Posted October 22, 2016
high rated
A mod for SPAZ 1, which does some re-adjustments and fixes for more enjoyable game.
Overall there will be much more flexibility in weapon use, probably less resource mining as hangar size is equal during progression, but gameplay is more demanding, requiring more tactics, but less frustrating.
Features:
- warp gates: starts cloaked and a bit stronger, this enormously improves cloak tactics.
- clockwork: goon cloning on level up disabled, but goons available in crates/ships/bases.
- clockwork: all four hangars progress with equal size, but the progression is slower (almost painfull midgame).
- clockwork: great increase in resource storage capacities.
- ships: rebalancing of all ship properties according to its roles, size, tech class.
- ships: rebalancing of schematics depending on ship value.
- ships: improved descriptions.
- ships: granularity between rez size and cargo ships, small cargo ships won't pick large rez blocks, but rez value per block is increased.
- ships: enemy bases/stations a LOT more formidable, this includes endboss and bounty hunters, which requires tactics and some level to defeat - based on their level.
- ships: modified saucer to use huge turret slot (as there were not huge slots in this class) and balanced it.
- ships: balanced end-game zombie ship hp.
- all items: unified the properties and fixed their order.
- all items: fixed consistency in descriptions.
- unification of active weapon slots: each active w.slot can now equip beam, cannon and missile weapons.
- unification of passive weapon slot: each passive w.slot can equip drones, mines, bombs or missiles.
- extended lifetime to important items on battlefield: ejected goons, data, schematics.
- weapons: small gravity missiles do ion damage instead, renamed to "warp missiles". Larger gravity missiles unaffected. This is because their value is otherwise outclassed very soon by appearance of larger ships.
- weapons: fixed hunter srm using half missiles compared to normal srm, as its an upgrade. the downside is expressed in reloading time.
- weapons: all weapons have 10 research levels and are improved to degree to be used as attack weapons.
- weapons: huge fixed turret introduced, vanilla only has large version.
- weapons: made laser and ion more efficient on shields.
- weapons: original fake (cannon-powered) bomber drones were converted to (fake) missile drones, that benefit from missile tree and do explosive damage.
- weapons: ion emitter mine, which secondary damage conflicted with existing ion mine, was modified. now it inflicts gravity effect on engine, that disabling it - then moves for a kill, making it truly horrifying anti-ship weapon (unless point defense installed).
- weapons: mines - massively reduced gpu stress by decreasing scanning animation frequency. Most evident was the lag of cursor in large minefields. However this does increase difficulty for player to spot the minefield.
- armor: advanced armor plating is an upgrade, instead of downgrade.
- cloak: made experimental cloak worth it and shields equal to cloak on protection, improved descriptions.
- shields: improved quick-charge and fortress shields, making both linear upgrade, improved descriptions.
- reactor: improved quick-charge reactor to be high-end instead of trade-off. Rebalanced reactors.
- experience: increase is more linear and overall a bit faster using slightly different formula. No multiple level gains and slow increase afterwards.
- files: unified comments in each file about what mod has changed
- experience2: slower experience balancing
- ships2: hangars size limits unlocked, schematics requirements increased
- ships: overlooked balance of tiny ships, now should be good
- weapons: corrosive wasp bomb damage increased; large mines radius increased, amount for random mines decreased, poll rate increased, damage increased; three drone types should now truly be equal.
- rez: found and unlocked rez mining limiters, implemented chance and amount vars for easy manual changing (should you want)
- [rtcvb32] warp gates: greater warp distance, to prevent gate appear right next to torpedo rack of large enemy base
- [rtcvb32] crates: sometimes more better crates in random areas; sometimes more waste field
- weapons2: large mine radius and damage slightly reduced back, while amount increased back to 30, to create more effective field (field testing proved update too low efficiency)
- all items: improved descriptions and more spell checks
- shields: fortress shield regeneration rate slightly increased
- ships: consistency update - for huge hulls, made freighter appear first and starliner later, similar to how tug and yacht appear in smaller hull classes
- ships: starliner, two huge launcher slots replaced with two bomber slots to allow bomber modification. This doesn't change ai-controlled ship designs, since bomber slot is compatible with launcher one. Modified one enemy starliner design to use this
- ships: sun spot, rotated two of three drone/bomb slots, so that sunspot can properly launch launcher weapons from them, instead of around it
- turret: add two tripple turret subvariants - large and medium
- turret: add huge quad turret variant, which is balanced: [large,medium,medium,large], tripple huge is [large, large, large]
- mines: lowered ion mine chance for random field, otherwise it felt like downgrade
- mines: solved problem of large minefield generators - large generators now drop large mines. This allowed to reduce total amount of generated mines, hence scanning frequency can go up
- ship designs: fixed incorrect weapon variables found in some design in basegame
- [rtcvb32] tutorial: reflect new rez value in tutorial picture
- weapons: two basic beams and lasers - beams damage up x1.5, cannon damage up x1.2
- weapons: two basic beams and lasers - reduce energy consumption
- weapons: srm damage 20->12, hunter srm 25->14, were definitely overpowered
- damage resists: armor vs beam slightly decrease from 1 to 1.15, hull vs explosive increase from 3 to 2
FAQ/Tips:
SHIP SIZES:
Most of the time you will be outclassed by hull size - until you find enough schematics. Hangar size limits were removed in 3.2, you only need to collect plenty of ship schematics of your enemies to build similar ships.
