Big List of Mods & Stuff - ok, fine comments too.

[Ed Kolis]

Playing this mod I once came across a Fazrah Destroyer with NO WEAPONS (Well ok it had a PD laser ) I also came across crystalline armor being sold at an Amonkrie dock ... and it seems that all the alien ships have twice as many weapon hardpoints as the Terran ships! (They also get built-in crew!) - OK, I know, you haven't got to modding them yet!

Now don't you always say not to put too many reactors and have some energy storage instead? The AI ships are FILLED with reactors and have no energy storage whatsoever! And not even the big reactors, but the smaller, less space-efficient reactors...

[Suicide Junkie]

I won't pretend to be a great AI modder.

I havent seen a way to control how many reactors the AIs use... I think they may just fill until they run out of space or manage to generate more than they can use.

I don't mind as long as they get the components they need almost all of the time.
I don't have the time or skill in this area to run down (what looks like) diminishing returns.

I might get some of the double reactors placed on the AI ships, but I don't want to make it too easy for the player to pick up huge reactors continuously...

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Neutral and alien docks very occasionally have rare items, such as that armor. If you want lots of it, visit the race it is associated with for the greatest chance of finding it.

[ October 27, 2003, 23:42: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

[Phoenix-D]

SJ, the reactors a race uses are set in enemies.txt. If you go into the P&N one and change all the

Race 1 Number of Reactors := 1
Race 1 Reactor 1 Class := Power Reactor (Double)
Race 1 Reactor 1 Chance := 100
Race 1 Reactor 1 Inc Chance Per Difficulty := 0
Race 1 Reactor 1 Inc Chance Per Level := 0

entries so they say Power Reactor (Double) or have two reactors, they'll use them.

[Suicide Junkie]

Yes, I know:
I might get some of the double reactors placed on the AI ships, but I don't want to make it too easy for the player to pick up huge reactors continuously...
The problem is the AI will still fill the ships to the brim with reactors, and now the player will have a bonanza of double reactors which will make the singles completely useles..

[Phoenix-D]

Sorry, misread the how many comment.

I think the dropped components are determined by the random component drop text file, and not by what components are on the actual ships, though.

[Suicide Junkie]

There may be extras, but the components on the ship most definitely do get scattered when the ship dies...

Notice how toxin injectors leave 0% damage components in the rubble? And how if you do some damage to armor before killing a ship, it drops armor that is partially damaged?
That's what I'm talking about

[Phoenix-D]

Ah, bleh. That would be right. Hmm, how to avoid that..can't even make AI only components, like in SE4.