Captains and Governors

[Kadste]

Some of the areas that I am working on in my mod are crew grade, starship captains and planetary/system governors. Crew grade is done with 6 grades. New facilities include Training Centers. Also included are grade of fighter pilot with new facilities including Fighter School. I am happy with them, so I moved on.

Next was starship captains. Captains are modeled after conmponents. Here is an example:

Name := Jean Luc Picard
Description := Legendary Starship Captain that will positively affect System/Combat movement and Combat Offensive/Defensive abilities.
Pic Num := 308
Tonnage Space Taken := 1
Tonnage Structure := 1
Cost Minerals := 1000
Cost Organics := 1000
Cost Radioactives := 1000
Vehicle Type := Ship\Base
Supply Amount Used := 1
Restrictions := One Per Vehicle
General Group := Vehicle Control
Family := 7000
Roman Numeral := 0
Custom Group := 0
Number of Tech Req := 0
Number of Abilities := 4
Ability 1 Type := Combat Movement
Ability 1 Descr := Generates 1 additional movement point during combat.
Ability 1 Val 1 := 1
Ability 1 Val 2 := 0
Ability 2 Type := Movement Bonus
Ability 2 Descr := Generates 1 bonus movement points.
Ability 2 Val 1 := 1
Ability 2 Val 2 := 0
Ability 3 Type := Combat To Hit Offense Plus
Ability 3 Descr := Gives a 20% attack bonus in combat (only 1 component per ship effective).
Ability 3 Val 1 := 20
Ability 3 Val 2 := 0
Ability 4 Type := Combat To Hit Defense Plus
Ability 4 Descr := Gives a 20% defense bonus in combat (only 1 component per ship effective).
Ability 4 Val 1 := 20
Ability 4 Val 2 := 0
Weapon Type := None

This seems to work, but will require testing.
How about it, you can be the first kid on your planet to command your very own starship, your picture included! I used Jean Luc's picture at this time, but do not know how to how to include his portrait on the component bitmap image. Anybody know how?

Next I will tackle Planetary Governors and System Governors. Not sure if they should be a facility (leading in my opinion right now), a unit, or some other thing. Need restrictions to work, but the facilities.txt says they will not work. I will try a one per planet and one per system ability to see if they will work.

Comments, opinions, suggestions welcome.



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In difficult ground, press-on;
In encircled ground, devise stratagems;
In death ground, fight.
Sun Tzu (circa 400 B.C.)

[Phoenix-D]

The thing is, with this idea you can have many many Picards *in the same fleet*, to say nothing of the same sector, system, or quadrent!

Phoenix-D

[Urendi Maleldil]

WOW! Picard weighs 1 kiloton! He must've gotten really fat after Insurrection. Too much Antarean Chocolate Cake. With those food replecators one can really lose control.

[Phoenix-D]

He's got a point. Just call it support staff, if you need to.

You CAN make components weightless, though.

Phoenix-D

[Suicide Junkie]

Ther is a problem with the bonus movement ability:
it will eliminate the bonus from JP and Quantum engines, and will not stack with CT engines.

You need to change:
Ability 2 Type := Movement Bonus
Ability 2 Descr := Generates 1 bonus movement points.
Ability 2 Val 1 := 1
Ability 2 Val 2 := 0

Into
Ability 2 Type := Movement Bonus
Ability 2 Descr := Generates 1 bonus movement points.
Ability 2 Val 1 := 1
Ability 2 Val 2 := 995

[Kadste]

The idea is to inject another element into the game and that is the quality of the crew and captain.

I am leaning towards a generic captain (and staff) who will positively influence the ship. They will be graded like my crews; green, regular, experienced, crack, elite. With higher mods per grade. Also toying with the idea of having abilities other than movement and combat to hit off/def.

Did you notice Jean Luc near the end of the series, I think he might have weighed 1 kiloton. Phoenix, thanks, I will try out weightless components.

SJ, Thanks for the tip on the engines

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In difficult ground, press-on;
In encircled ground, devise stratagems;
In death ground, fight.
Sun Tzu (circa 400 B.C.)