Ben's Mod

BenK

This is the mod I have created and played with.
It has four tech levels 3,5,7,10.
There are no requirements except credits for the levels.

Below is the latest version for (Cosmoteer version 0.15.16)
CosmoteerBen 1.6.7.5
-- Description -- 1.6.7.5 Maintenance update

update Bounty to be 0.15.16 compatible

This is not a small mod.
The power creep is real in this mod.
But my parts are mostly balanced (if you want awesome laser turret your going to pay for it).

Things in this mod

Issue - my Roof Omni Emmiters have a known issue
The primary problem is that on a super large rail gun (rail bonus over 9000) too many particles spawn and
depending on your computer and how big the bonus is causes your computer to slow to a crawl or crash.

There are two known causes .

Recursive, this is basically where the railgun is set up in a way that the same section is counted more than once. note that this is stable in that the bonus never changes so long as the rail is not changed.
Loop, this is when the rail is set up in a loop configuration (where part of the rail can make a circle) while it takes tinkering it is possible to get stupidly large rail bonuses this way. note this is not stable and tends to reset to its default when the game does something to check the ship.

I am not currently planning on doing something about this since its basically an exploit that you use at your own risk and the current cures I can come up with cause usability issues as well as me lots of work. As usual further questions or comments you can post to me and I will try my best to answer.

bounty ships in all levels
modified bounty (don't wander into a class 7 system all fat and happy)
or you will be eaten by a cube (I have been told repeatedly it should be called a square)

I have moved the download to the top of this post so no scrolling down is required.

Stormi_chan

BenK what is the chance you will show us how the parts look like? 😄

dafeeeeeeeeeesh

BenK
I like it so far but you probably should do some nerfing and buffing, because the parts aren't really close in power some times and are mostly extremely op.

Super_Mapper

BenK

🤔

ill look into this mod tomorrow

laughs in 12 PM and still not sleeping

Sirbottington88

BenK is there links to older versions of this mod? more specifically 0.15.11?

Ultranova

BenK It's come to my attention that you have four of my ships in your mod that you added without telling me. The four ships in question are 'Ds__Fast Attack A', 'Fr__GLE Heavy Escort', 'Hc__Rebel A' and 'Hf__Rebel Missile A'. Could you remove these ships from your mod ASAP, thanks.

I do realise these were once a part of a public mod, but they were still my ships and were only intended to be a part of that mod and that mod alone.

Wilhelmthegreat33

BenK

Umm will there be a feature where you can turn off shields

Lafiel

Good Job putting the bests of bests together and organizing it all. 👍️

Altraxia

This is the successor of the Parts Galore mod

CaptainRedstone

Nice job! Looks like it it's incompatible with Kroom's forge though
Also it would be nice if you changed the order which you added the new part categories, so it's in proper order

BenK

CaptainRedstone

Now should be compatible with Kroom's forge.
Also the tabs are in order (I have been meaning to do that for awhile)
Yes it was a lot of work.

dafeeeeeeeeeesh

BenK
Alright for example the nukes and missiles don't really get more powerful as they level up, not really dealing more damage vs a armored target.

BenK

Stormi_chan
Currently no because I am lazy.
Long-term probably because I have already noticed the trend in myself to avoid mods that don't give you some clue (pictures) of what you are getting.

BenK

Stormi_chan
Pictures of parts now live...

BenK

dafeeeeeeeeeesh
Do you have specific nerfing/ buffing requests?
as for overpowered the original intent was to extend gameplay. So far it has met with mixed success.

Relcore

btw it's BenK strongest and most expensive vessel.

Relcore

dafeeeeeeeeeesh well what i made is OP
because it did that on it's first half-volley. (it has something to with rail-guns and junctions)

dafeeeeeeeeeesh

Relcore
sure yeah but it doesint match up with the same level of missile, so its unbalanced to itself.

Relcore

here is its cause.
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AnCJng-yvRQCuikvp_a8fUxL7HMJ
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AnCJng-yvRQCuiqs6fhPQueHxw4F

BenK

Relcore
Hello Relcore.
I am currently considering my options. (congrats for finding the railgun recursion issue)
My problem is that as far as I am aware I can't check to see if someone has setup there railgun recursively.

I have thought of a number of options none of them good.
Option 1 remove the junction which probably would be a balance plus but I enjoy having multiple emitters on one rail.

Option 2 make it harder to exploit by filtering the parts that can hookup to a junction note that this makes things more difficult from a usability standpoint and doesn't fix the underlying problem.

Option 3 I "may" be able to cap the damage but that only induces many smaller rails and punishes anyone who hits cap with out using the exploit.

So if someone can find a better implemental option I would be delighted but currently I am going to log it as a "if you want to abuse the rules and win go for it"

As for the Nukes It is now under consideration.

BenK

Relcore

Update on Nukes.
Explosive damage seems to have diminishing returns as you increase its value for instance my nuke should be doing around 1.2M damage. Class 10 armor has .4M hp so using basic math a nuke should be destroying three blocks of armor but the reality is that it doesn't even destroy one block.

During testing I had it all the way up to 30M and it was destroying a single piece.

At this point I am using area damage as a workaround and am past the testing phase and am now trying to decide if what I have is "balanced".

KaeligRoperhe

there is a bug with the mods which increases the credits of the bounty hunter

BenK

KaeligRoperhe

Hello KaeligRoperhe

Would you go into more details.
Like is it my mod, is it difficulty level specific, is it an obvious bug like you are getting waaaaay too much money.

I need more information.

KaeligRoperhe

Hello, in the vanilla game, there is a mod called "Bounty hunter 1000000000000000", and your mod prevents it from working.

CaptainRedstone

KaeligRoperhe This is because ben's mod alters the vanilla starting credits, just like Bounty Hunter 1,000,000,000. Don't think there's anything he can easily do to fix the incompatibility. As a temporary solution you can go to Documents\My Games\Cosmoteer\Mods\CosmoteerBen 1_6\Bounty\Ben_Bounty_Difficulty.txt and replace all instances of StartingMoney = 150000 with StartingMoney = 1000000000. Note that you'll have to change it back if you want to undo it

KaeligRoperhe

CaptainRedstone Thank, I will change that

BenK

CaptainRedstone

Thanks CaptainRedstone you helped both of us out.

You drastically shortened the time it took me to remember what was going on with the bounty system.

BenK

KaeligRoperhe

Hello Kaelig

Captain Redstone is correct I would have to remove my entire bounty platform to have mod compatibility with "Bounty hunter 1000000000000000".