Proposed Damage System Overhaul

[Captain Kwok]

You can also limit more simply than Fyron's example - look and see how engines are restricted in VehicleSizes.txt - you can do that for any component or ability.

[Kamog]

Is emissive armor and the other special armor types working properly in SEV?

[Barnacle Bill]

Are shields & armor at all dirrectional in SE5?

If not, what might get close to what I want would be to limit ships to one each but have "mounts" that can be used to put heavier armor/shielding on bigger ships.

I'd still like shield strength to remain constant until/unless the shield generator (inside the armor) gets hit, though.

[Suicide Junkie]

Crystalline ability was abused to make leaky shields like that in SE4, and it works the same way in SE5.

Directional armor can be made thusly:
http://imagemodserver.mine.nu/other/...d_NewArmor.png

Shields are global.

[Ragnarok-X]

nice!

[Kamog]

Thanks, SJ, so to make it directional the armor is placed in the "outer" slots instead of the "armor" slots?

[Suicide Junkie]

Yep.

I renamed the slots a little, so the outermost outer hull slots are named "Starboard Edge" and such. That should hopefully make it easier on the AI if anyone wants to write some.

[Phoenix-D]

SJ: And to think people complained about too much clicking in *stock*.

[Suicide Junkie]

Well, that IS the biggest hull in the game aside from stationary superfortresses.

And I did use lots of 20cm armor plates instead of a smaller number of bigger plates for the aesthetical effect. And it does all fit on that one deck, aside from three or four PD guns which I dropped to deck 2.

[Elsemeravin]

Suicide Junkie said:
Yep.

I renamed the slots a little, so the outermost outer hull slots are named "Starboard Edge" and such.

I'm still wondering how you can decide that the damage become directional. I (wrongly?) thought that damage was randomly (hardcoded) dealt to armor then to random Outer Hull component and then to random Inner Hull component.

Do you know something we simple mortals ignore ?