A tech system of sorts

Why not make a tier that can only be gotten out of rare red asteroids and these crash sites. You could call it " Ancient Owl tech", and you could also fix up the ships, but they would be rather weak, probably from all the duct tape...

Okay lets say the technology inside is not completely destroyed, but they would be damage, and you wouldn't have the knowledge to fix them,
and if you try to reverser engineer something that's broken, I don't think your going to get something that works.I kind of like the idea of finding intact ancient alien tech but
not for a the final tire maybe for a branch of the tree, and maybe you have to find more then one crash site,
cause the ship will be wreak in some places, but in the other site it might be fixed in those places and wreak in the others so you can use them both to make the tech.
So what the point of technological advancement if were all scavengers, even if you find this intact final tier stuff this stuff would far to advance to reverse engineer it.

So, you've got this research block. Or maybe it's a research team. Whatever. Anyway, you throw money, metal, and fuel into the block and eventually it gives you the ability to create new stuff. Or, you could steal someone else's new stuff and put it in the machine, in which case it would analyze it and tell you how to make/use it.

Correct.

We already agreed that there will NOT be a system of pumping shitloads of diamonds into a machine to level up. I also think there should be several branches. (This is an example) The Alien Branch may contain a sheild depleter, missile launcher, and a cloaking device. While the (Other name here) May contain phasers, shields, and missiles. (The example ends here) I think each branch should contain DIFFERENT items and they all should NOT be the same, but may sometimes have the same items.

what if that's what i want?

Khmac wrote:

We already agreed that there will NOT be a system of pumping shitloads of diamonds into a machine to level up. I also think there should be several branches. (This is an example) The Alien Branch may contain a sheild depleter, missile launcher, and a cloaking device. While the (Other name here) May contain phasers, shields, and missiles. (The example ends here) I think each branch should contain DIFFERENT items and they all should NOT be the same, but may sometimes have the same items.

Forcing specialization like this works well on a small scale, but no one wants to be stuck on the one tech path because they chose it at the beginning.

And how about you having to put stuff into the level-up machine that you have just researched last time you levelled?
And how about the possibility to start another research branche after you hit a certain level?
And how about not-researched crafting recipies beeing blocked until you researched it to prevent people from googleing anything because they would have to research it anyway?
Wait a minute... I JUST SOLVED ALL PROBLEMS THAT EVER APPEARD IN THIS IDEA.

nope. you didn't solve the fact that i used to be newby.

superninjakiwi wrote:

nope. you didn't solve the fact that i used to be newby.

I doubt that will matter for the development of the mod.

touche

superninjakiwi wrote:

touche

Guten Tag.
Ich spreche diese Sprache nicht.

Lord Mackeroth wrote:

Khmac wrote:

We already agreed that there will NOT be a system of pumping shitloads of diamonds into a machine to level up. I also think there should be several branches. (This is an example) The Alien Branch may contain a sheild depleter, missile launcher, and a cloaking device. While the (Other name here) May contain phasers, shields, and missiles. (The example ends here) I think each branch should contain DIFFERENT items and they all should NOT be the same, but may sometimes have the same items.

Forcing specialization like this works well on a small scale, but no one wants to be stuck on the one tech path because they chose it at the beginning.

Really? I thought we weren't gonna do that. I thought you could use ALL of the tech paths, but you gotta level up.

No leveling up. Its stupid to need to work, when you could just make a ship that looks like large, harvestable space junk, then steal the other persons sip while they are stealing your supplies. I plan to do that on the surface, also.

ACH0225 wrote:

No leveling up. Its stupid to need to work, when you could just make a ship that looks like large, harvestable space junk, then steal the other persons sip while they are stealing your supplies. I plan to do that on the surface, also.

YOU ARE OUT UMBERED BY MY ROBOT ARMY. STOP POPING MY DREAM OF A RESEARCH LAB.

Ivan2006 wrote:

ACH0225 wrote:

No leveling up. Its stupid to need to work, when you could just make a ship that looks like large, harvestable space junk, then steal the other persons sip while they are stealing your supplies. I plan to do that on the surface, also.

YOU ARE OUT UMBERED BY MY ROBOT ARMY. STOP POPING MY DREAM OF A RESEARCH LAB.

