Major Modification

[SirDarwin]

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Originally posted by Jubala:
As for this little modproject, I think it will be interesting, but I can't help thinking it would be easier to make a mod of Webers and Whites (they wrote them together) starfire books that Dutch mentioned.

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Oh sure it might be easier, but I've never read those, and enjoyed the 10 books that I have read!

[Phoenix-D]

The only other problem- and the reason I'm waiting to try this- is the bomb-pumped missile warheads and missile pods. Drones would be PERFECT for those, but they aren't in the game.. best we could do would be modified fighters:make the cockpit the weapon, that fills up the entire fighter, and change the graphics.. then use the "destroyed when fired" attribute from the planet killers.

Oh, and the Solarian Leage's attitdude might be hard to model as well :-) (for those who don't know, if someone bombards a planet without first asking for surrender, they destroy the offending navy. It's the only thing the Leauge DOESN'T bicker about; it's automatic and written into their constitusion)

Phoenix-D

[Noble713]

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Originally posted by Jubala:
As for this little modproject, I think it will be interesting, but I can't help thinking it would be easier to make a mod of Webers and Whites (they wrote them together) starfire books that Dutch mentioned.

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Already on it. I've got almost all of the components working. I haven't added satellite energy weapons yet, and I don't think datalink, anti-laser armor, and laser torpedo warheads are possible, but just about everything else is there. I've tested the weapons in combat and the battles are short and brutal, just like in the books.

I've also made 3 or 4 ships for the Terran Federation's shipset, but they need some work.

[SirDarwin]

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Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
The only other problem- and the reason I'm waiting to try this- is the bomb-pumped missile warheads and missile pods. Drones would be PERFECT for those, but they aren't in the game.. best we could do would be modified fighters:make the cockpit the weapon, that fills up the entire fighter, and change the graphics.. then use the "destroyed when fired" attribute from the planet killers.

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Thats actually not a bad idea for now, until we get the drones, and it won't be too hard to implement...I think...I'll try it out now and see how it works in combat

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Oh, and the Solarian Leage's attitdude might be hard to model as well :-) (for those who don't know, if someone bombards a planet without first asking for surrender, they destroy the offending navy. It's the only thing the Leauge DOESN'T bicker about; it's automatic and written into their constitusion)

Phoenix-D

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Yeah, unfortunetly I think that'd be more a engine thing, and not something that can be done with text files Although I wonder if in a scenario it might be possible, on a random chance (if you kill the navy and all the people on the planet, whos around to tell about it that a "new" navy could show up in the game, being at war with which ever navy has been blowing up planets...its a idea, when we find out what we can do with the scenario editor

[darkserra]

Wow, I thought I was the only one that had thoughts of editing SE to reflect both HH and Starfire!

I didn't get very far, but it would interesting if someone actually did it! Weber's books are some of my favorite fiction, esp. HH!

[SirDarwin]

Well I started work on my Missile Pods and unfortunetly it seems even with out any engines they still get a movement of 1...which I guess could be the ship towing them

[SirDarwin]

Hrm forgot to hit the submit button their Last time....
Ok well missile pods are nasty I can defenitly see how the opening salvo would be very, very nasty.

Also the drone bitmap seems to fit them well.