[script] Improved Kha'ak 2: The Revenge [Updated: 2013.05.17]

[-XeNoN-]

Ok cool mate, ive tested in game and invasions/swarms appear very often where can i customize this (timescale between invasions/swarms)? Also i didnt noticed i get any money for killing them.

Ps: Got MAJOR invasion in the Family Zyarth... 4 Dystroyers, 2 Carriers and tons of M7's and Eggs, barely get out alive but Xenon I rocks (freakin love that ship ) XD

Also i have TC plots in AP and seems it works well! Btw is it smart to eneble swarms in Khaak Border/Core sectors? Im asking because i love to kill them.

And final question:
In Family Zyarth after last incursion there are no more stations , will stations will be respawned or?

[SirDeathwalker]

I was looking over the customization and realized you are a genius... an evil genius

this can be made to simulate almost ANY group as an "out of control" rebel or outlaw element, just sowing chaos and destruction is a seemingly indiscriminate manner (kinda like your average terrorist org (if you like to simulate that sort of thing)).... where you can tone it down to nuisance level or crank it up to necromonger/scorched earth level. (set the swarm to a large number of minimum large, and a lot of medium)

-just by switching out the ships available....

methinks my universe is going to get very interesting in the chinese sense of the word...

[7ate9tin11s]

Ok cool mate, ive tested in game and invasions/swarms appear very often where can i customize this (timescale between invasions/swarms)?

To customize time, open the menu, select 'Swarms...' and change the rebuild time. Alternatively, reduce the number of swarms in the universe to 1 or 2 and keep the same timing.

Also i didnt noticed i get any money for killing them.

If you have the police license for the sector you should receive the normal payouts. It also works wonderfully with the bounty system for XRM and, I think, the bounty boost plugin also works (I use it, but do not have logging turned on...I like anonymous money pouring into my accounts! )

Ps: Got MAJOR invasion in the Family Zyarth... 4 Dystroyers, 2 Carriers and tons of M7's and Eggs, barely get out alive but Xenon I rocks (freakin love that ship ) XD

Pre-released beta allowed for up to 15 m1/2 ships in a swarm...are you suggesting I should not have toned it down?

If you want it to be harder the same swarm menu mentioned above will let you adjust the swarm composition to anything you want. Please let me know what you find to be good values and what you would call your personal difficulty level. I may include it when I add difficulty presets (it is currently at 7ate9tin11s easy mode... )

Also i have TC plots in AP and seems it works well! Btw is it smart to eneble swarms in Khaak Border/Core sectors? Im asking because i love to kill them.

Ah, this beings up a point most will not have noticed. The sector blacklist starts pre-populated with any sector that contains an invincible object. There is also a greylist that holds recently attacked sectors and any unknown sectors without player assets in them. The graylist is occasionally checked and sectors are removed if they become valid. I wanted the action on populated sectors.

In Family Zyarth after last incursion there are no more stations , will stations will be respawned or?

Yes, unless you have killed god, the sector will automatically rebuild. It usually takes 3-24 hours depending on how god feels though.

I was looking over the customization and realized you are a genius... an evil genius

this can be made to simulate almost ANY group as an "out of control" rebel or outlaw element, just sowing chaos and destruction is a seemingly indiscriminate manner (kinda like your average terrorist org (if you like to simulate that sort of thing)).... where you can tone it down to nuisance level or crank it up to necromonger/scorched earth level. (set the swarm to a large number of minimum large, and a lot of medium)

-just by switching out the ships available....

methinks my universe is going to get very interesting in the chinese sense of the word...

Why thank you. Technically I could put in a little menu option to spawn a new IK instance, then select a race/enemy and it would be complete. Perhaps one day if I get ambitious

[7ate9tin11s]

Oh yeah:

Version r2
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Or visit the download page directly.

New Stuff

• Hatchery Sector - A queen and her brood sleep here, ever waiting, ever dreaming. Do you dare wake her?
  WARNING: This is a near impossible battle, save first!

• Queens Vengeance - So you actually killed her? Impressive. Can you survive the 30 minutes of focused swarm attacks that can optionally follow?

I may have to tone down the boss battle a bit more, it is rather harsh. It harkens back to the original Insanity mode that could take the universe in an hour...but all wrapped up in a single sector.

