Proposed Damage System Overhaul

[Barnacle Bill]

Are shields & armor at all dirrectional in SE5?

If not, what might get close to what I want would be to limit ships to one each but have "mounts" that can be used to put heavier armor/shielding on bigger ships.

I'd still like shield strength to remain constant until/unless the shield generator (inside the armor) gets hit, though.

[Suicide Junkie]

Crystalline ability was abused to make leaky shields like that in SE4, and it works the same way in SE5.

Directional armor can be made thusly:
http://imagemodserver.mine.nu/other/...d_NewArmor.png

Shields are global.

[Ragnarok-X]

nice!

[Kamog]

Thanks, SJ, so to make it directional the armor is placed in the "outer" slots instead of the "armor" slots?

[Suicide Junkie]

Yep.

I renamed the slots a little, so the outermost outer hull slots are named "Starboard Edge" and such. That should hopefully make it easier on the AI if anyone wants to write some.

[Phoenix-D]

SJ: And to think people complained about too much clicking in *stock*.

[Suicide Junkie]

Well, that IS the biggest hull in the game aside from stationary superfortresses.

And I did use lots of 20cm armor plates instead of a smaller number of bigger plates for the aesthetical effect. And it does all fit on that one deck, aside from three or four PD guns which I dropped to deck 2.

[Elsemeravin]

Suicide Junkie said:
Yep.

I renamed the slots a little, so the outermost outer hull slots are named "Starboard Edge" and such.

I'm still wondering how you can decide that the damage become directional. I (wrongly?) thought that damage was randomly (hardcoded) dealt to armor then to random Outer Hull component and then to random Inner Hull component.

Do you know something we simple mortals ignore ?

[Phoenix-D]

Play the demo, watch the combat. Armor damage isn't directional, but damage to the Inner and Outer hulls IS.

SJ gets around that by not giving his armor the "armor" attribute.

[Elsemeravin]

I've seen your post on official forums and learned that Inner and Outter hull were damage directional.

Then it becomes easy to understand.

But then it means the ship map is strategically very important.