ship designs boring and too similar

[Suicide Junkie]

Bolts don't track, they only lead...
So, if you're far enough away, any changes in heading or speed by the other vessel can cause your whole volley to miss.

When I'm being chased by an angry squadron of meson bLaster carrying fighters in my mod, a series of zig-zags helps reduce the damage since when I zig, the bolts already in space are leading against my zag
In practical terms, at best I can avoid maybe a half to a third of the fighter swarm's attack. Against a single ship with a single incoming fire vector, I can do much better

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You can't change the length of beams... They have fit the distance between your ship and the enemy...
Moddable duration would be very nice, and I'm suggesting it now.

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Any weapon will fit only in slots where the component says it is allowed.
Go to main_components.txt, and just add the names of other slots to the comma-separated list of allowed placement locations.

Or, you could just make a second "Heavy Mount" component, that is identical except that it fits in heavy wepaon slots, does double damage and is 50% bigger

Which, incidentally is what I did for my mod...

[Suicide Junkie]

Originally posted by macjimmy:
Another question:
Several component types from SEIV that took awhile to research are avaliable pretty much from the start. The engines are the main thing I'm thinking about here. In SEIV, quantum engines represent quite a bit of research. In SF, they are available from the start. Is there any way to change this, so that certain components are only available for sale after a certain stardate, or something along those lines?

There is a minimum level setting in the components.
Currently, the main difficulty in getting the advanced engines is price and simply them not showing up very often in stores.

You could also make some of them extremely rare by only giving them out as payment after particularily difficult missions.
Perhaps a "deliver-the-scientist" type mission.

[ October 11, 2003, 01:45: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

[clark]

Engines... or certain stuff can be modded to appear based on skill level (experience).

There is a percentage chance for appearance in the spacedocks... play with that.

edit-beat to the punch

[ October 11, 2003, 01:45: Message edited by: clark ]

[macjimmy]

Doh, I forgot to check your mod out... I bet most of the stuff I'm talking about is in your mod in one way or another already
I've got it downloaded, but I was going to finish the game first. Now I want to go try it

[Suicide Junkie]

My mod uses the stock campaign, and just alters the physics.

As such, it'll either be an alternate for campaign 1, or a huge pile of spoilers depending on your point of view

[Phoenix-D]

Sj, I was mainly refering to how beams can go wild and are effected by ECM in that comment. Bolts aren't. Don't move? You WILL get hit.

[Rollo]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
That EEE destroyer was pretty nifty too.

true, there is a lot of stuff to resurrect (and so little time...)
Currently I am running into problems. Starfury gives me an invalid floating point operation and have no clue why