OT: Fiction for my Mod:

[Kana]

Anything new?

I want hear more about this great sounding guy Sky Marshal Kana...

[President_Elect_Shang]

Not right now, I hit a stopping point when the default strategies fell apart. Thanks to SJ�s guidance I found the problem and wound up re-writing the entire Strategies.txt file. I just finished last night and now I am faced with a new problem. Should I continue and rebuild each empire�s strategies one by one or should I recreate the empires so the defaults become the new ones I wrote? I will decide later tonight; and as I�m sure you must have figured out by the above comment. The mod is not yet in a condition that I can have others help me test.

[President_Elect_Shang]

Sorry; I�m going to have to let this story go and start all over at a future time. Now I am completely rewriting the crew experience levels. At this point I don�t see much of the stock files being left. I think this is going to be a total conversion when I am done. That is much more work than I planned but the new modding freedom Aaron has built in is allowing me to recreate the universe on levels I couldn�t have dreamed of with SE4. I do promise to bring Sky Marshall Kana back.

[Kana]

Arent' most good mods, a total conversion anyway...

[President_Elect_Shang]

That is a positive way to look at it; however, sitting here watching my �to do� list grow as fast as I work can be a little� intimidating.

[Suicide Junkie]

Re: Experiencetypes.txt

I suggest some of the following:
- Negative experience per turn
- Generous experience gains.
- A light exponential increase in required points per level (Say, double cost every 2 or 4 levels) to ensure that there is lots of variety among the common ships
- Cool abilities on the high end ships; repair, supply/ordnance generation, bonus damage, extra movement points, sensor power, maintenance reduction, unit launch rate, etc.