PHost 4.1 Custom Race Builder

Rules

Allies not allowed
Information sharing not allowed
Ship/planet trade not allowed
NAP with 1 neighbour only allowed until turn 30
Be the best, fight the rest!

Setup

HW with 2 Warp 7 starting ships (Swift & MDSF)
Game runs 3/week until turn 30, then 2/week.
Biggest score at turn 80 wins.
PHost Experience in ON. Combat will be effected. Some ship features will only become available at certain Experience Levels
Only 7 players slots available
Custom Map with 300 planets, No Wrap
Custom HW locations, 30 000 clans, 15 000MC
Homeworld Core 4000 N, 2000 T, 3500 D, 1650 M
Homeworld Surface 2000 N, t300 T, 350 D, 150 M
Homeworld Density 20 N, 20 T, 15 D, 95 M
PlanetCoreRangesUsual = 110, 110, 110, 110, 700, 500, 500, 200
PlanetCoreRangesAlternate = 900, 800, 700, 600, 12000, 10000, 10000, 10000
PlanetCoreUsualFrequency = 74, 82, 86, 87
(This means that except for fuel (26%), the other minerals will have around 15% chance to be a big rock. Chances are you will need your Alcamy ships in this game and build wisely!)
NativesOnPlanetFrequency = 60% (About half the planets may have natives)

Information

We are using PHost 4.1e with Custom features. The full PHost docs can be found here
Quick Links: Missions | Starship functions | Experience | Config File | First Time with PHost Guide
Battle Viewer: Please use PlayVCR
Suggested Clients: VPA, JVC, PCC, Winplan does work but is not suggested.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What is meant by "Planet immunity" (Klingon/Rebel)
A: Planets that set their FC to ATT or NUK will attack an enemy ship that orbit it even though that ship has not set Primary Enemy or mission Kill. However Klingon and Rebel ships cannot be attacked by planets in this way. This is the normal Host behaviour for those 2 races.

Q: Klingons have "Ships immune to GloryDevice". Does this mean that if an enemy sets off a GD, then no damage will be taken?
A: If you are the owner of the GD ship that gets POPed, then you only get 10% while all enemy ships get 100% minehit damage. However if another race POP a GD, Klingon ships will only get 10% damage to their ships. This in the normal Host behaviour for the Klingons.

Q: If I have a hardened cloak, does this mean that the cloak will still work regardless of how much damage the ship has?
A: Yes

Q: Do stickymines drain fuel?
A: No. They are webmines with 0 fuel drain

Q: Where it's got "minefields safe travel" and then in brackets cloaked or uncloaked, does this mean I must be cloaked or uncloaked to get the bonus? If I choose the top option in this row, can I travel cloaked at Warp 8 with immunity?
A: If it say Uncloaked it only applies when you are not cloaked. If it says Cloaked, then you must be cloaked for it to apply. In the top option you will not hit a minefield when you travel at warp 8 or less and your ships are uncloaked.

Q: How many experience points are required to get to next level?
A: Experience levels are:0, 201, 601, 2001, 6001

Q: What Experience Levels are there and how much points are needed to advance a level?
A: There are 4 Levels you can gain (0, 201, 601, 2001, 6001) which are called Recruit, Soldier, Experienced, Elite, Ultra Elite in that order.

Q: How are experience awarded?
A: You can train you crew to gain experience, but most things that you do also gain experience like:
EPShipAging = 15
EPPlanetAging = 25
EPPlanetGovernment = 0
EPShipMovement100LY = 40
EPShipHyperjump = 30
EPShipAlchemy100KT = 5
EPShipIonStorm100MEV = 80
EPCombatKillScaling = 800
EPCombatDamageScaling = 200

Q: Do the game slot have any relation to the features and missions I will have?
A: Even though you play using a certain game slot, the features will only be those that you have selected here. You mission might show the original mission related to the game slot you have, but only the mission you selected here will be available. e.g. I use game slot 2, I select mission Pillage and race features for the Colonies. My client program might still show my mission as Hiss for the game slot 2, but by using the Hiss mission in the client I will actually Pillage and not Hiss, while I will be able to Sweep Mines with Fighters on a Carrier.