The technical details of the 'boss' fight are as follows:
-The sector has 99 eggs in it that are arranged in a diamond shape around the sleeping queen. They are randomized, but should end up around 50% small, 25% medium, and 25% large.
-There is only one queen and whatever Kha'ak the game engine have spawned there (usually a cluster or 3)
-Any non-player enemy of the Kha'ak is instantly destroyed to make it a 'fair' fight
-The queen is invincible to missiles until she awakens by having a ship get close enough.
-The queen drains energy cells and energy from your vessels. The more vessels in the sector the faster the queens shields increase.
-At the start of battle and every ten minutes or so the queen will summon a swarm to assist. Yes, you can adjust options for weak swarms to make the fight easier...coward
-The queen only uses p2p jumping and does not ever use the engine on her ship. She also does not jump to your ships to get killed, the chase is on!
-The queen will use a small 5-15 missile flurry occasionally. These target missiles aiming at her before going for ships.

Let me know how you beat her and what you think should be done to make her more powerful or balanced.

-7ate9tin11s

[-XeNoN-]

789@ Wow you put an effort into this , btw do you know smth about ship modelling? =)

[7ate9tin11s]

do you know smth about ship modelling? =)

Not really. Science, philosophy, artificial intelligence, 3d engine design, computer security, yes.

...3d art...well, I prefer to not have have people tearing out their eyeballs from sheer horror

[SirDeathwalker]

Wow... cant wait to download (finally got the custom ships to spawn properly, and they are able to set up as the swarm...) 30 minutes....

hmmmmm...

yeah.... that would definitely require upgrading my usual defenses by several orders of magnitude.... (and then maybe doubling that..)

.....

on a side note (and the reason i logged on) was the thought I had..

how about the wild ones have a percentage chance per hour that they live after hatching, to "evolve" to the next larger class? (up to large of course)

and has anyone managed to make the Deathstar and that superlaser??... I think we may need it for the queen lol



nice surprise and you work fast...

[SirDeathwalker]

...3d art...well, I prefer to not have have people tearing out their eyeballs from sheer horror

now i am intrigued .... are we talking salvidor dali in 3d or we talking gore horror, or is it just so confusing to the eye? enquireing minds and all...

[-XeNoN-]

do you know smth about ship modelling? =)

Not really. Science, philosophy, artificial intelligence, 3d engine design, computer security, yes.

...3d art...well, I prefer to not have have people tearing out their eyeballs from sheer horror

[7ate9tin11s]

Been playing a more economic-based game and will be making the following adjustments for r3 (Probably early next week). They will not take effect in prior r1/r2 starts so I suggest making them manually through the options for a more rounded experience

1. Shift M3 class fighters to small group from medium. There are two reasons to do this; First, it makes existing swarms slightly harder; Secondly, the cost of using an M3 to generate eggs (with the small potential of getting a m1/2/7 egg since they are a medium and large potential of an M6/8 egg) was basically free money and ships. Swarms will need to be adjusted as well.

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Ships > Small > Add Fighter
Ships > Small > Add Advanced Fighter (XRM Only)
Ships > Medium > Remove Fighter
Ships > Medium > Remove Advanced Fighter (XRM Only)
Swarms > Mediums > Half both min and max values

2. Reducing swarm count. Currently the economic devastation is a bit too high from the swarms and I suggest reducing the number of swarms in the universe from the r1/2 default of 1 per 30 sectors to 1 per 45 or 1 per 60 sectors (So 75% or 50% of the current value, i.e. 8=4 to 6)

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Swarms > Number of Swarms > Set to reduced value

3. Reducing the number of eggs/wilds for performance reasons.

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Eggs > Small > Set to 125
Eggs > Medium > Set to 75
Eggs > Large > Set to 25
Wilds > Set to 150

Other changes which will be made and take instant effect in r3, but cannot be done through the options include:
1. M5's will not be able to generate eggs. This will lessen the egg spam in sectors and prevent the same M3 issue for small/medium eggs.
2. Player Egg generation costs will increase by roughly 50% of hull consumed
3. Eggs cannot generate eggs
4. Egg naming for players will go from 'Small Player Egg' to 'Your Small Egg'
5. Player-owned eggs and hatched vessels will not begin undamaged with all weapon slots filled. They will have from 50-90% hull and have a 50% chance, per slot, of an empty weapon slot

