A couple of modding questions

[Renegade 13]

I've done a little testing, and the Maximum Planet Percent Value can go at least as high as 65000, and everything works great. Here's my question though. So we have empires with virtually unlimited resources, from just a couple of planets. That means fleets of thousands of ships could conceivably be built. However, the combat window is only 63 by 63 squares if I counted right, making a total of 3969 squares.

So if my fleet of 2000 ships meets my enemies fleet of 2000 ships, there isn't space for all of them. Would that result in a game-killing overflow error or something? Or would ships stack like they did in SE3? And is there any way to alter the size of the combat window so it is greater than 63 by 63? Cause I'd like fleets with thousands of ships, but that may not be possible if the combat window can't be expanded. Thanks again for the help.

Renegade 13

[ January 03, 2004, 14:58: Message edited by: Renegade 13 ]

[Puke]

nah, ships will stack, ive seen it. but i think they stay inside of your deployment area when being placed. If you want really large battles, you can always mod ships to be fighters, and then you can have stacks of hundreds of ships. it can be a pain to rearrange your stacks, especially when launching from planets, so there are some downsides to that idea.

maxint is 2^16 (two bytes), or 65,536. or possibly 65,535 since that is FFFF in hex, and one of the values has to be reserved for zero, so its actually 2^16 - 1. if its higher than that, he used longint (god knows why..). I dont remember how many bytes are in longint, but I think its max value is somewhere in the millions. a google search for "longint" or "long interger" should turn it up.

[Kamog]

How do you get the ships to stack? I couldn't get my ships to move onto the same space as another ship...