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Re: make PP what they are suppose to be Mon, 08 August 2005 09:09 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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There is certainly a case for balancing the PP, CA and JOAT races a little more effectively. All of us that have played Stars! for many years know this (and this is why games are created with restrictions like CA with no TT and JOAT but no NAS).

In the Freestars code, I would like to see the hull mounted mass driver added since there will have to be additions for it made in the server side. This way, if it is decided to implement, the code will be mostly done and only has to be modified. The cost and research levels of such a part will have to be determined since I would not want to see it available until other races already had MD 7 capabilities - the advantage of a PP using a ship to packet planets too early on are obvious. This part will need to be limited as well to a MD7 so that ships will not have the capability of flinging packets at greater than warp 10.

The race wizard costs can be modified to help balance these 3 PRT's more effectively in version 1.0 - Even though Freestars will be a clone of Stars!, there is no reason to leave this issue undone. Version 1.0 should address some of the very easy items that need change.

Ptolemy




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