Please define the word, 'POPING'

Khmac wrote:

Ivan2006 wrote:

ACH0225 wrote:

No leveling up. Its stupid to need to work, when you could just make a ship that looks like large, harvestable space junk, then steal the other persons sip while they are stealing your supplies. I plan to do that on the surface, also.

YOU ARE OUT UMBERED BY MY ROBOT ARMY. STOP POPING MY DREAM OF A RESEARCH LAB.

Please define the word, 'POPING'

1st: With "poping", I mean


2nd: I restarted this thread because I am still interested in an official statement by a dev.

There will be some amount of leveling up, but that's only a piece of it, and it won't be through killing stuff like the enchantment system.

fr0stbyte124 wrote:

There will be some amount of leveling up, but that's only a piece of it, and it won't be through killing stuff like the enchantment system.

You know I had an idea where you level up by doing stuff in the mod like gathering resources, destroying ship, or capturing planets, ect, and all this exp would be gain by everyone in the server, and pooled into the overall server level, and when the sever gets enough exp, it would gain a level, and when it gains a level it would get a research point, and the higher the server level the more research points they would get,(lets say once they get to level 5 they get 2 research point and at 10, 3 and so on), this would be because the tech trees would branch off more in the higher tiers, and it would take to long to fill the trees up with only getting one point per level at higher levels. The admin would go to a menu that only he would be able to go to and put the points into different tech trees. Also the sever would have to be at a certain level to access higher tiers, so that a server doesn't pool all there points into a single tree, and get to the final tier, but still be a low level, unless developers want to do that, but its up to them.

Again with this server mentality. It doesn't mean anything when you can travel from server to server and are expected to do so. Having organizations is one thing, but it won't be the same dynamic it is in vanilla minecraft.

fr0stbyte124 wrote:

Again with this server mentality. It doesn't mean anything when you can travel from server to server and are expected to do so. Having organizations is one thing, but it won't be the same dynamic it is in vanilla minecraft.

I agree with fr0st, a server could easily be fractured into several groups, and then what if one group captures a planet, but the admin is in another group? They might not get the research towards what they need.

ACH0225 wrote:

fr0stbyte124 wrote:

Again with this server mentality. It doesn't mean anything when you can travel from server to server and are expected to do so. Having organizations is one thing, but it won't be the same dynamic it is in vanilla minecraft.

I agree with fr0st, a server could easily be fractured into several groups, and then what if one group captures a planet, but the admin is in another group? They might not get the research towards what they need.

Server like that would be doomed to fail with the consent inter server fighting, and the spilt on resources they would become weak, and easy prey for more united servers.
Besides that maybe a option that the admin has to group the players so the exp they get goes to there group.

Burnttoaster wrote:

ACH0225 wrote:

fr0stbyte124 wrote:

Again with this server mentality. It doesn't mean anything when you can travel from server to server and are expected to do so. Having organizations is one thing, but it won't be the same dynamic it is in vanilla minecraft.

I agree with fr0st, a server could easily be fractured into several groups, and then what if one group captures a planet, but the admin is in another group? They might not get the research towards what they need.

Server like that would be doomed to fail with the consent inter server fighting, and the spilt on resources they would become weak, and easy prey for more united servers.
Besides that maybe a option that the admin has to group the players so the exp they get goes to there group.

The point is, people can't always be grouped into servers, as many people will just grab a ship and traverse the stars as nomads.

ACH0225 wrote:

Burnttoaster wrote:

ACH0225 wrote:

fr0stbyte124 wrote:

Again with this server mentality. It doesn't mean anything when you can travel from server to server and are expected to do so. Having organizations is one thing, but it won't be the same dynamic it is in vanilla minecraft.

I agree with fr0st, a server could easily be fractured into several groups, and then what if one group captures a planet, but the admin is in another group? They might not get the research towards what they need.

Server like that would be doomed to fail with the consent inter server fighting, and the spilt on resources they would become weak, and easy prey for more united servers.
Besides that maybe a option that the admin has to group the players so the exp they get goes to there group.

The point is, people can't always be grouped into servers, as many people will just grab a ship and traverse the stars as nomads.

The grouping thing can still be applied to it, by if the admin what's a united server he make one big group and the exp is pooled, and if some one wants to be a nomad, then they won't be in the group, and there exp will go to them selfs