Alpha Centauri 2

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri & Alien Crossfire => Modding => Topic started by: Dio on March 09, 2014, 07:40:55 PM

Title: Potential changes to Photon/Wave Mechanics
Post by: Dio on March 09, 2014, 07:40:55 PM

The current technology shortname for Photon/Wave Mechanics is DocSec. What do you think DocSec means? Barring the standard outline for doctrine techs, what do you think the technology image should look like? What are your thoughts/opinion on this?

Title: Re: Potential changes to Photon/Wave Mechanics
Post by: Buster's Uncle on March 09, 2014, 07:52:43 PM

Doctrine: Sexy Pictures.

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Title: Re: Potential changes to Photon/Wave Mechanics
Post by: Yitzi on March 10, 2014, 03:23:04 AM

My guess is that they were originally going to have Doctrine: Security, and then decided to scrap it and replace it with Photon/Wave Mechanics, but didn't bother to change the key because it has no in-game effect.

Title: Re: Potential changes to Photon/Wave Mechanics
Post by: Nexii on March 11, 2014, 05:06:33 PM

My first thought was Doctrine: Security also.  Though that doesn't fit the corresponding armor class "Photon Armor".  The thing is all the Doctrine: XX techs lead to new chassis other than Doctrine: Loyalty.  And that one gives a defensive structure (Perim Defense).  It's my guess that originally Doctrine: Security was linked to Tachyon field (or it's predecessor) which later got moved to the next tech (Probability Mechanics).

Some of them are rather interesting: HAL9000 and BFG9000 for example