Thanks for the info Whiskey    I didnt know about the culture thing, but maybe i can figure something out, haha, that or ask on the forums, there are a ton of people here that can do almost anything. 

Take care and thanks again,

Keep Modding!!!!

-Teal

trade is not impossible, due to the starbase trade ports, but I think that research will be the killer

harpo

   hmmmm... an idea you just gave me when i read your reply was if research was not "tied" to the planet.  But then planets are the only points "at present" haha, had to throw that in there, that generate the crystal, metal and credits to buy the research and ships.

The pirates have stealresources, but it steals credits, the crystal and metal still have to come from somewhere.

Unless you know, if asteroids were in open space, well... that wont work... Sins is based on grav well to grav well, its where everything gets done, even the battles, even if some spills into open space out beyond the wells, it is still centered in the wells.

Hmmm.... Well...if it "wasn't" tied to a planet, where would it be tied to?  Actually there is no other place to put it.

But what might "make" it a tad different, would be if the number and kinds of asteroids and the size of the population were more randomly generated. If i played Tec on a terran planet one game and got 2 crystal asteroids, no metal asteroids and maybe half the population we normally get and have to struggle like heck to even stay alive. And in another game had twice of everything, except maybe research would be higher, and i would have to struggle again, not because i couldnt pump out quick and fast and mean ships, haha, but because i could barely keep up with research to keep from being out researched and therefor losing to the ai.

Just some ideas of course, probably far from modibility, maybe even far from an affordable expansion, but still nice to think about. 

Keep Modding!!!!

-Teal

Teal- in the Planet[planetname].entity files, it specifies the asteroid count, and the refinery income for the asteroids.

Also, it is a pretty simple matter to re-gear a races economic design. Just time consuming. All that is need is changing the prices to be set up much like they are now, but with higher costs of metal/crystal. Then, by re-rigging the research (I'm a little uknown to that part, right now anyway, hehehe), you can re-gear an economic design.

I'll include a spoiler about a mod I am working on- the new race(s) that I am including will not use the credit-dependant economies of the vanilla races. Instead they will be heavily dependent on large metal and crystal reserves. However, they won't have the extractor improvement researches, and instead will use alternative methods (like mining a gas giant/gas supergiant planet for Helium-3) to acquire their excess resources.

  Harpo, sounds interesting. 

-Teal

I have found from the starbase files that we can only have ONE of either trade or refinery ships associated with a starbase, which also forces an issue of creating a second starbase type for the refinery sb idea and also modifying the starbase builder to ber able to build two different starbases and editing all of the planet entities to increase the numbers of starbases

harpo

teal,

I had created a personal mega starbase mod with  6 upgrades each of weapons, toughness and hangars giving 200+dmg/sec 32000+hull armour 34 shields 25000 and 36 sc EACH starbase and limited the starbases to only 24 upgrades for tec 26 each for vasari and advent and each starbase was not just a speedbump but a MAJOR barrier to invasion and I also had to increas the fleet supply so that each side could have a couple of invasion fleets that COULD destroy a fully upgraded sb while having a hajority of ships survive.

harpo