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SmokeDragon 7 months ago (edited 5 months ago) by suggestion greed mode with eco values reduced by 1/4 and tech cost doubled +0 / -0
SmokeDragon 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) this greed rebalance is my 87th mod lol this mod also now correctly reduces: unit costs rearm costs build rates innate income +0 / -0
SmokeDragon 7 months ago fixed many bugs +0 / -0
SmokeDragon 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) with regret there is nolonger any interest in my mods.. i cant get people to play or test them.. so i have decided to end my development and move onto other things. if anyone wants to maintain, fix or revamp any of my 100? mods feel welcome. its been fun =D <3 +0 / -0
AveragePlan 7 months ago Why don't you try taking all the cool things you've learnt and make either a mod that combines the best things you've learnt into a big game mode, or a guide on this type of modding for others, or a summary of the most fun tweaks you've found. From what I've seen your mods often change one or two key features. They might make really cool examples for learning how to mod ZK actually. +1 / -0
SnuggleBass 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) I had fun playing this today. I like the feeling of making a lot of disposable units which isn't something I get to experience enough in team games of ZK because incomes are so small that games mostly come down to high weight attrition and porc. Sacrifices are rarely sustainable. Being able to tell my factory to "send units that way" while I focus on something else appeals to my inner zerg. I also liked the weighting of the economy making it a little less of a no-brainer. I'm not sure how I feel about having 10khp shields everywhere for cheap though. I feel it worked better on more spacious maps and in teams. In FFA, you basically ended up with people rushing tiers behind porc - which is a play pattern that bypasses the tiering mechanic that you introduce and IMO isn't very fun. I also think having the second tier of tech locked behind athena is a bit awkward. I can't remember if it was you or someone else, but they were losing their 10k unit (and advanced tech) to mismanagement sending it to the front line, which isn't something I think should be possible for a tech milestone. +1 / -0
SmokeDragon 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) thanks for the feedback! =) thanks for the advice. i havent updated my mode hub in a long time.. ill try to update my mode hub with better tutorials some time. i have done my best to help and inspire modders. its not that hard to make a better mod then many of my wierd old and broken mods. =P ... yeah in ffa it is much eaiser to tech and porc but people do still do rushes.. a player yesterday did no tech at all and just rushed mass revinant.. like 500 revs.. and won quite easily.. normaly it can be stopped with something like equal cost in toads but the acid sea stopped that being possible on that map. yes athena loss is a big risk.. sadly im not sure what to do with that other then to buff its health? its already cloaked and can fly. using it to rez on the frontline is so powerful.. and if it can tank hits you could drop a ulti or djinn off in enemy bases on some maps.. quite the puzzle on a good solution ??? i agree it did work better on spacious maps in teams.. before it used to be too laggy on big maps but i reworked it so that now its semi playable.. its still a bit demanding on your pc.. but now atleast the tech buffs can replace the spam with strong units like scorpion and dante wich help reduce spam lag. in a few days ill make a post with a short list of maybe 10 of my best mods that people liked and have no bugs.. then ill just maintain and perfect them with feedback help. and host a room once a week or something. +1 / -0
PLT_skigear 7 months ago i thought the ww1 mod was fun, but could use some edits and more stuff to make - agree with snuggle that the whole "send unit production at each other" in zk format was interesting :D +1 / -0
GoogleFrog 7 months ago SmokeDragon if you want more interest in your mods, I'd suggest putting more intent in them. Intent in the sense of advertising what the mod is meant to do, how is it supposed to make players feel? What is the goal? The mods come across more as demonstrations of tech rather than as something designed for people to play. This might be as much as fleshing out the descriptions to say what sort of gameplay the game is meant to create, rather than just a short list of changes. +4 / -0
SmokeDragon 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) i think mostly i just made them to learn how to do it.. but now that a few stand out as semi playable.. i figured atleast 1 or two out of 100 is not too bad =P i could now pollish them and add better descriptions. my aim was to make each mod feel as different from zk as possible while also having zero-k flavours.. as i did not want to improve on perfection.. but add variety as casual modes like chickens are. how do i delete mods? so i can clean up the modes section a bit ill work on better descriptions and polish them then advertisement campaign and t-shirts later XD but i has just got space age factorio so time is tight right now +1 / -0
Shaman 7 months ago My (unsolicited) advice: 1. Figure out what you want to do with the game. How to make it more enjoyable for you. What kind of experience you think you want to have. 2. Stick with up to a handful of mods. Like 2-3 at most. 3. Put more effort into advertising. Currently, you have over 100 (!) miniature mods as you claim. You've oversaturated yourself and sliced the potential playerbase you could have 100 ways. Having players play your mod means more players are likely to play your mod, and having said players have to pick between 100 mini mods that do one or two things is kind of crazy. Instead you should focus effort on one.. maybe two mods that add content to the game and stick with them. +4 / -0
