Quote from: Raidau on May 01, 2014, 10:58:44 am Regarding armor.

It consists of two spreadsheets: one (Normal) is with the armours as they are now, the other (Proposed) contains new values I came up with. Naturally, all new armours (psionic armour or its equivalent, as well as the 'terminator') would require new sprites, which is a pain, but maybe we can steal and alter some of Dioxine's designs. But since we already have 3 early armours and 3 medium armours, why not make 3 armours here too? I dream of a Terminator Armour - an Elerium-powered, ultra-heavy monster with some big-ass weapons that normal suits can't even lift.ДЄnything else? Well, I'm loosely thinking about a separate branch of armours caused 'synthmuscle armours', which don't offer as good protection as normal armours (thinner, lighter plating), but give some good stat bonuses (because you have some excessive strength left). We have the Power Suit and the Flying Suit, which I don't really want to modify for the same reasons. Or we can just scrap that idea and make a 'Carapace Armour' - a heavy armour made of Alien Alloys, with some penalties but better protection than the Personal Armour (something like a better Dragonskin).ДЇinally, the best armours. I don't want it to simply be a Personal Armour with better Psi Strength, because that's kinda dull, and also why not a Psionic Armour based on a Power Suit or a Dragonskin as well? I would like to see something more imaginative, but I haven't found anything yet. well, I don't really know what to do with. Then there's my Jump Armour, which is generally a Personal Armour with smaller armour values, so there's not much to talk about either.ДЄnd finally there's the Psionic Armour which. We have the Personal Armour and let's not change it if we don't have to. Then we have the second tier of armours: Alien Alloys. I suggest giving them reasonably low prices. They would be much more useful if we fought enemies with human weapons (because again, that's what they were made for), but they still offer some marginally better protection than the uniform for the cost of mobility and reactions. Still, this is the best the 1999 technology can realistically offer. Yes, I know these armours aren't so good. Similar profile, Melee damage bonus since it's metal (it won't do anything against Reapers anyway ), bigger Stamina penalty, weight 12. Also -5 to TUs, Stamina and Reactions (that last one because of the helmet). Also none of the damage reduction % nonsense, except for armour piercing attacks, because that's what they were made to do. Vanilla items should stay as they were, because the game was balanced with them in mind.Д¬ombat armour: armour values 28/12/16/12 it is the most generous we can give without becoming unrealistic, based on what these armours can do in real life. I talked with Dioxine, and here's what we decided: Yeah, I'm not a big fan of Earth armours - plasmas mostly ignore them anyway but apparently you want them and people certainly like having tactical options, so I did my best to make them usable and balanced. These gave me a headache, since they should be either useless or overpowered. I focused on what to do with the armours we have.ДЇirst, we have the beginning armours: Uniform, Combat and Dragonskin in other words, light, medium and heavy. I haven't coded anything yet, and honestly I think it would be best to leave it to you, Human Ktulu, since you already started doing this. So, I started working on the armour concepts. Quote from: Solarius Scorch on April 30, 2014, 03:45:01 am Sorry about double-posting, but this would be confusing otherwise. Power / Flying Suits : Now this armor give bonuses to stamina and combat melee. (need sprites, I see somewhere a modified personnal armour with new helmet like knight of the zodiac :p ) Unfortunately this feature is not compatible with Power Suit and Flying Suit.

After research of Psi-Lab, you can gine some protections to psi attack. Psionic Armor : Improvement of Personnal Armor. Weaker than Personnal Armor but give an unquestionable advantage.

Jump Armor : After some research you can manufacture it. Dragonskin (desert version) : This heavy protection is used for defusing bombs. Kevlar (urban version) : Standard protection of army and police operations. Simple vestment give more mobility and accuracy. All new recruits use standard green army uniform. Basic Uniform (woodland version) : New entry in Ovnipedia. I would give some protection in game beginning and improving diversity in personnal armor using. I used 'Combat Uniforms Armor' and 'Jump Armor'.

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