[geoschmo]

Ok, You ever have one of those moments where something occurs to you and it's so simple it's like "Well Duh! <Smacks head>"? I had one of those moments today.

Something that comes up a lot in PBW games is how do you determine what shipset a player is using so you don't try to use the same one? Not a problem if you are using custom shipsets, cause you can select the shipset you are using when you upload your empire file and it will display it on the game info screen. But if you are using a stock shipset, what to do?

You can type the name of the shipset in parenthases with your empire name. Kind of bulky, but it gets the job done. You can have a list in the game forum, but you know how well that works usually.

So my idea today was to upload the stock shipsets to the PBW file library with the custom ones so each player can select the appropriate one when they are uploading their empire file. That's a waste of PBW resources, so instead of that what I did was make up a bitmap that has images of the 20 stock races and uploaded that 20 times and named it the various stock shipsets. "Stock Shipset - Abbidon", etc. The bitmap may come in handy if you aren't sure of the name of the shipset, but know what it looks like. (The lizard guys...) It's small if you want to download it, it's not neccesary to download it if you don't need it.

Anyway, use it and enjoy it. Hope it helps. It's not a required that you use it, but it's there as an option to help avoid confusion.

Geoschmo
PBW Admin Team

[ 02 April 2002: Message edited by: geoschmo ]