Ascendancy Mod Idea (need some help)

douglas · #1 October 21st, 2004, 10:43 PM

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Starhawk said:
Light Pulse Cannon: The standard Terrenesi ship mounted weapon on ships Light Cruiser and below, this weapon is especially accurate do to it's rapid rate of fire (I'll give combat bonuses to the ship carrying it to simulate this)

Bad idea. That would allow putting just one of these on a ship to increase accuracy of all the other weapons. Luckily, there's the "Weapon Modifier" field which gives a to-hit bonus just to that weapon.

Starhawk · #2 October 21st, 2004, 10:53 PM

Oooh your right thanks

that saved my butt there eh hehe.

Well though that wouldn't have been much of a big deal since the only ships that can mount Light Pulse Cannons can't mount heavier Versions.
But again your right about the accuracy problem though, thanks

Fyron · #3 October 21st, 2004, 11:01 PM

Make certain to add a dummy ability (such as Star - Unstable) to _all_ weapons with a combat modifier, with a description mentioning the bonus/penalty to hit. The combat modifier does not appear in descriptions of the component in-game, unfortunately.

Starhawk · #4 October 21st, 2004, 11:08 PM

Could you write a sample of what you mean, like I said my though processes are a little slow because of this damn cold.

Fyron · #5 October 21st, 2004, 11:16 PM

Sure.

Take a look in the Data files of Adamant Mod, and search for the Wave - Motion Gun. Note that it has a new ability.

Adamant Mod Data Files - (562 KB)

Note that I figure it would be easier to refer you to Adamant for many of these things, as some 90% of your modding questions so far have examples in Adamant...

Starhawk · #6 October 21st, 2004, 11:29 PM

Thanks

that'll help me with a few of my new weapons.

Ed Kolis · #7 October 22nd, 2004, 12:54 PM

For the fire rate of the Light Pulse Cannon, have you considered just upping the load time of the larger weapons? In other words, instead of the base load time for all weapons being 1, make it 2 or 3... then you wouldn't even have to mess with the accuracy bonus, you'd just set the LPC's load time to something smaller...

edit: this would also help ships survive longer in combat, making such things as shield regenerators and boarding parties (not to mention just plain maneuvering) more useful!