[Trachmyr]

A few additions to the wish list...

"Min Weight" & "Max Weight" fields in componets.txt so we can create items only for certain classes of vehicles.

Add a Requirement field to componets.txt that would make a componet need another componet to be valid

A new "Supplies Drained" field for componets that use supplies at the beggining of every turn (and are damaged if not available)

New cloaking abilites... "Negates Cloak", which limits cloaking in a TYPE to a certain LEVEL... also "Cloak Bonous" which adds a NUMBER OF LEVELS to a cloaking TYPE (this would not be 'stackable')

Make the REQUIREMENTS section in vehiclesize.txt work... including custom Groups

Seperate planetary Shipyard facilities from ship-based Shipyards, and put in an ability that would require repairing/building to be only possible a planet shipyards

Add a population componet that can only store population but allows it to function as if on a planet (prod. bonous, growth, etc.)

An Armor.txt file so that you can group weapons into diffrent damage classes, and allow diffrent armor to defend against diffrent weapon type, well... diffrently
(i.e., "Laminate" armor protects at 200% vs. "Explosive" weapons, thus all damage would be halved until the armor is deystroyed)


Lastly, A BIG WISH... ENERGY
>>> It would work like supplies (and likewise require abilities to USE/DRAIN/STORE and GENERATE Energy.)
It would need to be displayed in the design screen and the general info on a ship... next to supplies.

This would allow some more interesting designs as you would need to consider another required 'ingrediant', and pull people away from the constant power-monger ship designs. It would also be nice if a on/off toggle for shields was included, like cloaks.

A final note: Energy weapons would drain ENERGY only in combat, and be per shot used... While projectile/seekers would drain supplies per shot (a lot for seekers)
Thus running low or out of either would be disasterous in combat as you could no longer use those weapons.

Well that's my 2 cents....


[This message has been edited by Trachmyr (edited 07 January 2001).]