SUCCEEDING:
In order to succeed, its better to invest in one weapon type until its maxed out. Missiles are probably better choice at beginning of game, as they are auto-targeting and pretty versatile with torpedo against slow ships, missile against fast ships. Once turrets appear, beams and cannons become far easier to land a shot.
REZ AND GOONS:
If you want more resources, nobody prohibits you from blowing up the friendly quarry and mining everything yourself with a huge beam. Or two.
Goons are plenty in empty sectors - or at civ colony stations. So maybe its also a good idea to resist blowing up the colony stations. Cloning on level up was simply overpowered and hence removed. Clockwork has much more space now, so you will be running around much much less.
In final stage of game, make sure to secure at least several Colonies for surplus goons - and don't assign too much crew in AI controlled ships.
BASES:
Base hp heavily depends on Type (T1 is weakest) and game stage. If you feel too weak to take on the base, you can bring it down to lower type through missions ("Faction Strength -1" type). The bases are pretty durable, so conventional weapons will not work efficiently, unless they are huge and plenty. Try something with a larger blast radius or more hideous. As of Bounty Hunters - you need to find the way to deal with their bases, if you want to take them down. If its painful, come back later after few upgrades and new strategy.
Download and Install Instructions:
1) copy this (3.6) as raw and paste into new file, "more_fun.txt"
2) convert it from base64:
base64 -di more_fun.txt > more_fun.7z
3) extract archive into new folder, then copy it into "Mods" subfolder.
4) in launcher, select "More Fun Mod".
Mod is provided in source code form, and is automatically compiled by the game on first run.
If you change the source, use "clean_mod.sh" to clear the generated binary files.
New game recommended.
License: LGPL
Current version: 3.6
If you need an older:
- 3.5 version pastebin dot com/qhrSAeQS
- 3.3 version pastebin dot com/kawRjKiP
- 3.1 version pastebin dot com/aTLu1idC
Overall there will be much more flexibility in weapon use, probably less resource mining as hangar size is equal during progression, but gameplay is more demanding, requiring more tactics, but less frustrating.
Features:
- warp gates: starts cloaked and a bit stronger, this enormously improves cloak tactics.
- clockwork: goon cloning on level up disabled, but goons available in crates/ships/bases.
- clockwork: all four hangars progress with equal size, but the progression is slower (almost painfull midgame).
- clockwork: great increase in resource storage capacities.
- ships: rebalancing of all ship properties according to its roles, size, tech class.
- ships: rebalancing of schematics depending on ship value.
- ships: improved descriptions.
- ships: granularity between rez size and cargo ships, small cargo ships won't pick large rez blocks, but rez value per block is increased.
- ships: enemy bases/stations a LOT more formidable, this includes endboss and bounty hunters, which requires tactics and some level to defeat - based on their level.
- ships: modified saucer to use huge turret slot (as there were not huge slots in this class) and balanced it.
- ships: balanced end-game zombie ship hp.
- all items: unified the properties and fixed their order.
- all items: fixed consistency in descriptions.
- unification of active weapon slots: each active w.slot can now equip beam, cannon and missile weapons.
- unification of passive weapon slot: each passive w.slot can equip drones, mines, bombs or missiles.
- extended lifetime to important items on battlefield: ejected goons, data, schematics.
- weapons: small gravity missiles do ion damage instead, renamed to "warp missiles". Larger gravity missiles unaffected. This is because their value is otherwise outclassed very soon by appearance of larger ships.
- weapons: fixed hunter srm using half missiles compared to normal srm, as its an upgrade. the downside is expressed in reloading time.
- weapons: all weapons have 10 research levels and are improved to degree to be used as attack weapons.
- weapons: huge fixed turret introduced, vanilla only has large version.
- weapons: made laser and ion more efficient on shields.
- weapons: original fake (cannon-powered) bomber drones were converted to (fake) missile drones, that benefit from missile tree and do explosive damage.
- weapons: ion emitter mine, which secondary damage conflicted with existing ion mine, was modified. now it inflicts gravity effect on engine, that disabling it - then moves for a kill, making it truly horrifying anti-ship weapon (unless point defense installed).
- weapons: mines - massively reduced gpu stress by decreasing scanning animation frequency. Most evident was the lag of cursor in large minefields. However this does increase difficulty for player to spot the minefield.
