Error in Component Enhancements file

[Grognard]

The Component Enhancements file lists an incorrect value for Massive Ship Mounts. This file lists the minimum tonnage as 1100 kT. The correct number should be 1200 kT.

Grogard

[Suicide Junkie]

There are no 1100KT ships.

Thus, a DN (1000kT) can't use the mount, only baseships(1500kT) can.
Changing the value to 1200 will have absolutely no effect on your game

In fact, any value from 1001 to 1500 inclusive would not change your game, unless there are modded shipsizes.

[This message has been edited by suicide_junkie (edited 30 May 2001).]

[jc173]

Actually you forgot about the Heavy Carrier SJ, I think it's 1200kt in the basic Version.

[Suicide Junkie]

Thanks, I've never actually used a heavy carrier, so they slipped my mind .

I wouldn't expect a Massive mount weapon on a carrier though, I would think extra fighter bays and shields and PDCs would be most popular.

Still, that leaves any number from 1001 to 1200 having no effect on the game. So the Heavy Carrier still gets to use those Massive mount weapons like it used to.

[Baron Munchausen]

I don't consider this an error. That seems a reasonable point at which to allow 'massive' sized weapons on a ship. If there isn't a class at exactly that size right now, so what? A small change to VehicleSize.txt and there would be one. Actually, in my personal mod the Dreadnought is 1250kt so it qualifies for massive mounts. (Battleship is 1000kt and all the rest slightly larger, too.)

The only 'error' I can think of in the compenhancement fle is that there's no way to give SHIELDS a mount. If we could have scaled shield generators in the same way we have weapons for larger vehicles the system would be perfect.

[Nitram Draw]

How about scaling engines too. This would eliminate some of the complaints about engine size. DN engines that provide more power (movement) but guzzle supplies and take up a lot more space.