Your Race Name

Race Full Name		eg.The Solar Federation
Race Normal Name		eg.Federation
Race Short Name		eg.Feds

Circus-Maximus player Alias		e.g. Bitmask
Circus-Maximus game race slot allocated
Circus-Maximus host name (for SPAM verification)		Circus-Maximus
Your email used for games at Circus-Maximus

Your Race Type features

Please select the race type features you want to have. The race feature is not assigned by the game slot you receive, but by what you select here.

Federation	The Federation are technologically advanced. Their advanced engineers give their ships extra fighting power in fights and can restore their shields between fights.
Lizard	Due to their tough skin, Lizards can sustain more damage during a fight before blowing up.
Romulan	The Romulans are master cloakers. Their cloaking ships don't use fuel to cloak, have no cloak failure, and all cloaking ships have hardened their cloaking devices to work even when the ship is damaged.
Klingon	The Klingons have so much pride that even the freshest rookie on a ship will learn very fast from the experienced crew. Because of this pride Klingon crews only lose 10% of their experience when recrewing.
Privateer	The pirates are masters at steering their ships so they have a reduced chance of hitting minefields. While cloaked, and by slowing down, they can reduce their minehit chance.
Borg	The Borg Assimilate natives into their colony and can scoop debris from a fight.
Crystal	The Crystals are a race so in tune with mine fields that they can avoid minehits by slowing down. They can even avoid sticky minefields. They like warm planets and have advanced growth the warmer a planet becomes, but they will also not die if the planet temperature does not support them.
Empire	The Empire is a race that like to show their power and so have developed technology that their ships can work inside an ion storm without any side effects. They are also very good at using the Force and so have increased their fighter building efficiency and can use their ships to persuade their captives on planets to work for them.
Robots	Robots being robots are extreamly efficient. Their minefields do not decay and they can send their crews for upgrades at their acadamies
Rebels	The Rebels have learned to handle any circumstance in any place. They can hide one any type of planet and because they learned to work without any base support they can learn more efficient without an Academy.
Colonies	The Colonies have superior fighters. The fighters can sweep minefields and can even do in while in a ion storm.

Special Missions

This is the special mission you will get. Your client might display the mission for your race slot, but this is what actually will be applied. You will not receive the mission for your race slot, only what you select here.

Super Refit
Hiss
Spy/Super-Spy
Pillage
Self-repair
DarkSense
RGA
Sticky Mines
(Sticky Mines has a 5% hit chance (normal & cloak) and only do 25% of the damage of a normal mine, but when a minehit occurs the ship is stuck(movement) till the next turn. Normal mines will NOT destroy webmines and you have to be closer to a sticky minefield to sweep it (5LY) - It's webmines with 0 fuel drain)

Economy - 4000 MC to spend

	-1000 MC	0 MC	1000 MC	2000 MC	3000 MC	4000 MC	5000 MC
Transfer to Exploits section		No Transfer		Add 1000MC	Add 2000MC		Add 3000MC
Colonist Tax	70%	100%	120%		140%	160%
Natives Tax	70%	100%		120%	140%	160%
Mining Rate	70%	100%		120%	140%	160%
Supply Production	70%	100%	120%		140%	160%
Ground Attack		x1	x5		x10	x20
Ground Defence		x1	x2	x5	x10
Race Growth Rate		100%	120%	140%	160%	200%

