Project: Apolyton Pack

[Illuminatus]

Indeed #endgame, indeed. I've been away for a few days, but I'll start posting the initial list of changes included after Christmas is over.

Tested and verified changes:

-Replaced opening menu.wav with new opening menu music by MatthewH86.
-Added 24 new land base names for The Lord's Believers
-Added 32 new land base names and 7 new sea base names for Data Angels
-Added 6 new land base names for The University of Planet
-Added 6 new land base names for Gaia's Stepdaughters
-Added 3 new land base names for The Human Hive
(sadly I've temporarily misplaced all but two of my papers with new base names)
-Contains 21-06-2004 Solstice challenge (all versions) by Chaos Theory
-Contains 21-06-2005 Solstice challenge (all versions) by Chaos Theory
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[Corvi #6]

So is this thing still going? Can I help?

[Illuminatus]

Paused until I sort all my exams. I was tinkering with movies and voices before I took a break.

[Corvi #6]

Dammit. Well, keep us posted. And good luck with the exams!

[Maniac]

Originally posted by Illuminatus
Paused until I sort all my exams. I was tinkering with movies and voices before I took a break.

What do you need to know about those? Perhaps I know the answer.

[#endgame]

I've noticed that ModMan is broken for me. I'm pretty sure that I need to make checks so it runs properly on both Win9x and Win2KXP.

If people would be so kind as to give me information about their OS here:

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=118976

I'd appreciate it.

[Illuminatus]

Originally posted by Maniac


What do you need to know about those? Perhaps I know the answer.

I'll inform you when I resume the work within a week.

[bluetemplar]

About Data angels:
What a pity you can't change Covert Ops Center to +1 probe... would benefit all factions! (fundy + covert ops)

I think what comes the nearer to the current Data Angels abilities with +1 Probe is:
ROBUST, PROBE => When running knowledge, DA will get 1-2/2=0 , it's exactly the same that when they had +2 : 2-2=0
and
PROBECOST 50 instead of PROBECOST 75 : compensates the loss of +1 probe morale and the cost of enemy probe actions divided by 4/3 (2 to 1.5 when PROBE +2 to +1).

IMHO it compensates the PROBE bug very well without giving the DA the overwhelming probe immunity (they always can run fundy if they want it before PSA...)

[Qwerty88]

the angels will always suffer from probe rollover, I just tried giving them +1 probe, with psa their bases were imune to mind control (+3), but there units weren't (only +1) if they ran fudy and had psa, units couldn't be subverted, but bases (including the units that would normaly be taken with the base) could be subverted

[bluetemplar]

Of course, but +1 is still better than +2, since now they CAN run fundy and get the probe bonus... with PSA their units were never supposed to be immune anyway without fundy, it's just that now after-PSA they must choose between being offensive: +3 probe units, +0 bases , or defensive : +1 probe units +3 bases. Sure they can't have +4/+4 as it was intended with fundy/after PSA, but at least they have the compensation of 3/2 reduced probe action cost (from 0.75 to 0.5)... maybe to offset even further this disadvantage we might reduce PROBECOST to 33-45, but it might become too powerful in the mid-late game when you start having lot of cash...
(also with +1 they can beneficially use thought control later in the game...)

[Qwerty88]

the main point is probe rollover has to be fixed, not the angels

[#endgame]

But since we can't fix rollover, we could fix the angels instead, since they have the biggest problem with it.