posted by Baron Munchausen: "I had not heard that having more than one message for either an intel operation or an event would result in a 'random' selection among the Messages. Has this been verified? By whom?"
I just tested this. Added another message to the ship bomb. The split between the two Messages seems to be 50/50. Of course the image that is shown is always the same. Sometimes the sentence "we suspect the [empire] for this [adjective] act." was added. I reckon this showed up in one out three or four cases.
There are some good ideas in this thread. I like the idea of intel ops that seems to be a natural event. Some extra projects could be added like "Ship Bomb (natural)" or "Food Contamination (natural)". These projects would be more costly, but attempt to blame it on Mother Nature. Of course, corresponding natural events must be added. The player using the intel project still runs the risk of the "we suspect..." sentence though. Now if the event.txt allowed something like [%randomempire] that would be great
. You could make an event that puts the blame on a random player
.
Hmm, I am considering a little overhaul on the intelprojects and events in DevnullMod. Any takers? Geo?
Rollo
edit: I was offline typing. so my post isn't completely up tp date. Baron, the "we suspect.." addition is still working.
[ July 11, 2002, 17:03: Message edited by: Rollo ]