Organic & Crystal vehicle differences?

Slick · #1 October 25th, 2006, 02:43 AM

What's the short answer on the differences between Normal, Organic and Crystal vehicles?

pujal · #2 October 25th, 2006, 02:48 AM

No idea about crystal, but organic ships use more organic resources and less minerals and their dreadnoughts are much larger than normal ships.

Yimboli · #3 October 25th, 2006, 05:14 PM

Also no idea about crystal, but to elaborate on organic ships, basically just swap the mineral + organic cost. That's for lower hulls at least, cuz I only have the demo.

Fyron · #4 October 25th, 2006, 05:21 PM

Crystalline hulls swap minerals for radioactives. There were plans to do a lot more than just have organic/crystalline hulls, but it was scaled back for various reasons.

Ragnarok-X · #5 October 25th, 2006, 05:43 PM

Is there no special abilty for crystalline and organic hulls ?!

Dizzy · #6 October 25th, 2006, 05:45 PM

Crystalline hulls have some beam weapon save modifiers among a few select other things including greater maintenance discounts.

Fyron · #7 October 25th, 2006, 06:17 PM

You may be thinking of the Balance Mod, where Kwok did indeed add some abilities to the hulls. In stock, the organic and crystalline hulls are the same as normal hulls. The sizes of the hulls are identical as well, in stock. Organic DN is the same exact size as normal DN, as is Crystalline DN. The only difference is in hull costs.

Dizzy · #8 October 25th, 2006, 06:25 PM

Ahhh, my bad, fryon caught me! I use kwoks balance mod. Oopsie! Just trying to help. Didnt stop to think I had modded data files!

Spoo · #9 October 25th, 2006, 09:00 PM

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Imperator Fyron said:
You may be thinking of the Balance Mod, where Kwok did indeed add some abilities to the hulls. In stock, the organic and crystalline hulls are the same as normal hulls. The sizes of the hulls are identical as well, in stock. Organic DN is the same exact size as normal DN, as is Crystalline DN. The only difference is in hull costs.

Not quite.

Regular dreadnoughts:

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Tonnage Space Formula := 1250 + (([%Level%] - 1) * 50)

Organic/Crystalline dreadnaouhgts

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Tonnage Space Formula := 1250 + (([%Level%] - 1) * 100)

Arkcon · #10 October 25th, 2006, 07:57 PM

Back in the last days of SE4, I had plans for a mod -- ridiculously grandiose plans given my modding skill level -- for temporal hulls. I figured they'd use time travel ability to bring in ships from the future, so they'd have hull sizes and components a couple of tech levels higher than they'd researched. So I planned on making them very cheap, quick to build, and real expensive to maintain. I was trying to model "time warping" them in, using them quickly, and then "time warping" (as in scrapping them) back out again.

Maybe SE5 will let me do that easier.