Exploits - 7000 MC to spend

	0 MC	1000 MC	2000 MC	3000 MC	4000 MC	5000 MC
Free fighter at Starbase / turn	0 fighters	1 fighter	2 fighters	3 fighters	5 fighters	8 fighters
Clone Captured Ships % of normal cost	400% cost	200% cost	100% cost	50% cost	20% cost
Mine Sweep Rate (Cannot be selected if Sticky Mines are chosen)	100% rate		125% rate	150% rate	175% rate	200% rate
Fighter Bays on cariers	0 extra		1 extra		2 extra	3 extra
Minefields Safe Travel	None		Minefields (un-cloaked) up to warp 5	Minefields (cloaked) up to warp 6	Sticky minefields (un-cloaked) up to warp 7	Minefields (un-cloaked) up to warp 8
Units Per Torpedo Rate (Cannot be selected if Sticky Mines are chosen)	100% rate	125% rate	150% rate	200% rate	300% rate	400% rate
Terraform (Temp +/- & Ore Density)	2x rate		4x rate	6x rate	8x rate	10x rate
Scan Range	250 LY	350 LY	450 LY	600 LY	800 LY
Anti-Cloak Immunity	Selected Immunity Only					All cloaked ships are Loki & D19b immune
Allow Build Fighters in space	None					Using "lfm" Friendly Code

Ship list

Based on TList1.1 (Red is changes vs Tim ship list)

Ships                            Bm  T  F  Mass  Carg  En  Fuel  Crew  Tl  Tri  Dur  Mol    MC  Sp (Sp at Exp Level)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SWIFT HEART CLASS SCOUT          2  0  0    45    20   1   170   126   1   20    6    5    60  (cloak Level 2)
MEDIUM DEEP SPACE FREIGHTER      0  0  0    60   300   1   250     6   3    8    8   14    65  (cloak Level 3)
FALCON CLASS ESCORT              2  0  0    30   120   1   150    27   2    5    5   12    50  Hyperjump (cloak Level 2)
BOHEMIAN CLASS SURVEY SHIP       2  0  0    32    30   2   180    70   3   25   15    3    40  + Heat Planet
NEUTRONIC FUEL CARRIER           0  0  0    10     2   2   900     2   3    2   10   20    20  (Hardened engins Level 3)
D7 COLDPAIN CLASS CRUISER        4  2  0   175   100   2   430   373   4   71   42   63   120  cloak
EROS CLASS RESEARCH VESSEL       2  0  0    35    30   2   110    78   4    3    4   33    30  - Cool Planet
COBOL CLASS RESEARCH CRUISER     4  2  0   115   250   2   450   286   4   37   32   23   150  Bioscanner, Ramscoop, (Full Bioscan Lev 2)
LADY ROYALE CLASS CRUISER        4  1  0   130   160   2   670   270   5   61   52   83   250  Gambling
METEOR CLASS BLOCKADE RUNNER     4  4  0    90   120   2   285   102   5   17   22   55   250  Gravitonic cloak
SKYFIRE CLASS CRUISER            4  4  0   300   250   2   270   270   5   71   52   93   250  Repairs
QUIETUS CLASS CRUISER            4  1  0   130   250   2   470   170   5   61   52   73   120  Ore Condenser (Gambling Level 4)
GEMINI CLASS TRANSPORT           4  0  1   140   400   2   350   326   6   42   14   48   145  Academy Ship
DETH SPECULA CLASS FRIGATE       4  6  0   153    50   2   180   240   6   50   30   89   280  cloak (Anti cloak immune Level 1)
LARGE DEEP SPACE FREIGHTER       0  0  0   130  1200   2   600   102   6    7   85    8   160  (Ion Shield at Level 4)
D19b NEFARIOUS CLASS DESTROYER   7  0  0    96    40   1   160   265   6   53   32   65   180  Glory 20% (Anti cloak Level 2)
SUPER STAR DESTROYER             8  0  3   250    80   2   180   458   6   71   42   92   390  Planet Immune, Imperial Assult
SCORPIUS CLASS LIGHT CARRIER     6  0  5   315    90   3   250   958   6  171   72   62   387
RESOLUTE CLASS BATTLECRUISER     8  3  0   180   280   2   480   348   7   71   52   93   380  Advance cloak (Ramscoop Level 2)
SABER CLASS FRIGATE             10  0  0   153    25   2   150   420   8   35   25   95   280  Glory 10% (Planet Immune Level 3)
LOKI CLASS DESTROYER             2  4  0   101    80   2   140   265   8   20   10   43   170  Anti Cloak (Ion Shield Level 2)
RED WIND CLASS CARRIER           2  0  4   105    80   2   145    98   8   57   35   25   150  Cloak
IRON LADY CLASS FRIGATE          8  2  0   150    60   2   210    99   9   33   32   47   290  Anti Cloak (Advance Anti Cloak Lev 2)
VICTORIOUS CLASS BATTLESHIP     10  8  0   451   150   2   290   810  10  193  170  100   410  (Commander Level )
DARK WING CLASS BATTLESHIP      10  8  0   491   150   2   390   910  10  183  170  110   450  Advance Cloak (Hardened cloak Level 3)
AUTOMA CLASS BASESHIP            4  0  8   560   200   6  1480  1258   9  131  242   45   690  (Full Weaponry Level 1)
GORBIE CLASS BATTLECARRIER      10  0 10   980   250   6  1760  2287  10  471  142  442   790  (Imperial Assult Level 4)
NEUTRONIC REFINERY SHIP          6  0  0   712  1050  10   800   190   9  150  125  527   970  Fuel Refinery (Advance Refinery Lev 4)
MERLIN CLASS ALCHEMY SHIP        8  0  0   920  2700  10   450   120  10  250  625  134   840  Alchemy (Ore Condenser Level 4)
SUPER TRANSPORT FREIGHTER        0  0  0   160  2600   4  1200   202  10   13  125   18   220  (+ Heat, - Cool Planet at Level 4)

