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Originally posted by alien2:
Thanks for the response.
On a completely different note, is there a text file setting which governs the maximum number of engines per ship size and if so can it be altered without causing problems in the game ?? Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems that the smaller ship sizes (destroyer, frigate, escort) have no advantages over the larger ship sizes, other than cost (?) I would really like the smaller ships to have the advantage of speed by way of more engines.
Cheers.
Each ship class has a settable engines per move and maximum engines rating in VehicleSizes.txt -- and fighters, too. Since the 'engines per move' setting is really 'movement points per move' you can give engines more than one standard movement point each and then make a smoother 'curve' for the increasing movement cost of larger ships. Like most clever uses of the game settings, though, this will confuse the AI.
[This message has been edited by Baron Munchausen (edited 23 September 2001).]