Component Enhancement Moding Questions

Gaurav · #1 March 14th, 2002, 03:21 AM

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Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
Adding tech requirements to component mounts was voted into the top 25% in a prioritized list of things to add in a future patch. There are still a lot of things ahead of it, so be patient.

Where is this vote?

Grayhorse · #2 March 14th, 2002, 04:07 AM

IM just glad that they are going to look at adjusting this with an upcoming patch. It will add a little more realism to the game. It will also make research more valuable.

On a side note, another thing that would be cool is weapon arcs. Do similar to like Star Trek FE, where based upon where weapons were mounted on a ship, they could fire to the left right, front arc and so on.

Deathstalker · #3 March 14th, 2002, 04:48 AM

Weapon Arc's would be WAY cool, perhaps something like they were in Moo2, bigger tonnage for the weapon that has a 360 arc vs say a 45 arc from the front. Only problem would be perhaps the AI, havn't played gold yet (hopfully soon when MM gets my check and ships

) but the AI used to have problems with weapons (ie, shoot then move in closer, imagine what it would do if it had rear arc weapons, move in and then realize it could only shoot behind itself. That and the combat engine would have to be re-written to allow ship turning to cost movement points.........geeze, maybe more of a problem then I thought.....but nice to dream about

.)

HEMAN · #4 March 14th, 2002, 08:12 AM

HEY DEATHSTALKER?,This is the first mode i installed,played it 3 times,this shouldve been the default for se4 gold?, i enjoy your comp mode alot, makes a difference specially in more ship designs, ai uses them quite alot too. some are quite expensive, but i can live with it. How about adding more on to it?, maybe add a mount or two, for fighters some sort of way?,.

Ferengi Rules of Acquisition # 229 Latinum Lasts longer then lust.

[ 14 March 2002: Message edited by: HEMAN ]

Grayhorse · #5 March 14th, 2002, 04:00 PM

Very true Death Stalker. But look at it this way. We can dream the perfect dream on it. This game is so much like FE, its not funny. Thats what I like so much about it.

Maybe with future patches, we will be able to do this type of modding.

Suicide Junkie · #6 March 14th, 2002, 04:01 PM

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Weapon Arc's would be WAY cool, perhaps something like they were in Moo2, bigger tonnage for the weapon that has a 360 arc vs say a 45 arc from the front

The best way to simulate a firing arc would probably be by tweaking the accuracy.
More flexible mounts would be larger/lower damage.

+50% for hemisphere coverage
+25% for wide coverage
+00% for normal coverage
-25% for narrow coverage
-50% for locked aim.
(Values are arbitrary)

Deathstalker · #7 March 14th, 2002, 08:01 PM

S_J, as usual you have a great idea

Will have to think about this for future modds, just a shame that mounts cannot be 'stacked' (ie, an Extended Range-Hemisphere-T.A.G-Wavemotion gun.....

). Only way to do the stacked thing would be to make multiple copies that have combined abilities I guess.

HEMAN, thanks, loved making that modd. Still play non-gold with it (don't have gold....yet). As to fighter mounts, sure, could be done easy and I will look into it. (lookin into drone mounts as well). My favorite things to do with the mount modd is to have a colony ship right off the bat with miniturized cargo holds, that way you can carry double the amount of pop to a planet. That and minaturizing the space ship yard, that way you can have ship yard space component on Destroyer size ships!! (IIRC).

Most (if not all) the ideas existed in some format or another I just tweaked them the way I thought they should work and made up some myself. (S_J was the inspiration for the Gatling mounts, Dave's Mod was the inspiration for the Spinal Mount and Imperiator Fyron and I hammered out the spec's for the T.A.G mount IIRC).

Have fun!