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Go Big or Go Home online multiplayer -- Capital Ships only games -- RULES YOU NEED TO KNOW

Go Big or Go Home online multiplayer -- Capital Ships only games -- RULES YOU NEED TO KNOW

Capital ships only for online multiplayer--fun but we need a mod.

 

 

 

DT, Payn, Yodakore and some other folks played a capital-ships only game earlier tonight and it was fun, or at least I had fun. I also played one later with Payn where we let people select whichever race they wanted to and that was good too. We need to get someone to make a mod for this to enforce the rules.

The rules are:


Capital ships only--if it doesn't come out of a capital ship factory you can't build it. (Scuttle your frigate factory at the start of the game.)

No scouts (see above).

No frigates.

No cruisers.

No health or regeneration bays on the planets.

No strikecraft hangers on the planets (turrets are OK).

No Novalith cannons (possibly no level 8 superweapons but it's dumb to build them for Advent or Vasari anyway).

No Returning Armada (phase gates OK).

The problem is that if someone drops from the game the AI takes over and breaks the rules, hence the need for a mod.

 

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Reply #26 Top

is there a way to put engines on those SuperWeapons and use them as a different class of capital ship? just a thought O:)

Reply #27 Top

edit: sorry folks, this was deleted for a double post edit ^_^'

Reply #28 Top

Quoting GunMetalXENO, reply 1
is there a way to put engines on those SuperWeapons and use them as a different class of capital ship? just a thought
End of GunMetalXENO's quote

The way it works is the actual structure is just a mechanism to launch the projectile, and the projectile is where all the fun happens. In theory it is possible to put the projectile launch ability onto a ship. But until 1.1 there's still a cap of 5 capitals :P

Reply #29 Top

 

i got a problem i been tring to play the mod but sense its my frist one i dout kown whatto do can some help me

 

Reply #30 Top

Download it.

Exract it to your mods folder using WinRar or 7Zip.

From the main menu, go to Options - Mods. (From there, you can also see the file path the mod should be extracted to.)

 

You must be running patch 1.05 I assume.

 

:fox:

Reply #31 Top

 

frist thanks but were can i find 7zip or winrar

Reply #32 Top

Google them.

 

:fox:

Reply #33 Top

thanks fro the help :grin:

Reply #35 Top

i remember playing these games i was the one who convincened the host to let choose race in third game. me and him owned that comp

 

Reply #36 Top

 

I'd love to actually get some games going online with this mod, but folks need to download and install it ahead of time.  I think the biggest problem is that the online multiplayer player counts are too low to really support mods online.  I mean, if there were, say, 500 people online at one time then perhaps 20 people would have it and it would be possible to get a game going with it, but when you have fewer than 80 people it's hard to do.

As a general rule, custom content isn't viable without high player counts.  Also, it would help if we had an auto-download feature (perhaps as an option that could be turned on and off) for custom maps and mods.

Reply #38 Top

 

Thank Annatar.  Guess I need to remake all of my custom maps now, too.

Reply #39 Top

This mod looks fun. I'm going to try it with my roommate one of these days.

Reply #40 Top

its a nice mod... quite fun... i also made my own edits to it... i doubled stats on the caps so they can take on the militias without needed a whole bunch of caps to clear out a neutral planet.... its also sweet to see two or three maxed out fleets going head to head doing so much damage... especially against lvl 1-5 caps... so sweet!

Reply #41 Top

 

<Bump>

If only someone could update Annatar's mod for us...

Reply #42 Top

I can, though I don't have the original anymore since I swapped PCs. If you can upload it somewhere, I'll get it updated quickly.

Reply #44 Top

I summon thee, the dead spirits of long gone thread!

 

 

Reply #46 Top

 

Thanks!  You rock, Annatar!

Reply #47 Top

 

The capital ship fleet supplies increased, but I was still able to build the frigates and other ships players aren't supposed to be able to build.

Reply #48 Top

That's not right, I checked all the races and none of them were able to build frigate factories. All started with a capital factory instead. Strange.. when you enable the mod, what's your file checksum?

Reply #49 Top

 

What's a file checksum?

Reply #50 Top

oooo.... EPIC...

 

I WANNA PLAY DIS!!

 

downloaded... whos up?