[Meltdown] Sunflower Corporation Rebalance

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Author: Enderluck

Last revision: 16 Apr at 18:48 UTC (2)

File size: 15.95 MB

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Description:

This is a rebalance from Sunflower Corporation mod and therefore requires that mod to work.

INCLUDES OVERCLOCK.

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I love that mod, but in my opinion it has somethings very unbalanced. The weapons deal a ridiculous amount of damage. Therefore, I decided to make a rebalance, and also modify a few other things to make it more interesting.

I made a lot of changes from the original mod. You can read the changes in the changelog. To sum it up:

• Add Overlock to everything.
• Add Build and Battle techs.
• Changed description of many things.
• Reduced damage of all weapons.
• Reduced price of all weapons.
• Added Electrobuff to all energy weapons.
• Reworked Arc Emitter. Now uses ChainLightning, has targeting, and Arc Transformers make it shoot faster instead of stronger.
• Reworked Ion Blaster and Heavy Ion Blaster. When the "missile" collides, it now bursts into a cone of rays that penetrates the ship causing damage, fire, and stunning crew. Can’t penetrate shields.
• Reworked Galvanic Armor. Now it uses a beam instead of bullets for better precision, attacks faster but with damage falloff over distance, and has preferred fire mod and targeting.
• Rebalanced Cluster Missile. More base health, damage, impulse, and radius. Lower cluster damage and impulse.
• Rebalanced Ion Diffusion Lattice. Lower cost and penetration resistance.
• Added a Spanish translation.

Some things were simply incredibly unbalanced. For example:

• Previously, Arc Emitter with 6 Arc Transformers dealt 8000 (damage per tick) x 12 (buff) x 12 (effect scaling) = 1152000 damage per tick, for 5 ticks each time it attacked. It could instantly disintegrate 5 components each time it attacked. Also, it instantaneously destroyed shields.
• Each Heavy Ion Blaster dealt 10000 damage and then spawned 10 rays (from left to center, cause it was aligned wrong) and each bursted in another 10000 explosive damage.

• When the overclocked Ion Bolt or Heavy Ion Bolt hits something, nothing happens. I tried adding the Hit rules, but it just crashes.
• Sometimes the Ion Bolt or Heavy Ion Bolt simply bounce back.
• I can’t remove Arc Transformer tech, it crashes.

• What do you think about balance? I think that Ion Blasters need to have reduced range. Compared to missile launcher, they are too cheap and convenient.
• What do you think about Ion Blasters requiring Laser Blaster technology? I think they are like an upgrade and so they need it, but it makes quite difficult to build a starter ship with them.
• What do you think about the overclock options/balance?
• Should I add passive heat generation to Arc Transformers (like Overclocked Deck Cannon)?
• Should the Overclocked Arc Emitter have a ramp-up time before attack (like Overclocked Railgun)?