Masters Mod v1.7 ( May the Masters be with You )

[wilhil]

I tried to load the mod, but it keeps saying music files missing and then when I click Close, I only have the credits and quit game button.

what can I do :S ?

[PsychoTechFreak]

A great mod it is.

Urendi Maleldil said:
The AI is based on AI from the TDM Modpack.

I'd like to see all of the TDM races "mastered". What has to be done to accomplish this? Is it just AI general that has to be tweaked for the races? NM.

Some of the costs seem to be too high. Psy masters for example, I would always prefer the traditional Psycho trait if there are 1500 pts. to spend. Psy masters don't have any new components as far as I can see; This is more a 500 pt. trait I think. Not yet sure about the rest, but there should be a balance between the racial trait that reflects advantages in components/facilities and others. Otherwise it would not be a chosen trait.

[Urendi Maleldil]

Coming Soon:

Masters Mod v1.5: Where No Master Has Gone Before

It contains about a million bug fixes and enhancements, a few new races, plus one new racial trait. I'll leave it to you guys to try and figure out what it is.

Just a few minor tweaks left. I'll try and upload it tomorrow.

[Urendi Maleldil]

Download: Masters Mod v1.5: Where No Master Has Gone Before

Numerous additions and bugfixes. The biggest additions are the new Trek Masters trait and the Federation, Borg, Klingon and Romulan races by Atrocities. See the Masters Mod readme for the complete changes.

Only the Federation and Borg are optimized to use the Trek Masters trait right now (Testing AI takes a looooong time), but I plan to modify the Klingon and Romulan AI's in the next release.

Trek Masters
Your race has mastered the use of technology found in the Star Trek universe. In addition to normal SE4 techs, your race will be able to use powerful weapons like Phasers, Disruptors, and Photon Torpedos to help you crush your enemies, as well as efficient propulsion systems like Warp and Transwarp Drive, and Leaky Shields.

* Warp Engine
* Laser Cannon
* Phaser
* Disruptor Cannon
* Warp Core
* Photon Torpedo
* Quantum Torpedo
* Trek Shield Generator (leaky)
* Multiphasic Shields (leaky)

[Ed Kolis]

Trek Masters? Man, this mod is quickly going downhill...
(wait a second, leaky shields are an *advantage*? I guess when mixed with solid shields they are, since they're basically crystalline armor with shield generation to back them up, but still... )

[Suicide Junkie]

Leaky shields are completely useless until all solid shields have been depleted.

Mixing the two is inefficient, not beneficial.

[Urendi Maleldil]

I re-uploaded the file. Everything's cool.

[Wolfman77]

I checked last night a few things. I got the image to work by saving as a tiff then sving back to a bmp so it must just be a funny bmp coding. The multiplex problem was with the Sergetti. I also noticed in the facilities text that the gaia facilities atmosphere chage description says 20,19,and 18 turns but the value is at 20,15,and 10. I also noticed the Core mount that fits 10mT ships and bases has the same supply usage as the massive mount, seems really low to me.

[Urendi Maleldil]

Hey, thanks for the info. I've added the corrections to the next version.

Other than releasing a copy of the Image Mod alongside the Masters Mod, I'm not sure what I could do about the wacky images, since it's a problem just with the Image Mod. That would increase the file size substantially. Not something I want to happen. I'm sure I'll think of something.

Suggestions?

[Urendi Maleldil]

In the next version I've updated the Trek Masters leaky shields so they generate fewer shield points than normal shields, but offer more shield generation from damage.

As Suicide Junkie suggested, I modified the AI by using the SGFD ability to call for the shields instead of the normal Shields entry, which would just use the components with the greatest number of shield points. It wasn't nearly as painful a conversion as I thought it would be.