Component/modding questions

[Noble713]

1. I want to make a "screen", which would be a shield that works like a screen door. Instead of blocking 100% of the incoming damage until all the shields are gone, it would block x% (increasing with each level) of EVERY shot that hit the ship, until the generator is hit and destroyed. Is there any way to do this?

Example: CA 01 has a EM Screen I that blocks 50% of incoming damage. It gets hit by an APB (20 damage), a Meson BLaster (15), and a CSM I (60).

Result:
-APB damage reduced by 50% to 10. Ten damage allocated to random component (or armor, if it has any).
-Meson damage reduced by 50% to 7 (round down). Seven damage allocated to random component.
-CSM damage reduced to 30, allocated to random component.

I'd also like to make screens and regular shields mutually exclusive.

2. Can you make weapons that fire more than once per turn?

I'd also like to point out that using the "Seeker" images/icons for direct fire weapons isn't a good idea (you can't see them, I think).

[Jubala]

Interesting idea. It would make armor more important. I like it. Anybody know if it can be done?

[Baron Munchausen]

You are describing the "Damper Field" from MOO II. It reduces all damage by 75 percent. This is a nifty concept and an excellent "alternative" to shields. With shield-facings in MOO, there was an interesting trade off between being able to protect your ship completely from a fixed amount of damage and having the options to turn your ship in another direction to use a fresh shield on the one hand, and being able to sustain truly awesome total amounts of damage with Xentronium armor and the Damper Field, and not having to worry about "shield facing" on the other hand. We have requested something like a Damper Field before. Either he doesn't want to do it, or has too many other things to worry about right now.