Design type & Strats.

[Lucanos]

Quoting CAPTQ:
"I've found that the default for ships without weapons is Don't Get Hurt...

If you design an "attack ship" (design type) without weapons it will still be "Optimal Firing Range".

What Purple Rhino wanted was to create a new -DESIGN TYPE- with it a default strategy without having to change the strategy for every new ship.

I wanna do that too.

Help?

[Tampa_Gamer]

Dracus - I would be very interested to see this - I have been trying to do this since December. I most recently tried it again Last weekend, no luck. The AI_Construction_Vehicle file is only allowed to make calls to certain hard-coded "design types" even though it states at the top of the file that we should be able to place a "[Race]_AI_DesignTypes" in that folder and create new ones. Changin the file of that same name located in the \Data folder does not work. I have also tried redesigning design types such as the kamikaze and boarding into a scout of some sort, but there is now way to tell the AI what to do with these ships (they just sit forever at the construction yard b/c they are not currently coded to be added to fleets). This probably isn't helping you. Anyway, this area of the AI is very frustrating b/c with two small changes, we could improve fleet use and ship design drastically:

(1) Construction_Vehicle "Calls" based on "Design Name" instead of "Design Type"

(2) A flag in the design file to indicate whether this ship should be added to fleets or not.

Sorry for the long post - just my 2 cents.

[Dracus]

Never Mind, It just crashed my computer.