Mod question: Possible to create research/intell component on ship?
 

I was wondering:

Is it possible to create a ship component that will give research/intelligence points?

Similar to the research lab ship component from MOO 2 if anyone remembers that?

Anyone know how to do something like this?

Re: Mod question: Possible to create research/intell component on ship?
 

Invader, we tried this early on when the game came out and others have tried this every now and then. The short answer is no. You can put the abilities on a new component and get it on a ship, but they will not accumulate points b/c of the way it is hard-coded. The P & N mod crew might have found a way around this though. . .

[ June 06, 2002, 21:44: Message edited by: Tampa_Gamer ]

Re: Mod question: Possible to create research/intell component on ship?
 

The P&N mod "crew" is just one me.
To answer the question:

Ship based research = Boarding Parties + SpaceYard

Ship based intel = N/A
(If you don't have planets, you don't have political contact with aliens, and thus you cannot harm or be harmed by intel ops)

Re: Mod question: Possible to create research/intell component on ship?
 

Thanks...Though Im not sure I understand how the P&N crew mod works...or how you get rp out of boarding parties & a spaceyard... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

I dont know that many intricacies of the game yet http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

Re: Mod question: Possible to create research/intell component on ship?
 

He is being funny. He means pirates and nomads don't do research themselves. Instead, they steal (extract) it from captured (liberated) ships.

Re: Mod question: Possible to create research/intell component on ship?
 

"or how you get rp out of boarding parties & a spaceyard..."

Board the ship, capture it, take it to a shipyard and use the analyze function. You gain at technology if the ship is more advanced than what you have