Free Ships

All players will get these ships. This will also be the only ships available to build on turn 1.

Medium Deep Space Freighter Level 3: Cloak	Swift Heart Class Scout Level 2: Cloak	Merlin Class Alchemy Ship Alchemy Level 4: Ore Condenser	Large Deep Space Freighter Level 4: Ion Shield
Neutronic Fuel Carrier Level 3: Hardened Engines	Neutronic Refinery Ship Fuel Refinery Level 4: Advanced Refinery	Super Transport Freighter Level 4: + Heat Planet Level 4: - Cool Planet	Gemini Class Transport Academy Ship

Ships Options - A - Normal abilities

Selected 0/3 ships from this section.

D7 Coldpain Class Cruiser Cloak	Bohemian Class Survey Ship + Heat Planet	Eros Class Research Vessel - Cool Planet	Quietus Class Cruiser Ore Condenser (Gambling Level 4)
Lady Royale Class Cruiser Gambling	Scorpius Class Light Carrier	Red Wind Class Carrier Cloak	Skyfire Class Cruiser Repairs

Ships Options - B - Level 2 abilities

Selected 0/2 ships from this section.

Deth Specula Class Frigate Cloak Level 2: Anti-Cloak Immune (immune to most Anti Cloak ships, but not the Saber or Iron Lady Level 2)	Falcon Class Escort Hyperjump Level 2: Cloak (hyperjump will decloak ship)	Cobol Class Research Cruiser Bioscan Ramscoop Level 2: Full Bioscan	Super Star Destroyer Planet Immune Imperial Assult
Loki Class Destroyer Anti-cloak Level 2: ion shield	D19b Nefarious Class Destroyer Glory Device (20% self damage) Level 2: Anti-Cloak (the explosion also emits Tachyon radiation which will decloak all ships in 10 LY range)	Saber Class Frigate Glory Device (10% self damage). When used in "Trigger" mode (trg), this device will find all cloaked ships	Iron Lady Class Frigate Anti-Cloak Level 2: Advanced Anti-Cloak