Tip: Change system backgrounds to solid black for better visibility

[Fyron]

Originally posted by bearclaw:
Another good trick (actually, I guess this would be a dirty trick...) I've used to 'hide' in plain sight, is to have a small spyship or satellite in sector 0,0. It's easy to overlook a ship hiding behind the name of the system.

But, shhh. Don't tell anyone

That is not that good of a trick... you can still easily tell that someone has a ship in your system from the galaxy map. Only takes a little bit of time to locate it.

So I guess that only altering one picture of a shipset may invalidate it, forcing the game to use the default shipset. But you would have to ask someone knowledgeable about how shipsets are handled by the game.

For images that the game finds in the race folder, it uses. For images that it can not find, it uses generic images. One invalid image does not make the game use all generic images.

[ July 15, 2004, 17:58: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[Alneyan]

Indeed Fyron; when running a test about this, I removed too many images and came to a wrong conclusion as a result (I only have a few full shipsets here, with all the other ones reduced to their flag and race portrait so that I can still see the difference between various Empires).

[Intimidator]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

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Originally posted by bearclaw:
Another good trick (actually, I guess this would be a dirty trick...) I've used to 'hide' in plain sight, is to have a small spyship or satellite in sector 0,0. It's easy to overlook a ship hiding behind the name of the system.

But, shhh. Don't tell anyone

That is not that good of a trick... you can still easily tell that someone has a ship in your system from the galaxy map. Only takes a little bit of time to locate it.

So I guess that only altering one picture of a shipset may invalidate it, forcing the game to use the default shipset. But you would have to ask someone knowledgeable about how shipsets are handled by the game.

For images that the game finds in the race folder, it uses. For images that it can not find, it uses generic images. One invalid image does not make the game use all generic images.

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Agreed Fyron, but in a large game (100 planets up) I can imagine that some one in a hurry will overlook the vessel little vessel in the corner (I do this often myself)

[Suicide Junkie]

Why not use hot-pink as a background then? It will certainly make the ships stand out

[Raging Deadstar]

[quote]Originally posted by Intimidator:

Agreed Fyron, but in a large game (100 planets up) I can imagine that some one in a hurry will overlook the vessel little vessel in the corner (I do this often myself)

Not really because unless the system has other alien ships in it will show an alien presence on the galaxy map in that system

[Renegade 13]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
Why not use hot-pink as a background then? It will certainly make the ships stand out

***Quietly turns into the corner and pukes***

[David E. Gervais]

how about this,.. replace the 'mini' pics of the ships with different sized asteroid cluster bitmaps. When the enemy enters a system, they will just think it has a bunch of asteroid fields. (hehehe, boy will they get a surprise when they try to mine them. )

It might even take them a few turns before they realise that some of the asteroid fields are moving.

Cheers!