a few wee little questions...

Lemmy · #1 July 6th, 2002, 02:23 PM

these abilities:
Change Population Happiness - System
Change Bad Event Chance - System
Planet Value Change - System
Planet Conditions Change - System

can they be used on a component?
i was thinking about a space cruise ship, and a ship which generates pollution, thus increasing the chance of a natural disaster, or decrease in planet value/conditions.

[ July 06, 2002, 13:24: Message edited by: Lemmy ]

Gandalph · #2 July 6th, 2002, 06:55 PM

From using the Ultimate Mod extensively in 1.49, I know the Change Population Happiness - System and Change Bad Event Chance - System do work on components. There were religious components with these effects and I used them to create happiness ships I could move from system to system. I don't know if they still work in 1.67, but I don't recall anything in history.txt that says otherwise.

Fyron · #3 July 6th, 2002, 07:05 PM

Planet Value Change - System
Planet Conditions Change - System

These only affect your own planets when on facilities (including the Religious Versions), so I would imagine that they wouldn't work as you had planned. You could of course always test them yourself.

Lemmy · #4 July 6th, 2002, 07:12 PM

ok, 2 out of 4, not bad

i'm planning to do some testing, but i want to look through the files some more, test everything i want to know in one big try and see what's possible

Fyron · #5 July 6th, 2002, 08:23 PM

One more note: Religious value/conditions-improving shrines only affect the planets in your systems that you have colonized. They do not affect the uncolonized planets.

Lemmy · #6 July 7th, 2002, 04:33 PM

more questions:
Can planets be cloaked?
i figure this should happen in StellarAbilityTypes.txt, and should look something like this:
Name := Normal Planet
Number of Poss Abilities := 1
Ability 1 Chance := 50
Ability 1 Type := Cloak Level
Ability 1 Descr := Prevents level 2 Active EM scans.
Ability 1 Val 1 := EM Active
Ability 1 Val 2 := 3

but then you can only cloak against one type of scanner, since only one abilty is chosen.

[ July 07, 2002, 15:34: Message edited by: Lemmy ]

Baron Munchausen · #7 July 7th, 2002, 04:57 PM

No, planets cannot be cloaked. The idea you posted will result in an error as far as I know. The cloak level ability is for ships, not stellar objects. You can hide a planet but it will not be cloakable/uncloakable with a command. Give it the 'sight obscuration' ability, which is a stellar ability, and everything in the sector, including the planet itself, will be invisible until you have sufficient sensors.

We'd like to see planetary cloaks but it's one of a zillion things we'd 'like' to see.

Lemmy · #8 July 7th, 2002, 05:05 PM

ah, ok, 'sight obscuration' is what i was looking for then, thanks.

Phoenix-D · #9 July 7th, 2002, 08:35 PM

it might work as-posted.

works for fighters.. but you can't turn it off for them

Lemmy · #10 July 7th, 2002, 09:14 PM

Quote:

Give it the 'sight obscuration' ability, which is a stellar ability, and everything in the sector, including the planet itself, will be invisible until you have sufficient sensors.

but this would also hide any ships in that ssector
What i wanted was to "cloak" tiny planets, uncolonized, untill you researched sensors good enough to detect them, but if you see enemy ships dissappearing in that sector, you would know there is something there.
Then my only hope for that is the way i posted it?