BotE for Android Balancer Mod

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BotE for Android Balancer Mod

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My first mod has a short term goal of addressing minor issues to enhance BotE for Android. It adds no graphics like ships or troops in the 1.0 edition.

1. But will address minor text edits to vastly reduce sabotage until way later in the game.
2. Will significantly raise trade routes to make some income and improve diplomatc relations with minor alien races.
3. Will add resource routes to facilitate new colony growth of infrastructure.
4. Will raise the deritium produced in refineries to foster larger fleets.
5. Probably will add a minor morale boost specific to minor alien membership.

In this way, BotE will be far easier for new players as they won't suffer implausible sabotage for possibly as late as turn #700, when such intelligence operatives and sleeper agents seem realistic.

Some levels of intelligence agencies will therefore happen later, and at that time, confer sufficient security points and then sabotage. So these buildings will only appear with significant research.

This largely normalizes the Khaoran empire. Now they will be a great race to play...as they should be.

It should largely normalize the Terran and Heyoun empires as they get no moral points for espionage or sabotage, and now will be unable to use this method until later. Then it will be employed as a legitimate form of asymmetric warfare and largely a defensive tactic.

Now conventional warfare will be based on actually generating sufficent starship vessels and mustering adequate defensive and offensive forces for ground invasions.

No version will use any copyrighted material in any way. It uses existing material or material that is user created or that has been permitted by the original artists.
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Re: BotE for Android Balancer Mod

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The goal is to have this in a beta stage by October 21 and close beta testing by November 21.

Then re-evaluate and do a release as a Christmas present to the BotE community. Possibly that would happen by December 21.

If successful and makes it players very thrilled, I would be glad and honored if such changes would be incorporated in a future patch to benefit all players.

My secondary goal is to do advanced save games with as many empires as I have time to create at say turn#400.

These would be on maximal galactic maps with 100% minor alien races. So extensive terraforming and colonization is necessary, as it should be prior to waging war. Then these act as military outposts to generate ships and troops.

This means better minor aliens and extensive infrastructure on your colonies as the focus is building from turn#1 to turn #400.

Then advanced save games would offer a "quick start turnkey empire". Thus you wouldn't have to build for 400 turns, but could start straight away.

The goal for 1.0 is to address simple fixable issues and create more realistic entertainment.
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Re: BotE for Android Balancer Mod

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1. Loading the mod will be simple for many who have true Android OS. The main changes will be in the building data. So you would just do a new install as a seperate program so you don't write over the standard BotE for Android.

Then just replace the buildings file.

2. An old Android tablet user can't "load from unknown sources". They would have to use a PC and side load the installation.

3. An old Android tablet user with a proprietary OS like a Kindle or Nook user, would have trouble loading as they lack a true Android OS so can't access the main apps directory. They could try sideloading it in another directory like "Downloads" and installing it there. Then it would be seperate from the standard BotE directory. Then replace the building file there.

4. If you lack a PC and only have an old Kindle tablet, there isn't a way yet. Then what would be required is making changes in an apk and loading it somewhere. Not going through GooglePlay...perhaps Amazon as there is no charge.

This is problematic for Nooks as they only can directly load through the GooglePlaystore app. That would require I get a developer license (which costs money) and permission to do so. Otherwise blotunga might upload it there. That would be ideal as 50,000+ downloads came from there. The mod balances the main issues which users have persistently commented upon. It would be seperate from the standard BotE for Android.

5 million Nook owners would be a huge untapped market.
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Re: BotE for Android Balancer Mod

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What I'm thinking is certain major race empires are easier and so would be on the easy level. Then the next most difficult species would be on the next difficulty level...and so forth.

The Cartare are very easy to win in the standard BotE on easy difficulty, but now...they cannot win so fast by employing sabotage. Now they must fight and stay alive until turn#700.

The Terrans with so many minor races populating the galaxy, and with their superior tech and diplomacy, should easily win.

The Omega being very balanced, should be able to win especially if the player understand how to manipulate resource inflation and deflation. They start with a starbase, so can scrap it for cash.

The Rotharians can't use sabotage for quite some time. The game may be harder for them.

The Heyoun may not be so prone to sabotage and if they hurry research, and understand resource inflation amd deflation, could easily get monopolies and win. They really need some minor alien race military technology. Then redesign their ships.
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Advanced turn#400 save games

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So based on that, I will try to create some advanced save games of many empires and so at some point, any empire can be tried within the mod.

Then have an advanced save game post and map. Then descibe the set up with pertinent data about standing in the game. Others could try it like a contest and do after action reports (AAR) of their successes and failures.
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Re: BotE for Android Balancer Mod

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Version 2.0 would try to accomplish much more ambitious goals.

1. Add technology up to Level 20 so that six areas of focus x six levels so 36 new techs.
Name suggestions will accelerate the realization of 2.0
2. Add 5 new ships x 6 empires so 30 ships.
3. Add 5 new troops x 6 empires so 30 troops.
4. Possibly 36 buildings with various advanced benefits like unusual buildings on certain classes of planets after terraforming.
5. Possibly rare minor alien race troops and 30 in number. They would only be recruited on their homesectors at advanced levels when members of a major race empire.

