new race/ship set

[Hrothgar]

By popular demand [actually, one person--Trooper--asked for it ] I'm expanding the Pulp race to neo-standard. I'm also takng the opportunity to try to improve the AI, as testing it against the United Flora showed how woefully inadequate it was. I'd like to specify that certain ships use the following:

Stealth Armor
Massive Shield Depleter
Neural Network

I recall reading a post which suggested making sure the latter two are included in your ship designs, in case you discover them via ruins, but I can't figure out how to include them. I tried adding them as miscellaneous abilities, "Massive Shield Depleter," and "Neural Network," but the program gives me error Messages indicating that these values are unknown. I also tried adding "Stealth" and "Stealth Armor" as miscellaneous abilities, but both of those attempts also produced the "value unknown" error message.

If anyone knows how to get any of these things included, I'd appreciate it. I'd rather not add the massive shield depleter as one of the two weapon possibilities, because I have other plans for those slots; however, if that's the only way to get it in, there's not much I can do about it. But, the Neural Net and Stealth Armor are not weapons, hence I couldn't use that option for them, even if I wanted to.

Thanks.

[ June 17, 2003, 15:48: Message edited by: Hrothgar ]