Pointer Mod -- v1.2 Released

Ed Kolis · #1 January 12th, 2005, 07:57 PM

Any chance of an upcoming PBW test game?

Urendi Maleldil · #2 January 13th, 2005, 05:08 PM

That's something I'd really like to do. I'll see what I can put together. Bear in mind that I've never used PBW before and I don't have a constant conection to the internet, so the game might go a little slow. I actually use various free wireless access points around the city.

It'll be good to see what real people can do with this mod. It'll be a welcome change from the AI, who are only effective at making you pull your own hair out by the roots.

Urendi Maleldil · #3 January 14th, 2005, 08:01 PM

AI success!!

The AI is now puttering aroung the galaxy, exploring, and doing what the AI does. They handle resources poorly and their tactical prowess is atrocious, but they work.

Although for some reason they insist on putting Scout Infantry on all their ships. That's a troop component. I have no idea why they do that. Another day, another problem.

Atrocities · #4 January 14th, 2005, 09:33 PM

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Urendi Maleldil said:
AI success!!

The AI is now puttering aroung the galaxy, exploring, and doing what the AI does. They handle resources poorly and their tactical prowess is atrocious, but they work.

Welcome to my world. I tell you if I could get the damn Ai to work right, I would kiss them.

Fyron · #5 January 15th, 2005, 04:20 AM

This is because it has the same family number as a ship component. You must _never_ have the same family numbers on such families of vehicle-specific components. The AI is very stupid and interprets that Scout Infantry as the most advanced Version of the family of components that it really wants to use on the ship.

This problem will also manifest itself in some very quirky upgrade bugs.

Urendi Maleldil · #6 January 17th, 2005, 06:12 PM

New updates. The next release we'll call "Version 1.0." Yes. I know the Last Versions were all called "Version 0.9" but I'm not a programmer and usually don't pay attention to things like that. I want to clean a fe more things up for "Version 1.0." Then we'll start a PBW game to test everything out. I think I figured that PBW thing out. Just let me know what ship set you want to use and I'll put them in the mod for the PBW game.

Here are the latest updates. Drones are now more like ordinance.

1/16/05
added drone mounts
reduced size of Drones and Tactical Drones
renamed Drone Launcher to Drone Magazine
changed cargo capacity of Drone Magazine to match new drone sizes
reduced size of Drone Computer Core
fixed scale mounts (wasn't with Antimatter Impulse Engine)
increased size of 2150kt Baseship hull
added specialty mounts for use on ships that use normal weapon sizes
changed "Vehicle List Type Override" to "Vechicle List Type Override" (the correct spelling doesn't work, but the typo does)
removed Motivation Unit (my Version was dumb anyway)
removed Scout Infantry (was showing up on ship, base, sat, and weapon platform AI designs for some reason)

Urendi Maleldil · #7 January 18th, 2005, 06:55 PM

Here's the Version 1.0 update. There are only two AI races that work and I haven't converted the Default AI or the Neutrals, so stick with multiplayer for now unless you just want to explore the mod. You'll need the latest Version of the Image Mod, the Neo-standard, and Fyron's Quadrant Mod Deluxe installed to your normal SE4 directory.

1/18/04
added Engineering Replicator II-V
reduced size of all Electronics to 1/3
removed Fighter and Drone Electronics mounts (no longer needed)
added "Vehicle Size Maximum := 99" to Fighter mounts

Post here if you want to participate in the PBW game. Let's see how many players we'll have.

Ed Kolis · #8 January 18th, 2005, 07:57 PM

Mesa do! Mesa do!