Armor Regeneration Question

[Lord Kodos]

hmm... while we are on the subject, can one set the Regen value to something negative, and have a component damage itself between combat? Then we could make unstable components and stuff.

[Suicide Junkie]

Negative numbers tend to wrap around to insanely large. (~64k)

[Lord Kodos]

But would it work? Like for LR mod I want to make a Reactor that is very potent, but highly unstable and is breaking up from the moment you build it.

[Suicide Junkie]

No, -1 would be changed to a few hundred above 64,000 regen points.

[Lord Kodos]

Lmao. And you know how afterburners give combat movement? If i set that ability to negative would it still go all flippy outty?

[Loser]

Sounds like the string parser that read the text files properly interprets the negative numbers, and stores them in an appropriate twos-complement format. Then the game takes the twos-complement negative number, and treats it like an unsigned integer. Negative one would become 65,535.

Of course, anyone reading this who understands the term "two-complement" also already knew what was happening and had no need for my explanation. Sorry.

[Loser]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
They do not all have to be "armor" componenents, you know.

That's what I'm thinking, man.