[MOD] (Alpha 2) More Research!

Cj_mav · March 09, 2014, 04:29:51 PM

More Research!

Take ALL the research!

Background:
In my ever-so-expanding amount of games that i've played, after the research runs out, it gets "kinda" boorish. Just a little.

I have a scientist that I designate to be the researcher, and that's all he/she does. He/She wakes up, eats food, starts researching, eats more food (Conveniently stacked meals are a life saver

), sleeps, and repeats. Day in, Day Out. They can research anything, and by the time they get done with a majority of stuff, they can research at lightning speeds. After they finish, they become idle citizens...

Description:
This mod is simply to add another research track in case you run out of projects to accomplish. It is essentially, a filler. A thing that you can set a colonist to do to occupy their time. Pretty Easy.

It adds a track with 100,000 research points required. It's a lot of points to burn through, seeing as how most tracks only have around 4,000. If you finish the first one, it repeats, so on and so forth ...Simple.

Install:
Just Open the zip and drop into the Mods folder!

Credits:
Tynan, For making such a great game!

**There are 5 sequential tracks. If necessary, I can add more as you request.

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LegendaryMilkman · March 09, 2014, 04:32:01 PM

Wait, so this mod adds a research track that does nothing once you accomplish it? Seems a bit pointless as most people proficient in science can do other things from what I usually see.

Cj_mav · March 09, 2014, 04:34:17 PM

Yes, it adds a pointless track, but this is intended for late game stuff when you have a bunch of idle colonists that have nothing to do. Scientists get bored very easily...

LegendaryMilkman · March 09, 2014, 05:06:44 PM

Fair enough, nice simple mod.

StorymasterQ · March 09, 2014, 10:18:06 PM

Maybe if Tynan adds a some sort of scoring for the end game, this could be some sort of Civilization's Future Tech, nothing but bonus score.

Cj_mav · March 09, 2014, 11:33:20 PM

Yea, that'd be pretty cool. I'm down for more points

Freya 'Tail' Fairwing · March 10, 2014, 12:17:23 AM

I wonder if it would be feasible to add a repeatable research track that, when completed, gives the whole colony some sort of benefit, like, they shoot better, work harder and faster and sleep and eat less regularly without penalty, for a day or two. Would give some real reason to keep people as researchers and make the scientists more valuable when they crop up.

Cj_mav · March 10, 2014, 01:33:58 AM

I don't know what really is or isn't possible in this stage of the game. Right now, I don't think that it is, and I don't have any real modding expertise to try and find out. Gives me a good reason to learn, though

OnyxShadow · March 10, 2014, 04:41:43 PM

I like that this mod addresses a problem that currently exists, but I think there could be better possibilities.

Several current research tasks simply improve something by a certain percentage (10% less food for nutrient paste). Is that something which is difficult to do in a mod? Could we see further options after Nutrient Paste I (Nutrient Paste II, Nutrient Paste III, Nutrient Paste IV, etc. each for another 10%) and even for other things? Or is that sort of thing outside of the scope of what mods in this game can affect?

Cj_mav · March 10, 2014, 05:11:50 PM

Oh no, I'd presume it'd be quite possible to do that.

We would have to tweak the amount of nutrition all the raw foods and Nutrient Pastes give out. Right now, one raw Potato gives 5 Nutrition, and Nutrient Paste gives 80, so in order to make higher levels of nutrient paste, we'd have to link the Paste to a research and all of the latter versions to the Dispenser, and be able to render the lower levels of Paste obsolete after researching, otherwise it would just make the first level.

I'll look into that in a little bit. I'm swamped with School essays, labs, and projects atm, so it'd be inconvenient for my grades to do so now

Thanks for the Suggestion!

Oragepoilu · March 10, 2014, 08:05:19 PM

It's not intented for,
but because idle colonist make a lot of lag this could also give them at last something to do to avoid the freeze (and yet we would still able to see if people are iddle, because of the progression bar).

just thinking about low computer.

daimashu · March 23, 2014, 02:39:06 PM

i believe what onyx is talking about would be similar to what they did in the old master of orion games, once you had max researched one tree, there was an "advanced (tree)" research opened up. these researchs would take significantly longer than the end tree research, but would provide a stackable tho meager boost to that research fields upgrades (basically wouldnt become OP unless you spent months playing that save just to farm the advanced research lol, but was still useful in little ways)

iame6162013 · March 30, 2014, 02:50:29 PM

But why not train them to be a good shooter really.
But something to keep people buzy is fun

mrofa · March 30, 2014, 02:53:56 PM

Its a good option since dependable on colonist some can have voilence perk and other might be intellectual dump

Ribas · April 01, 2014, 02:50:34 PM

Quote from: OnyxShadow on March 10, 2014, 04:41:43 PM
I like that this mod addresses a problem that currently exists, but I think there could be better possibilities.

Several current research tasks simply improve something by a certain percentage (10% less food for nutrient paste). Is that something which is difficult to do in a mod? Could we see further options after Nutrient Paste I (Nutrient Paste II, Nutrient Paste III, Nutrient Paste IV, etc. each for another 10%) and even for other things? Or is that sort of thing outside of the scope of what mods in this game can affect?

This... why not create a research tree, instead of pointless researchs?