That would require at least one or two more mod teammembers
1. Maybe a graphic artists to reskin existing ships for 30 more in total.
2. Someone to reskin troops for 30 troops.
3. Someone to reskin 36 buildings.
4. 30 minor alien troops and these should be unique, but could be reskinned. I'm thinking of unusual ground attacks...unseen so far like using nanites or psionics or sonic weapons or genetic engineering.
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Re: BotE for Android Balancer Mod

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Version 3.0 would be a long term goal.

1. Create a series of random events that fire that largely have no effect in the game. What I want are one time event messages that tell a rich story of various major and minor races on homesectors and in colonial sectors.
2. The idea is to make the galaxy come alive and showing the vast differences in alien culture.
3. But also showing how some have very similar lives and motivations.
4. It's entirely up to the player to read or dismiss them. It will be like a novel.
5. Literally thousands of events may fire over the course of a thousand turns.
6. Regular events can fire and have music or images so these may happen. That requires musicians and artists on the mod team, thus the mod has heavy artistic needs and has to come after the first two revisions.
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Re: BotE for Android Balancer Mod

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1. Anyone who has previously done mod work, should send me a pm.

2. Anyone who has art they would like to see in a mod, should send me a pm.

3. Anyone who has music who would like to have it in a mod, should send me a pm.

4. Anyone just interested in getting a beta test, acting as a community liason, willing to spread the word on other forums, should send me a pm.

5. Now would be a good time to sign up for membership. There may be some task for a novice modder so they get their feet wet and add it to their resume for future mod teams.
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Re: BotE for Android Balancer Mod

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The goal is to minimize the need for new art, but use existing art to save time. Designing new ships and troops and buildings requires inspiration and this slows down the process and can add months .

I want quick practical responsible folks so we get 2.0 and later 3.0 in players' hands when it is ready to be played. It need not be perfect as we can address imperfection in a later revision.

Reskinning should be thematic and be reflective of the major alien ships, troops, and buildings.

For the minor alien races, see my signature. Those unique troops should adopt similar color standards and seem plausible based on that particular alien race.

Certain advanced ship technology will unlock these ships. Human beings can alway redesign, but the AI cannot. Thus these new ships reflect advanced armor, manueverability, speed,range, and weapons. Likely what would happen is advanced major alien races would have their intelligence operatives steal minor alien technology, right?

They would try to gain the best of the existing minor alien ships before actually conquering them.

Some major races would be incredibly dangerous and powerful with such lethal ships.
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Re: BotE for Android Balancer Mod

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Some of the new buildings would be wonder building projects.

In advanced turns, the minor alien members have all the benefits of inclusion in a wealthy, technologically advanced major alien empire. But they have lost their autonomy and self-determination. That "winter of their discontent" will lead to opposition groups on minor alien sectors who are members. It will lower morale.

Wonder buildings are ways to temprarily boost morale, but will ultimately fail based on turn length.

This means revolts happen late in the game, no matter what. Some like the Terrans may allow it as otherwise they take a big unrecoverable hit to morale on colonial worlds. Then have the moral quandry of attacking their former members. They can easily win, but may then have colonial sectors revolt in a cascade. You would have something like the American revolution happen or the formation of India and Pakistan.
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Re: BotE for Android Balancer Mod

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Intelligence operative or sleeper agents might then subvert these rebelling minor aliens and they may become independent, or worse join other major alien race's empires. It would be like Scotland having close ties to France and then causing an uproar in England.

This could touch off a galactic war. I'm counting on it. It will be a battle of titans as their tech will be so advanced with the latest ships and many diverse troops.
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Re: BotE for Android Balancer Mod

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Regardless, anyone can play the game however they want. These are just added features, and at any time, if these ideas or buildings, troops, ships, or technology are helpful to the standard BotE developer, they are welcome to use them in newer patches.

The goal is to facilitate a doubling or more of the user base.
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Re: BotE for Android Balancer Mod

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I want a manual for the Balancer mod...to explain concepts but not lead players by the nose. Some of it should be a mystery,but much should be easily to intuit.

The manual will thank anyone on the mod team who helped with project. Some may not actually do work, but help spread the word, answer questions, facilitate the acquision of art used, etc. If your gift is writing, I definitely want your help.

Thousands of vingettes sound like a lot of work, when actually they are 3 sentences or less. If 20 people write 50, there is the first thousand. They can just be about anything in the game including information from the translated German wiki. That alone probably gets 500 events.

The rare seldom seen cultural history can be in there. Hushed tones about advanced weapons by minor aliens. Gossip. Arguing crews. Forbidden romance. Scandals. Criminal activity. Plausible alien history. Organized crime on new colonies. Whatever.
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Re: BotE for Android Balancer Mod

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4.0 might change the diplomatic exchange in the string table. Maybe that would be a vehicle to communicate secrets? A bribed and bored diplomat being noticed by a comely intelligence operative, might feel appreciated and give away major plot details..
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Re: BotE for Android Balancer Mod

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If everything goes well, it seems logical to have the changes be available to Windows XP, Window Vista+, and Linux users.

So if you have those systems, since 1.0 is so lightly modded, we should be able to have it available to all players.

Let me know as I don't have a computer right now. Maybe it's easier for you to play and help create a protocol on a seperate install of BotE.

I want everyone to have it available for Christmas break.
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