SE5 progress

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by Malfador Machinations:
Hi All,

No, I haven't forgotten about you guys! Its just that some questions came up in the Yahoo list and I thought I'd answer them. Since I'm finalizing the data file structure, seemed a good time to get some feedback on the layout from modders.

This looks great to me. It is very neat to see how you set this up. Thanks for posting it.

Edit, Looks like SJ suggested a simular idea to mine that looks better than mine.

[ June 14, 2004, 21:58: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

[Roanon]

Originally posted by Malfador Machinations:
So instead of those pesky Inc Per Level fields, we would now have formulas to come up with the new values. Of course, speed may be an issue, so it will require some performance testing once its in and working (no guarantees that formulas will survive that).

Great to hear from you, Aaron!

I agree that formulas are a must, because diminishing returns of research is very important for playbalance. If you have concerns about the speed, how about parsing the formulas only once, at game setup, creating a table with hard numbers and save them to a file? In times where a Gigabyte more or less is not an issue, it is always a good idea to trade disk space for processing time if in need.

[Paul1980au]

Well some good progress being made thanks MM(aaron) for posting that update for us.

[Phoenix-D]

I like SJ's suggestion on the formulas. Or maybe instead of having two seperate fields you could have a "weapon damage at range" field that accepts a formula OR a straight listing of damages at range like SE4.

The latter sounds like it might be complicated to code, though.

[TNZ]

Just a few questions about the “Ordnance Amount Used” entry.

When weapon components use this entry will they all use the some ordnance supply or can we have different ordnance supplies e.g. torpedoes, missiles, shell projectiles, energy?

Will we be able to have components that can make ordnance on bases and ships?

[Captain Kwok]

Originally posted by TNZ:
Will we be able to have components that can make ordnance on bases and ships?

I think I would prefer if bases and planets just automatically re-supplied ships with ordnance. I can see it turning into a potentially micromanagement nightmare otherwise.

[Kamog]

The features new weapons data file look great. Does this formula-based method allow unlimited tech levels to be researched?