New Bombard weapons

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New Bombard weapons

#1 Post by spikethehobbit »

EMP Generator (kills robotic)
Graviton Pulse (kills lithic)
Dark Ray (kills phototrophic)
Chaos Wave (kills everything)

Something I came up with a while ago, but forgot to submit.
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Re: New Bombard weapons

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Can you create a pull request with that patch on github? That's the recommended way to provide patches now.

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Sound like some pretty sweet doomsday weapons!
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Pull request "New bombardment weapons #411" submitted to github.
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Looks good. As I can see, you've already put a license statement into your sig, can you extend that a bit? Game content (like the content scripts in your patch) is also licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license, so we also need a license statement from you covering that. For reference, see the official license statement of the FreeOrion Project as contained here.

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Re: New Bombard weapons

#6 Post by spikethehobbit »

Fixed.
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Re: New Bombard weapons

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Have added some comments on the PR, I like the overall work, it's good, there are some copy/paste errors (perhaps replace all uses of monsters using death spores with monsters using bombardment weapons?).

If implemented, then the organic base weapon needs reverting, which I'd be fine with, but we then need to sort out what to do with monsters that use them. It springs to mind that there could be a monster using each type of basic weapon, also that the death wave could be used by Experimentor beasties.

Good work, needs tweaking ;-)
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Thank you for your suggestions and corrections.
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spikethehobbit wrote:Fixed.
Perfect. Another thing: Is there a real name you want to provide for the credits, or should we just list you under your nick ("spikethehobbit")?

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I'm already in there as Spike. :)
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spikethehobbit wrote:I'm already in there as Spike. :)
Ah, yes, right. Strange, I did search credits.xml for "spike" before and didn't find you, that's why I asked... well, must have mistyped "spike" somehow ;)

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Balance Issue

#12 Post by spikethehobbit »

In play testing, I have found a balance issue with the new weapons: Monsters bombard every planet in a system when they visit it. This means a trio of Black Kraken armed with a single Chaos Wave each would kill 6 population per planet. In a system with 4 planets, that is 24 population lost, which seems excessive. What I recommend is that monsters bombard one randomly chosen planet each when visiting a system, but I am not sure how to implement that.
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Re: Balance Issue

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spikethehobbit wrote:In play testing, I have found a balance issue with the new weapons: Monsters bombard every planet in a system when they visit it. This means a trio of Black Kraken armed with a single Chaos Wave each would kill 6 population per planet. In a system with 4 planets, that is 24 population lost, which seems excessive. What I recommend is that monsters bombard one randomly chosen planet each when visiting a system, but I am not sure how to implement that.
I agree, and neither do I. Anyone?
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Re: New Bombard weapons

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Isn't there a "OneOf" function in FOCS which randomly picks one item out of a list of items...?

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#15 Post by Geoff the Medio »

Vezzra wrote:Isn't there a "OneOf" function in FOCS which randomly picks one item out of a list of items...?
Yes, but in this case you'd want the NumberOf condition to pick one in-game object.

OneOf(...,...,...) is used to specify that one of a list of values (numbers, planet types, strings, etc.) should be evaluated and used.

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