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Weapons - should there be more differences?

December 30, 2014 12:50:42 PM from Galactic Civilizations III ForumsGalactic Civilizations III Forums

Should there be unique weapons for each race?

 

Right now everything leads to the Nightmare Torpedo/Doom Ray/Singularity Driver. I was thinking that there might be some races with more powerful guns, lasers, missiles, and certain special effects than others.

 

I think that it will have to wait for tactical combat to an extent, but right now they seem too alike.

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Echillion
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Reply #1 December 30, 2014 1:20:36 PM
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they probably haven't been implemented yet as the drengin had psyionic blasters and the others had different unique weapons and/or defences?

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Saareth
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Reply #2 December 30, 2014 6:34:30 PM
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Based on racetype would be great, unique to each race (letting modders select which race to use or mod in their own tech), would be amazing.

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Reply #3 December 30, 2014 8:08:42 PM
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I want big guns for use against capital ships and little guns for use against small ships.

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Reply #4 December 30, 2014 8:40:07 PM
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I would like missiles to be able to launched from a distance with an estimated impact so I can do a TOT (time on target) attack with energy weapons at the same instant.

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Reply #5 December 30, 2014 9:47:38 PM
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Quoting Saareth,
reply 2

Based on racetype would be great, unique to each race (letting modders select which race to use or mod in their own tech), would be amazing.

 

I agree, would be really cool.  Might pose a very difficult balancing challenge though.

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Reply #6 December 31, 2014 4:56:25 PM
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I think the way to go with this is to have race-specific weapon augments, but keep the base weapons the same.

 

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Reply #7 December 31, 2014 9:37:48 PM
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Quoting ,
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Should there be unique weapons for each race?

 

Right now everything leads to the Nightmare Torpedo/Doom Ray/Singularity Driver. I was thinking that there might be some races with more powerful guns, lasers, missiles, and certain special effects than others.

 

I think that it will have to wait for tactical combat to an extent, but right now they seem too alike.

When you say too alike you mean all races have the same. At some point this might change, but in general I am happy with the balancing and variations between the weapons, and defenses. Each is good at something, although beams aren't to balanced right now, they are considerably worse than other weapons in several categories.

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Reply #8 December 31, 2014 9:49:45 PM
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Quoting Tishers4U,
reply 4

I would like missiles to be able to launched from a distance with an estimated impact so I can do a TOT (time on target) attack with energy weapons at the same instant.

This sounds very interesting to me.    The problem would be implementation, I suppose.

 

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dragoaskani
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Reply #9 January 1, 2015 6:48:25 PM
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Not too likely for the base game. Maybe something they can add later on down the road though as things get fleshed out more.

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Reply #10 January 1, 2015 8:10:19 PM
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I haven't tried playing with it... But it -looks- like StatTypeGroupDefs.xml -might- allow us to make a fourth weapon type & the more fine grained techtree/shipconponents/etc itmight be possible to have multiple defense types on each defense item (or weapon

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Reply #11 January 1, 2015 10:35:55 PM
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I think that the tech should at least be as different as the last game if not more. I like individualised techs the more the merrior.

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Reply #12 January 22, 2015 6:19:08 PM
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With the combat viewer now  in, I think that this becomes a bigger priority.

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