survive.

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Concepts used in this mod

Homeworlds are special and can not be duplicated.
QNP using scale mounts for engines.
Scale mounts for weapons.
Slower expansion than in the stock game.
Spaceports and Resupply Depots are expensive and take a long time to build.
Mines are build on drone hulls.
Satellites are built on fighter hulls.
There are no fighters in this model of the universe.
Space combat is slow, weapons take time to recharge.
Quantum Reactor ability removed making suplies more important.
Cultures have been changed; each culture gives your race 1000 free rps. (this still needs work)
Many more smaller changes that I can not bring to mind.

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There is no AI support yet and probably will not be much in the future, I do not believe that the AI can handle the mount system very well so it would never be much of an opponent anyway.



This is in dire need of playtesting. I believe that there are still some balance issues. I made this mainly for human vs human play so you will get AI errors when you load it.

Any comments, crits, and/or questions are welcomed!

[Ed Kolis]

Sounds interesting... I might join a PBW game if you start one

[narf poit chez BOOM]

One of your first posts is a mod?...

...Yep, you'll fit right in.

Welcome to the forum. Cheese?

[shinigami]

Sounds interesting... I might join a PBW game if you start one

If a few more people express an interest in the mod then I will gladly do so.

One of your first posts is a mod?...

...Yep, you'll fit right in.

Welcome to the forum. Cheese?

Thank you for the welcome! I have been reading these forums for awhile but never registered until recently.

This mod started out as an idea I had to address the issue of smaller ships not being useful later in the game. As it evolved I began to add other ideas that I liked. When I decided that it was ready for other players to look at I went ahead and released it. I just never expected that to be a frightening experience, "Will they like it? Will they hate it?" Fright is probably too strong a word but it is an odd feeling putting something of yourself out there for the world to see.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I gotta warn you, from the mod description you'll be competing with the proportions mod...
http://www.spaceempires.net/home/viewlink-40.html

[shinigami]

I prefer to think that the different mods do not "compete" with each other. Proportions is a well-polished and great mod and I would hope that because I chose a similar (but not same) idea for part of my mod no one thinks I am knocking it, that is not my intent at all.

I think you could take 10 modders and give them all the same task or problem and you would get 10 different approaches toward resolving that task or problem. Different is not better or worse (generally speaking), just different. And if nothing else, maybe someone will look at my mod and it will give them an idea for one of their own!