Rallying call for all interested: Colonisation of the Moon mod!
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Check this out: A satellite unit. Can we use it somehow?
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=161074
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=161074
Ooooh, a reconnaissance satellite sounds cool. Can they be shot down? I wonder if Belizan could code them actually moving around the Moon?
And that Wonder sounds like a winner. I'll have to try adding when I get back to Wonders.
And that Wonder sounds like a winner. I'll have to try adding when I get back to Wonders.
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woodelf said:
Shot down? If it can be coded that using the recon (binocular) button is similar as an attack, it would have the same chances of being intercepted as bombing and air striking craft. And for moving around, if in effect the range is the entire moon, but the "view" 20 plots wide you have a similar effect. Think of the satellite being "present" in a particular base as the home of its ground station.
Another way of simulating such a sat moving around is that it automatically rebases to the closest allied base from its recon point. In effect this is every closest base with which your faction isn't at war with.
But since such an extended view is quite overpowered, the number of recon sats being buildable should be limited.
woodelf said:
None of the others I forwarded then?
They're on the backburner while I focus on 1st-2nd era Wonders. This one will most likely be later as well...There is no wind on the Moon, so Dust is not much of an issue.
As for the satellite model, it's very cool, but I had a different inmplementation of satellites in mind then having them be really long range planes.
Also, you can not, to my knowledge, impact or alter in anyway the behaviour of aircraft missions (other then via the XML settings). Save for messing with the interface, I guess (which would only effect the player)
As for the satellite model, it's very cool, but I had a different inmplementation of satellites in mind then having them be really long range planes.
Also, you can not, to my knowledge, impact or alter in anyway the behaviour of aircraft missions (other then via the XML settings). Save for messing with the interface, I guess (which would only effect the player)
I'm not sure if wind would be the only cause of dust though. If you run a tank across the Moon won't some sort of charged particles begin to become an issue? This way you can always be repulsing the dust before you attract it. 
I have no idea, but it sounds good.
I have no idea, but it sounds good.
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Belizan said:
Solar wind anyone?
Dust definitely is an issue, since it clings to everything and would clog moving parts on the long run. And it's not wind as we know it here that makes it free, but simply stirring it up by walking/riding over it.
Belizan - How is attrition going to work? Can we tie this Vacuum tech, Advanced Lubrication, ect into it so once you have these techs or maybe some repair promotion your attrition is lessened? Is that what you had planned?
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I am sorry I have not been around for the last couple of days and I will likely not do any work on the mod for the next couple of weeks.(I have 6 final exams next week) I will still be lurking on the forums to answer any questions anybody has.(If they are directed directly at me or the work I already did on the mod.)
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