specific questions

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Drag the ones you use most closer to the top in VehicleSize. You will get "separated types" where low-tech freighters are positioned between Frigates and Destroyers whereas the biggest freighters are positioned between the Assault Super-Dreadnought and the Light Battleship, but it would work.

Also, you could try sorting the ship sizes according to size. That would mean that more advanced ships would be at the top of the list - assuming more advanced means bigger, it doesn't have to be, since Lvl 3 Frigate Construction could give you 500kT Heavy Assault Frigates and 250kT Hunter Frigates, but the Hunter has built-in ECM/CS.

[Atrocities]

This is an interesting modding discussion, do any of you mind if I later on copy and paste your responses to the Mod Works over on SE.net?

[Slick]

Unfortunately, you can't add a new damage type such as "only planet destroyers". You are stuck with the ones in the game.

[Zereth]

However, couldn't you get rid of some lesser-used item which has an "Only X" damage type for it, and add that as a dummy ability to start destorying components, then change the description on the Only X weapon you've jsut co-opted to say it targets star destroyers?

[douglas]

Slick said:
Unfortunately, you can't add a new damage type such as "only planet destroyers". You are stuck with the ones in the game.

And it just so happens that "Only Planet Destroyers" is in the list of valid damage types at the top of components.txt.

[Slick]

douglas said:

And it just so happens that "Only Planet Destroyers" is in the list of valid damage types at the top of components.txt.

I stand sorta corrected. I sure didn't know that was there. I know you can't add new damage types, but you are absolutely right that "only planet destroyers" is certainly there as a valid damage type. I wonder why the stock game uses all the other damage types except that one. Strange.

edit: wrong again, the double, half, and quarter damage to shields also isn't used in the stock game either.

[Frederick_d_Ohlmann]

Atrocities said:
This is an interesting modding discussion, do any of you mind if I later on copy and paste your responses to the Mod Works over on SE.net?

No problem.