component question for vet moders

[Puke]

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Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
Component order DOES matter.

Let's say you have 5 Armor components, all the same family, and one life support.
Armor V
Armor I
Armor III
Armor II
Life Support
Armor IV

..if you go into the game, full tech, and hit "latest components" you will see Armor II and armor IV, with the life support in between. Move the life support past armor IV, and you see only armor Iv.

Phoenix-D

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cool, thats what i thought. I guess i will have to test it to see what that does to the regenerative ability.

[Phoenix-D]

It shouldn't affect the abilities, no. The AI may not use it right- if it replaces the bridge, LS, and quarters, the AI will still put crew quarters and LS on the ship along with it.

Phoenix-D

[Puke]

the AI is definitly not going to be able to handle this mod. its being designed from the begining as a multiplayer, humans only, mod. on the otherhand, i am trying to keep the interface and operation clean so anybody can jump right into it without having to work around bugs or limitations of the game.

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[Suicide Junkie]

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the problem is, even if all these are set to zero, only the Last one in the list displays (when listing latest components). since i have about a billion other things to do to get PCM going, and since i thought others might like to steal this idea, thought i would ask here rather than try to fix it myself.

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For help, see how I did the same sort of thing in P&N.

In my case, it was much more complex, since I was combining multiple abilities, many compatible with each other. I've got 6 crew quarters components, for example.

In my setup, there is a clear heirarchy of which components are better than which, so When you "show only latest" only the best available will appear. Bridge vs LS vs CQ components don't cover each other up.

The only disadvantage of this method is that you cannot continue a game saved under any other mod (including SE4 original), due to ship design corruption.

If you try, you will suddenly find your ships have tachyon sensors for engines, a bridge made of Crystalline Armor, and WaveMotion Guns in the place of armor plating. Makes for a great bonanza of analysable tech .

EDIT: Forgot to attach the file

[This message has been edited by suicide_junkie (edited 03 November 2001).]

[AJC]

whoops...I guess thats because I've never placed new components in between existing Groups of components and never caused them to go out of order. But I was under the impression family , tech level and vehicle type was controling where components displayed in the design window, not the order in the components file..oh well I guess that makes sense.



[This message has been edited by AJC (edited 03 November 2001).]