New "Random Events" Mod!

Nuggets

@magge said:

Could the numbers also be randomized?

I think it may be fun to have a regular mode with standard values, and a separate "Chaos" mode where the numbers can vary much more.

Yes, but it kind of depends what the goal is. I feel like I set everything to have a decent / big impact. If you randomize and go in 2 different directions I feel likes its either not as interesting because it was nerfed or way too brutal.

BUT I was thinking of doing a separate mod that is essentially this popup (like roguelike) choose 1 of 3 stat modifiers with different rarities. But not sure!

Firv

Having 3 events pop up and everyone vote for what event to get would be funny. In a tie have both of them appear at once!

Nuggets

@Firv said:

Having 3 events pop up and everyone vote for what event to get would be funny. In a tie have both of them appear at once!

What do you mean? Isnt that what I implemented? Except with the tie causing both to happen

wilson_

@Nuggets Stop hallucinating!!!!

Nuggets

V16 with some bugfixes / changes!

Commanders copied from "your acu had a child" now also copies upgrades
Commanders inherited from "soul harvest" (killed enemy commanders) now also keep upgrades
Fixed the bug where units sometimes spawn underground or in a weird way when transforming
Fixed income buff being reset after making mass storage for adjacency on mex

BlackJaguar

Works smoothly! Very good new concept!

Nuggets

And since I have been working on another update in parallel to the previous one, here is V17. I did get 1-2 messages saying that the normal stat changes events could be a bit lame, so I decided to make more "special events":

Changes:

The event that take mass from the richest and gives to the poorest player now announces who got mass from who
The event that locks controls for 20 seconds now has a secondary announcement when controls are "free" again

Additions:

Martyrdom (duration) - Units explode on death, damaging friend and foe alike. Damage and AoE scale with tech level
Static Storm (duration) - Any unit standing still for 3+ seconds takes 5% of its max HP per second until it moves. ACUs and buildings are safe.
Buy One Get Two (duration) - Every unit a factory builds comes out twice. (Experimentals are not doubled)
Mass Production (duration) - Units up to T3 cost 50% less and build twice as fast.
You Are What You Kill (duration) - Units transform into whatever unit they kill. Only unit-vs-unit kills count - killing buildings does nothing, and structures and commanders never transform.
Mitosis (duration) - Dying units split into two random units one tier lower in the same domain (T3 → two T2s, T2 → two T1s, T1 → nothing).
Roulette Factory (duration) - Factories produce a random unit of the ordered tier and domain instead of what was queued.
Cell Division (instant) - Every unit on the map splits in two - both copies at half health. Commanders excluded.

So now there are 130 events!

Skrat

@Nuggets nice new ava xD

Nuggets

Uploaded version 19 with mainly some fixes / clarifications:

Fixed the bug where t1 units could randomly have like 15000 hp after the event -99% hp
negative HP modifiers now also affect shields
Fixed "Mitosis" (dying units split into two lower tier units) not working for air
The event that transform all units into "bugs" no longer transform unfinished experimentals into finished monkeylords with % of their health missing
All stat modifiers for units now also impact the ACU (exceptions are modification to -HP, because I dont want ACUs to be more easily snipeable)

Nuggets

V20 with some fixes, new events and the requested range modifier feature.

Changes:

Mass defection (all engineers switch side) is now half as likely.
The ghosts (also called Dummy Drone (ZXA0001)) removed from the transformations
Static Storm (units standing still take damage over time) removed -> didnt work
Commander Meltdown (all ACUs drop to 1 hp) removed -> this event had no real feature except that people randomly die to 1 unit.

New events:

Artillery Barrage - all weapons +100% range.
Skirmish Lines - land units -50% range, +50% speed.
Fortress Guns - structures +100% range, -30% damage.
Overextended - mobile units +100% range, -30% damage.

New "special events":

Defector Vote: Each team gets a vote (with 20 second timer) to choose one teammate to move to the opponent team. This change is permanent.
Every Man For Himself: For the duration of this events, teams are disbanded and its a FFA. As soon as the event runs out, everyone is back to their original team.