Space Food Empires!

[Captain Kwok]

A repost from the SFEmod forum at Spaceempires.net:

I'm looking for some feedback regarding my plans for mines in Space Food Empires.

I was going make only one size of mine (5kT) in conjuction with a variety of warheads that take up all 5kT.

Here are the damage types of warheads available to all races:

Normal
Skips Armor
Only Engines
Only Weapons
Only Shield Generators

For increasing mine technology I was going to give the mines increasing cloak levels with the final level being undetectable, rather than increasing their size.

In addition, further levels of mine sweeping are broken off into a separate tech area after the initial tech area is researched.

What do you think?

[Suicide Junkie]

No it can't. Unlimited range means the seeker will fire from ranges up to 20, and will track the target forever. It does not mean that the missile can be fired from any range. Unless you mean that these weapons are really drones...

Actually if those missiles are mounted, they can be fired in tactical from any range.

[Captain Kwok]

Suicide Junkie said:
Actually if those missiles are mounted, they can be fired in tactical from any range.

As in I create a mount that just extends the range by a value of x?

[Captain Kwok]

A repost from SE.net Space Food Empires forums:

What would you prefer?

Currently I have each major race having their own colonization area restricted by their racial trait - so that means no colony tech trading at all. The downside is that all colony module types cost the same for a race.

Or I could use a similar system to Adamant or Ekolis's colony tech mod, where each native type (rock, ice, gas) has their own colony techs - which prevents colony tech trading between say, a rock and an ice race, but not between rock races. This way allows for higher cost modules that aren't native to that race, such as more expensive ice and gas modules for a rock race.

Also, should I restrict colony modules to colony ships by mounts a la Adamant?

[Atrocities]

Go with the unique and rare way. If you can get it to work and work well, who knows, you might make it better.

[Atrocities]

Captain Kwok said:
A repost from the SFEmod forum at Spaceempires.net:

I'm looking for some feedback regarding my plans for mines in Space Food Empires.

I was going make only one size of mine (5kT) in conjuction with a variety of warheads that take up all 5kT.

Here are the damage types of warheads available to all races:

Normal
Skips Armor
Only Engines
Only Weapons
Only Shield Generators

For increasing mine technology I was going to give the mines increasing cloak levels with the final level being undetectable, rather than increasing their size.

In addition, further levels of mine sweeping are broken off into a separate tech area after the initial tech area is researched.

What do you think?

I think these are all good ideas.

[Ed Kolis]

Why would each race having its own colony tech require all of a race's colony modules to cost the same? You could have Banana Ice Colonization, Banana Rock Colonization, and Banana Gas Colonization all as separate techs/components, and define their research/construction costs independently for each composition/race combination. It might take more work, but it might just be worth it, if meat can colonize ice planets just fine (cold cuts anyone? ) but oranges can't without LOTS of research (they freeze! )

BTW, I had a weird dream about Space Food Empires Last night ... what basically happened was I was walking around my house when I was accosted by these tiny Pikmin-like things with various forms of food growing out of their heads... they all started attacking me and I had to fend them off; I realized that Space Food Empires must have been released and these were the ground troops from the game... at first I just fought them all off and that caused them to get mad, but eventually I realized I could try to be friendly to some of them and only fight the really hostile ones... it also involved something with colors and each color had a different type of animal associated with it, and the brown empire (which apparently I was) had this really friendly but horribly combat-inept labrador retriever... I think I was allied with the black empire but their wolf always seemed menacing... oh yeah, and after all the enemies were defeated I got to eat the food growing out of their heads; the blue Pikmin-things were my Favorites to defeat because they were the candy empire!

edit: YEAH kwok, why DON'T you have any junk food in your mod? or are they the space monsters?

[Captain Kwok]

Ed:

What you describe is how I had it setup originally - except I thought I might be eliminating options for players who wanted to play a certain race but not be restricted to the planet type attached to that race. [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Cold.gif[/img]

I've tried to avoid any "processed" foods from the mod, with the exception of the Meat Empire, that's why I don't have junk food and things of that sort as races.

[Renegade 13]

Captain Kwok said:

I've tried to avoid any "processed" foods from the mod, with the exception of the Meat Empire, that's why I don't have junk food and things of that sort as races.

Hey, meat isn't processed! At least, not if you buy it direct from the source! Now, the stuff you buy in the stores...well that can be called processed, but so can oranges that are sprayed with pesticides, and vegetables that are grown with fertilizers. So I guess all of your races are "processed foods" to a certain extent!

[Captain Kwok]

What I meant by meat is processed that it comes from a cow etc. first.