Which to use |
Got a question for everyone. Planning on hitting the game again after awhile and wanted to know which mod to use. I like long strategic games with lots of systems and lots of opponents (single player). Which one is recommended Capn' Kwoks Balance mod with FQM 9 or IRM with FQM 8? Factors that are important to me are: AI to be challanging, and combat to be as indepth as possible. Ok, simple question. Oh, and what level of advantage do you recommend I give to the AI? Thanks gang!
Kyle
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Note that the Balance Mod also uses version beta 8 of FQM. Neither mod will be updating to include beta 9, due to the increased file size. You can rather easily patch either mod to use the latest FQM version, though.
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I hope there will be a good explanation released on how to do that. Also, how will that work with PBW?
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Well heres my two cents:
If you want a harder game, but want to keep closer to stock... Choose balance mod.
If you want to completly learn a new tech tree...IRM.
But The rewards of IRM are definatly the AI prowess. (Well kind of).
Both are good:
Just choose if you want to keep playing a stock-like, or want to learn a new style of play 
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Speaking of the tech tree in IRM... can anyone tell me where I can find it???
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There are two tech trees available so far:
http://interrelatedmod.wikispaces.com/Technology
The first is complete but is just a spreadsheet.
The second is incomplete but is fully graphical.
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well if you want to fight the ai go with irm and pray thay all (the ai) dont go after you at the same time. you wont like the resaults
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It will not work with PBW, due to incompatibilities with StellarObjectTypes.txt and XFileClasses_Stellar.txt.
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Damn it. Maybe a lighter version (without all the heavy textures) of FQM could be then incorporated into BM?
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That'd be FQM 8 which already has been.
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I already have incorporated FQM beta 8 into the mod. The main change of 9 was the addition of the new planet textures... so it's already like you suggested. 
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That would depend on your skill level. I hear a lot of anecdotes of the IRM AI raping humans. I know first hand that IRM combat is more involved than stock. For me, I have the patience for advanced micromanagement + Efficiency and thus can fairly consistently outpace the AI. But I'm of the rarer variety of players I think.
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