SmokeDragon 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) thanks for your advice shaman your a pro modder =) and your work inspired me.. i would very much like to delete my older mods ill see if i can discover how edit: i cannot seem to delete them.. oh dear.. i will update all supported mods descriptions and rename unsupported ones to "old" moving focus now from concept development into bug fixing and fleshing out +1 / -0
Cliver5 7 months ago I am literally THE advertiser. The judgement for saying these words will humble me. But. If anyone has complaints about poor advertisement. of SmokeDragon's mods. Complain to my name. And I. Will struggle. Like no other. To reveal the best in every work. +0 / -0
SmokeDragon 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) i will be working on improving quality over quantity from now on. starting with throwing away the shackles of defs tweaks.. and entering the realm of true modding with file downloads so i can edit scripts. +0 / -0
SmokeDragon 7 months ago rolled back tech nerf so it takes 2x longer and not 4x longer reduced pal and detri regen.. they already op and dont need to annhialate tech 2 with impunity +0 / -0
SmokeDragon 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) fixed many bugs made emp tacnukes blocked by shields since they are huge and can only be deflected by funnelwebs made merlin emp less crazy and impacts shields correctly ulti range buffed and disarm bypasses all shields +1 / -0
SmokeDragon 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) after a few good games i tweaked the balance a bit raised min metal required for wrecks to exist from 400->500 .. ... less lag late game and less punishment for feeding raised super weapon costs +50% zenith, disco, starlight... ... they are op when you have 20 of them.. atleast now you could have 120 detriments instead for same price fixed artimus targeting ai vs cheap targets... ... no more idle artimus vs swarms -50% ultimatum health... ... its still op but atleast now it dies if you can screen it... made singu decloak radius bigger then hitbox... ... no more invisible enemy singu in middle of own army -75% nebula health... ... they are a mobile superweapon on par with a nuke that has a super strong shield.. so they now have a weakness +0 / -0
SmokeDragon 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) i had some requests for the changes that greed mode makes: here is an ai generated full list: [Spoiler] 🔧 Unit Balance Changes General Units Static Antinuke: Metal cost set to 6000. Cloakbomb: Speed increased to 189. Turret Impulse: Health increased to 3000. Heavy Turret: Health increased to 20000. Sub Tactical Missile: Metal cost reduced to 125. Stockpile cost set to 0. Drone Fighter: Health set to 800. auto-heal set to 200. Laser weapon damage increased to 330. Ship Carrier Now cloaked by default with zero cloak cost (even when moving). Minimum decloak distance: 60. DISARM_ROCKET weapon damage increased to 30,000. Stockpile cost set to 0. Nebula Now has manual fire capability. Health increased to 10,000. Metal cost increased to 25,000. New weapon: Obliteration Blaster (AoE 800, 2400 damage, burst 16). Secondary weapon: Cannon (400 damage). Shield: 36,000 power, 1,000 regen, 450 radius. ☢️ Superweapon & Experimental Units Tactical Nuke AoE increased to 768. Light radius set to 1600. Napalm Missile AoE: 3048. Area damage radius: 2024. Slow Missile Area damage radius: 2280. Light radius: 3200. EMP Missile AoE: 560. Light radius: 1800. Shield interception type: 3. Seismic Weapon AoE: 2560. Improved smoothing and detachment parameters. ⚔️ Striders & Heavies Strider Artillery Health increased to 6280. Autoheal set to 60. ROCKET damage set to 440. Vortex EMP weapon added (AoE 120, 80k damage, 20s paralyze, range 2800). Strider Scorpion Health: 26,000. Autoheal: 180. On death: Large AoE EMP (1000 AoE, 3500 damage, 20s paralyze). Reload time for MULTILIGHTNING set to 10. Strider Detriment Health: 172,000. Autoheal: 160. Jump reload: 20. Obliteration Blaster: AoE 424, reload 10s. Strider Bantha Health: 64,000. Autoheal: 80. EMP missile reload time: 10. Strider Anti-Heavy Health: 2,000. Autoheal: 100. Now has jump ability (range 400, 4s cooldown). Added Disintegrator (4000 damage, 1s reload) and Green Stamper disarm AoE weapon. 🛡️ Shields Shield Shield / Static Shield / Zenith Shield / Strider Hub Shield: Power: 10,000. Regen: varies (e.g. 50, 1000, 4000). All are unlinked Radius: 400–1600 depending on unit. 🛠️ Build Options Athena: Metal cost: 5000. Health: 4000. Worker time: 50, resurrect speed: 100. Expanded build list including striders, cloak units, nukes, and high-tier energy. 🏗️ Factory, Plate, and Storage Changes All factories and plates now have: Energy storage: 8000. Metal storage: 8000. Static Storage also updated with same values. 🔋 Energy Structures Wind Generator: Metal cost: 300. Health reduced to 1. Solar: Metal cost: 350. Health: 8000. Energy output: 5. Fusion: Energy output: 112. Metal cost: 5000. Singularity Reactor: Metal cost: 20,000. Energy output: 612. Now cloaked by default. Geo & Heavy Geo: Cloaked by default. Energy: 87 (geo) / 300 (heavy geo). Metal cost: 2500 / 7500. 🔫 Turrets & Defenses Anti-Air Turrets (Close, Far, Heavy, Flak): Added fire, slow, cloak and AoE effects to aa. Turret Anti-Heavy: Health: 12,000. EMP stun weapon added (paralyze time 30s). Turret Gauss: Health: 6000. Cloaked by default. Static Artillery: Standard: 3700 range, increased gravity. Heavy: 12,000 range, 4002 damage. Heavy Radar: Cost: 200. Now provides area cloak (2000 radius). Turret Riot: Heat per shot: 0.01. 🏭 Miscellaneous Zenith: Cost set to 15,000. Now includes a built-in shield. Raveparty: Cost set to 30,000. Mahlazer: Cost set to 45,000. Main weapon: 1600 damage per shot, 36,000 cumulative damage noted. +0 / -0
SmokeDragon 5 months ago doubled tech costs to see if this helps motivate fighting over tech rush +0 / -0
SmokeDragon 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) fixed shield bugs preventing many things from impacting correctly fixed merlin dgun fixed description so now players know how to tech made shields partial penetration +0 / -0

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