- armor: advanced armor plating is an upgrade, instead of downgrade.
- cloak: made experimental cloak worth it and shields equal to cloak on protection, improved descriptions.
- shields: improved quick-charge and fortress shields, making both linear upgrade, improved descriptions.
- reactor: improved quick-charge reactor to be high-end instead of trade-off. Rebalanced reactors.
- experience: increase is more linear and overall a bit faster using slightly different formula. No multiple level gains and slow increase afterwards.
- files: unified comments in each file about what mod has changed
- experience2: slower experience balancing
- ships2: hangars size limits unlocked, schematics requirements increased
- ships: overlooked balance of tiny ships, now should be good
- weapons: corrosive wasp bomb damage increased; large mines radius increased, amount for random mines decreased, poll rate increased, damage increased; three drone types should now truly be equal.
- rez: found and unlocked rez mining limiters, implemented chance and amount vars for easy manual changing (should you want)
- [rtcvb32] warp gates: greater warp distance, to prevent gate appear right next to torpedo rack of large enemy base
- [rtcvb32] crates: sometimes more better crates in random areas; sometimes more waste field
- weapons2: large mine radius and damage slightly reduced back, while amount increased back to 30, to create more effective field (field testing proved update too low efficiency)
- all items: improved descriptions and more spell checks
- shields: fortress shield regeneration rate slightly increased
- ships: consistency update - for huge hulls, made freighter appear first and starliner later, similar to how tug and yacht appear in smaller hull classes
- ships: starliner, two huge launcher slots replaced with two bomber slots to allow bomber modification. This doesn't change ai-controlled ship designs, since bomber slot is compatible with launcher one. Modified one enemy starliner design to use this
- ships: sun spot, rotated two of three drone/bomb slots, so that sunspot can properly launch launcher weapons from them, instead of around it
- turret: add two tripple turret subvariants - large and medium
- turret: add huge quad turret variant, which is balanced: [large,medium,medium,large], tripple huge is [large, large, large]
- mines: lowered ion mine chance for random field, otherwise it felt like downgrade
- mines: solved problem of large minefield generators - large generators now drop large mines. This allowed to reduce total amount of generated mines, hence scanning frequency can go up
- ship designs: fixed incorrect weapon variables found in some design in basegame
- [rtcvb32] tutorial: reflect new rez value in tutorial picture
- weapons: two basic beams and lasers - beams damage up x1.5, cannon damage up x1.2
- weapons: two basic beams and lasers - reduce energy consumption
- weapons: srm damage 20->12, hunter srm 25->14, were definitely overpowered
- damage resists: armor vs beam slightly decrease from 1 to 1.15, hull vs explosive increase from 3 to 2
FAQ/Tips:
SHIP SIZES:
Most of the time you will be outclassed by hull size - until you find enough schematics. Hangar size limits were removed in 3.2, you only need to collect plenty of ship schematics of your enemies to build similar ships.
SUCCEEDING:
In order to succeed, its better to invest in one weapon type until its maxed out. Missiles are probably better choice at beginning of game, as they are auto-targeting and pretty versatile with torpedo against slow ships, missile against fast ships. Once turrets appear, beams and cannons become far easier to land a shot.
REZ AND GOONS:
If you want more resources, nobody prohibits you from blowing up the friendly quarry and mining everything yourself with a huge beam. Or two.
Goons are plenty in empty sectors - or at civ colony stations. So maybe its also a good idea to resist blowing up the colony stations. Cloning on level up was simply overpowered and hence removed. Clockwork has much more space now, so you will be running around much much less.
In final stage of game, make sure to secure at least several Colonies for surplus goons - and don't assign too much crew in AI controlled ships.
BASES:
Base hp heavily depends on Type (T1 is weakest) and game stage. If you feel too weak to take on the base, you can bring it down to lower type through missions ("Faction Strength -1" type). The bases are pretty durable, so conventional weapons will not work efficiently, unless they are huge and plenty. Try something with a larger blast radius or more hideous. As of Bounty Hunters - you need to find the way to deal with their bases, if you want to take them down. If its painful, come back later after few upgrades and new strategy.
Download and Install Instructions:
1) copy this (3.6) as raw and paste into new file, "more_fun.txt"
2) convert it from base64:
base64 -di more_fun.txt > more_fun.7z
3) extract archive into new folder, then copy it into "Mods" subfolder.
4) in launcher, select "More Fun Mod".
Mod is provided in source code form, and is automatically compiled by the game on first run.
If you change the source, use "clean_mod.sh" to clear the generated binary files.
New game recommended.
License: LGPL
Current version: 3.6
If you need an older:
- 3.5 version pastebin dot com/qhrSAeQS
- 3.3 version pastebin dot com/kawRjKiP
- 3.1 version pastebin dot com/aTLu1idC
Post edited March 28, 2020 by Lin545