Plus whatever else I fix/change/add

[-XeNoN-]

789@
Do you ever sleep? hehe

Btw about the reward for killing Queen and normal swarms/invasions

Small Swarm Reward money:

5000 cr per Incubus
10000 cr per Scout
15000 cr Per Interceptor
35000 cr Per Fighter
150000 cr Per Corvette
500000 cr per Rakshasa
1 mil cr per Carrier
1.5 mil cr per Destroyer

Eggs:

Small Egg 50 000 cr
Medium Egg 100 000 cr
Large Egg 150 000 cr

Queen hachery sector:

Same amount of given cr's but x2 for Carrier/destroyer/rakshasa and 5 mil for Queen

So total money will be around 20 kk or smth like that.

[DrBullwinkle]

The download link for r2 appears to be missing from the x1tp.com page. And the "alternative download" link appears to be another spam-collection site (that requires registration).

What does "Player Hatred" do? How does this compare to the vanilla Kha'ak in TC?

[SirDeathwalker]

Player hatred ramps up the chance the swarm targets you or yours.



crank it up and they will seem to be everywhere you go... when they come, they come for you!

MUAAHHAHAHAHA

[7ate9tin11s]

The download link for r2 appears to be missing from the x1tp.com page.

Interesting, the link is only there while I am logged in. Looks like a shadow ban. Perhaps they do not like having multiple versions of the same script up on the site.

Now to find somewhere else to host files.

[DrBullwinkle]

I would be surprised if there is any problem with multiple versions. Send a note to SS_T. He is pretty good about support for his site.

I use the Google Code site that I gave you the link for (in the same post as the link for x1tp). You can use the public login in the instructions that I linked, or get your own login from LV.

So... what does "Player hatred" do? How does it vary from vanilla Kha'ak behavior in TC? And what are the Kha'aks doing if not hating the player (98% of the time)?

[7ate9tin11s]

So... what does "Player hatred" do? How does it vary from vanilla TC behavior? And what are the Kha'aks doing if not hating the player (98% of the time)?

At a technical level, player hatred is a dice roll from 0 to 99 that is thrown every time a swarm is choosing which sector to attack. If it falls below the specified player hatred value the swarm will attempt to target a sector that has a player asset within it (Station or movable ship)...basically they will put the hate on the player

Oh, and I would use the common login for the google code site, but someone went and put verification on it. What is the phone number or city?

[DrBullwinkle]

Curses! Foiled again!

It would not surprise me if Google did that because they noticed people using the same login from all around the world *sigh*. You could PM LV and ask... but it would be just as easy to ask him to add your own Google account to the site.

In the meantime, you could email it to me and I can post it for you, as a temporary work-around while you are waiting for responses from SS_T and LV.

And thanks for the explanation about player hatred... it makes sense now.

[7ate9tin11s]

In the meantime, you could email it to me and I can post it for you, as a temporary work-around while you are waiting for responses from SS_T and LV.

Emailed, please let me know when it is up.

/Will look later tonight
//For now the Teladi must pay!
///PAY for making slow irritating ships!

[SirDeathwalker]

Well... the custom ship option does work wonderfully....

popped in to a sector as the swarm attacked and there were the custom ships tearing up the sector. (I counted at least 7 Large) and the ships were custom ships added through the plugin manager....

With the custom ships being way more powerful than the average Kha'ak...
(Jorkin's 3 B5 shadow vessels, worked wonderfully.... )

I upped the med to 10-25 (the m3 has 7x25 MJ shields), and the large up to 2-9 (only 2x2GJ shields, but very potent weapon configs) anf the scout (m5 has 8x5MJ shields and 4 ISRG) min up to 10...

I did reduce the number of swarms to 5 and the number of wild to 120 or so per your update/advice earlier in the post.

The potential for a 1 swarm customized swarm as a addon or possibly a multiple instance of the script (maybe to simulate multiple fringe elements)
maby make a capture behavior (where the swarm captures up to half the ships n sector and takes the people off the stations causing an across the board drop in relations, just enough survivors were left to spread the tales.. maybe they were captured for slaves, maybe for food, depending on the nature of the "enemy" in your story)

[7ate9tin11s]

*looking through personal script repository*

Hmmm...tracker mines that actually track and kill...

Sounds like an option for those small eggs in r3

/wanders off to work...