MOD New Battle Behaviors (Crusade Opt-in 5/22)

Go4Celerity

Join Date 05/2015

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MOD New Battle Behaviors (Crusade Opt-in 5/22)

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[Edited for 2.14 5/12/17]

I hate exploits and love flavor. I don't like how stacking defenses on Escorts and weapons on Capitals works the battle system. I also don't like how the stacking of % reductions to weapon cooldowns ends up boosting missiles' rate of fire by 1900% with the right techs/parts.

I've altered the XMLs in the hopes of making it significantly less exploitable.

Vanilla ship leveling is boring. I changed that, too.

The Mod is in the external link above. Copy the Game file to Documents/My Games/ GC3Crusade and enable mods in your game options to add this.

With this mod:

Interceptors will now intercept. They defend Assault, Support, and Starbases.
Attack and defense priorities were redefined for all ship types.
Guardians will behave as I would expect orbital and starbase defenders to act.
Support ships will actively engage in hostilities but start much further back than previously.
Starbases will begin the battle much closer to the front. I mean for them to participate in the engagement with their defenders rather than separately. I may not have the setting quite right yet. (feedback please)
Hulls Tiny/ Small/ Medium/ Large/ Huge/ and Support respectively have been modified to:

Base Movement [Edited 11/30/16] 2.5/ 1.5/ 1/ -0.5 /-1/ 0

Tactical Speed +0.3/ +0.1/ +0/ -0.1/ -0.3/ -0.5

Acceleration +0.5/ +0.2/ +0/ -0.2/ -0.5/ -0.5

Jamming/Evasion added [Edited 5/12/17] +0.25/ +0.1/ 0/ -0.2/ -0.3/ -0.5

(Added 2.0) All weapon cooldown stat modifiers changed to flat from multiplicative with approximately twice their former values. This makes the net effect of any one bonus the same without stacked cooldown effect getting absurd. EX: -95% missile cooldown from a base of 4 was possible, with this -2 from the base 4 is possible.

(Added 2.0) Ship levels now grant small bonuses to Accuracy, Jamming (Dodge), MovesCap, Experience value, Weapon Attacks, and Defenses. These changes are not uniform. Tiny hulls gain greater evasion and movement while gaining no defensive bonuses, Small hulls gain greater Accuracy than others, and Hit Point, Weapon Damage, and Defenses scale up by greater percentages for larger hull types.

(Added 2.14)

Adopted adjusted Logistics costs of 2.14
Exceeded tweaks to ship hull manufacturing costs. This MOD is now (small to huge) 5/ 20/ 50/ 150/ 500, cargo unchanged
Upped all ships' Defense range to 500 for kicks (not expected to make any difference whatsoever)
reduced evasion of tiny hulls 0.3 to 0.25, increased evasion of huge hulls -0.4 to -0.3

In forthcoming updates to this mod I intend to:

Add ship stat bonuses and penalties to battle roles. (If I can find a way.) (Edit: not supported by enums and XSD, Community Modding Wishlist noted)
Limit Interceptor to Tiny, Assault to Tiny/Small, Escort to Small/Medium, Guardian to Small/Large, and Capital to Medium/Large/Huge. (If I can find a way) (Edit: not supported by enums and XSD, Community Modding Wishlist noted)
Strengthen core ship blueprints.
Alter drone blueprints and tweak the modules, components, techs, etc. dealing with them so that my changes won't be imbalanced.
(added with 2.0 edit) Would like to modify Military Starbases, but I need a trigger that lets its dronescaps initiate battles with enemy ships entering the base's AOE.
Maybe more.

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barrybeal

Join Date 04/2003

not sure TechDefs.XML changes affect the game at all any more - anything you have to change would have to affect MasterTechDefs.XLM. And with all the bugs in the tech tree that XML file would have to be changed with every patch. Not sure if any of the other XML files work differently for Crusade but they change the ShipComponentDefs.XML file fairly often as well.

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Thank you for catching that. You're very right. It's only 2 lines of code I've modded there so far, so it's easy to keep up.

FIXED. And plus Karma. (Or not. Sorry, the site is feeding me an error whenever I click the thumbs-up.)

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Updated for latest opt-in.

Removed Tech Age tweak from the Linked Mod folder.

Supplemental Mods with links:

Simple XML edit to make all minor races major races (no abilities or life types so all of their techs are completely generic): https://www.dropbox.com/s/work1i5cvl94hk2/FactionDefs.xml?dl=1
Mod to stretch length of Age of Expansion: https://www.dropbox.com/s/n14hil5y2y0vmcl/TechAgeDefs.xml?dl=1
My personal preferences for GalCiv3GlobalDefs.xml (if you want specifics I've tagged all of my changes with a commented out "Go4" easily found with Control+F in Notepad++): https://www.dropbox.com/s/o1qazqdblrd59kh/GalCiv3GlobalDefs.xml?dl=1

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Incorporated changes in today's update to modded files, fixed supplemental mod in above post for making all minor factions major factions (credit to Horem for pointing out where I'd messed up on that one).

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Could you elaborate on how the ship roles have been altered. What the primary targets of the roles are now with your mod?

Thanks

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