CCMod 9.0. released

rnl · Moderator Joined: Jun 02, 2008

Crimson Concept Mod 9.0 - download here
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Objective
* Designed to focus on new, revised, and interest concepts. The following are the currently concepts:

Traits
* Organic
- Add Regeneration to all organic comps, add a comp, and added a facility
* Organic Host
- Added new hive facility,Underground Hive, and change some the hive comp values/scopes
* Religious
- Add bonus for Religious empires to exp bonus and increase chance of a positive event based on Religious tech and pop amount.
* Temporal
- Added a few new Comps

Active Concepts
* Patent System
- Make some changes the way RP are a won.
* Corporation/Private Research funding
- Creates the Corporation/Private research section base on the number and type of facilties build and adds RP to techs randomly.
* External Comps
- Change the way it works and added some new comps
* FTL
- FTL Attack movement, Long range system attack where ship rams another ship in FTL.
* Space infrastructure
- The ability to build infrastructure in anywhere space now works with help of a script event.
* VW Technology
- Technology that skips most shield types and causes 3 - 5 times the amount of damage to armor and internal components
* Dimensional Manipulation
- Add mount versions of the tech for comp, new comp/facility

Passive Concepts
* Reduce planet's cond due to space battles
- Planet's involved on battle and receive damage, has it's planet cond. reduced.
* Plague Enhance
- Reduce or remove the chance of plague happening for empires based on traits/facilities.
- New Event makes sure ship/base with med lab cure planets they were suppose to cure before.

New Comps/Facilities/Units/Tech
* Comp
- Cloaking Device AI > Working cloaking device for AI
- Null-Space Shield Generator
- High-Energy Kamikaze Warhead > Allow for fighters to be useful later in game
- Pin-point barrier system
- Heavy Neutron Armor
- Advance Drone Computer Core > only drone with this can use direct fire weapons
* Facilities
- Medical Clinic > Cure plagues on this Planet

MODs Integrated
* BM 1.19i.beta data and BM 1.19h script
* Base AI from Fishsteak's Enhanced BM Race AI

Changes
* Switch to BM 1.20 tech tree, but not all the new comp/facilities
* Jump Drive supply usage and cost increase by alot
* AI now will add 1% techs to spread chance
* Alot of minor thing
* Event that transfers pop from ship to domed planet

No AI support
1. Components - FTL Field, Mini Jump Drive, FTL Projector, and VW Force Beam.
2. Facilities - Dimensional Pocket Gate, Medical Clinic

'I'm updated the website as well, I'm still working on the note pages. Also a new tech chart for 9.0 is in the download section as well. Let me know what you think of it too, please.

I was waiting for it to show up in the download section here, but after almost a week of waiting I decide to post it anyways. Enjoy Very Happy

ekolis · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 8:53 am Post subject:

Yay!

Anyone wanna start a PBW game?

Tnarg · Space Emperor Joined: Dec 28, 2007

I would be interested in a good PBW game.

ForesterSOF · Space Emperor Joined: Jun 23, 2007

Same here.

ekolis · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 8:43 am Post subject:

Anyone want to host or should I?

ForesterSOF · Space Emperor Joined: Jun 23, 2007

the joy of hosting is no longer there so feel free.

when i see the game on pbw2 will be sure to join.

already have an idea of how i want my emp to go.

ekolis · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 10:21 am Post subject:

http://pbw.spaceempires.net/game/ccmod9

R-TEAM · Space Emperor Joined: Dec 04, 2010

Hi,

VERY nice ... Smile

A question -> is FQM now integrated or will it be an seperate patch like V8 ?

EDIT >> I mean FQM support ... Wink

Regards
R-TEAM

Tnarg · Space Emperor Joined: Dec 28, 2007

Just out of curiosity, is level 1 insanity research supposed to be 600 research points, where as level 1 research is 500 research points? Seems low considering the possible calamities involved with this facility.

rnl · Moderator Joined: Jun 02, 2008

ekolis · Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 1:34 am Post subject:

Ugh, you still haven't gotten rid of Formula Studies and replace your random research formulas with scripts like I suggested? I thought you said you'd do that for v9... Sad

Tnarg · Space Emperor Joined: Dec 28, 2007

Kamikazekiwi · Space Emperor Joined: Jul 22, 2011

It seems that you are unable to apply any kind of armor on your ship shipsets when you're playing with the Organic Host trait.
No problems for Bases, sattelites or freighters. Haven't tested drones.

Artful_Bodger · Space Emperor Joined: Aug 23, 2009

I have had armour on my Org Host designs.
I use organic armour.

There is a design trade off between speed(i.e. the number of engines present), defensive armour and offensive pod weapons or defence drones.

Have you maxed out the number of engines on your ship design?
If so there will be no space for armour.

Similarly if you use less than max engines, but max out podded weapons you won't be able to add any armour either.

Kamikazekiwi · Space Emperor Joined: Jul 22, 2011

Aha!
I thought that the speed/armor tradeoff was applied only as the text in the armor description said.

Great! Smile

Going back to do empire wide battle once more.

ekolis · Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 8:17 am Post subject:

Oh, so now instead of armor reducing your speed with the same number of engines, it just counts as an engine itself? That's pretty cool! Hope it consumes supplies as you move, though...

ekolis · Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 8:48 am Post subject:

Now I want to use that idea in Stellar Warfare Mod! Very Happy

And I came up with some enhancements, too - in addition to external missiles, you could have external bombs, external cargo bays, external supply and ordnance storage, external unit launch bays...

Maybe you could even reduce the supply usage of all engines, but instead give all hulls an intrinsic thrust ability of zero but with a supply usage proportional to their mass? Dunno if that will work, though... might only work for components, not hulls!

Artful_Bodger · Space Emperor Joined: Aug 23, 2009

There is already an external fighter bay component.

If you have been following the beta thread, you'll see that mixing them with real fighter bays slows down the launch rate.
OK on the like of colonisers though.

Tnarg · Space Emperor Joined: Dec 28, 2007

VC Corporation, I kind of sort of have an idea how they work, but am looking for a bit of detailed explanation on how to master them.

rnl · Moderator Joined: Jun 02, 2008

VC Corporation work with the Corp/Private Funding event to provide a way of increasing the amount of private research points the event product. The upside is that VC is a small building that provides some resource from taxes collected from it. And that it also has a random bonus value that time the standard RP it provides between 0-4. Now on the downside if you have to many in the game there is a small chance that a few planets will get unhappy. Now if you have a lot ,over 100, the unhappy doubles so enjoy. Twisted Evil

Oh also there is a chance that you may not get any research points at all to due to the random bonus of VC too. Surprised

Artful_Bodger · Space Emperor Joined: Aug 23, 2009

It seems that somewhere along the way the Xi'Chung have lost their organic trait on quick start.
Intended ?

rnl · Moderator Joined: Jun 02, 2008

I never use quick start, so no. I'm not even sure how they lost it, honesty, I never work on them or worried about them. Anybody got a clue on how I could have screw them up. At work tonight, so I can't work on it, but still like an idea, thanks.

ekolis · Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 1:14 am Post subject:

The PBW game will be open to new players through Friday, October 19, and we'll start on Monday, October 22 with any players who have uploaded emp files. (Or over the weekend if everyone who joins gets their emp files in sooner!)

rnl · Moderator Joined: Jun 02, 2008

Hi, other then the quick start problem has anybody found any other problems with the Mod so far.

Also what do you guys think of the tech chart, any mistakes?

Tnarg · Space Emperor Joined: Dec 28, 2007

Looking good so far, only on turn 80, but no bugs, no errors! Just a great challenge.