Honor Harrington Mod Discussion

[Sinapus]

Originally posted by oleg:
Little off topic: Do you guys know that "On Basilisk Station" and "The Honor of the Queen" are available free for download from http://www.baen.com/library/ ?

The Free Library is hosted by the official Baen Books publishing company. It is not pirate.

No, it's more like drug pushing. "The first ones are free..."

[Dead Meat]

War of Honor was good. I like it.

[Urendi Maleldil]

I'm not familiar with the Honor Harrington series. Tell me about the story and technology.

[oleg]

Well, I obviously like it a lot. You can read first two books ,On Basilisk Station and Honor Of The Queen, free on-line :
http://www.baen.com/library/

[oleg]

For the lack of responces by others I post a short review of the first H.H. novel that I found onthe net. I hope it will heat up your interest :

"So far there are eight books in this series. Each one is perfect and while they could be read independent of each other I would recommend tackling them in sequence if you want to maximize your enjoyment. The eight titles are, "On Basilisk Station", "The Honor of the Queen", "The Short Victorious War", "Field of Dishonor", "Flag in Exile", "Honor Among Enemies", "In Enemy Hands" and "Ashes of Victory".
The feel of the books is quite similar to David Feintuch's Nicholas Seafort series. It is set in the far distant future amongst a competing variety of human empires. Each empire controls an area of space including its stars and planets. Honor Harrington is a member of the Royal Manticoran Navy, charged with the protection of the realm in service to the queen. In the first book Honor is a commander in charge of a smallish space craft. She has been sent to purgatory, (Basilisk Station), as an indirect result of physically rejecting the advances of one of the aristocracy while in the academy, years before.
To make matters worse, her ship is carrying an experimental weapon, to the exclusion of most others, which has just amply shown its shortcomings during Navy maneuvers. Her crew is embarrassed by their recent performance in the exercise and many of them blame Honor for this as well as the posting to Basilisk. Furthermore, when her ship arrives at Basilisk her old enemy is the Captain in charge and promptly leaves the system for questionable repairs, dumping the responsibility of the whole area in Honor's lap with only one small ship to carry it out.
The rest of the story takes us through Honor's efforts to turn things around in the face of an ever worsening situation. We learn to love her as she holds true to the best principles that most people can only talk about. The other characters are well defined and the details of the politics and human dynamics are smooth. A further pleasure is the well thought out military scenarios. The weaponry and craft performance has been designed by Weber to provide a diverse yet plausible array of military confrontations.
Luckily for us, the readers, this future has made available a medical treatment that extends the lifetime of its citizens many fold. For this reason I look forward to many more novels from David Weber, leading me further into the life of Honor Harrington."

[Puke]

BUMP. I say, BUMP!

I have not been on this forum in ages, im down to one pbw game that I am actually playing in, and I have no free time. I have a GritTech mod 2/3s of the way to an alpha release, and will probably be begging for help once it is stable enough to play.

but unlike the Stones, time is not on my side. I dont have time to play my game, work on my mod, or read this forum.

But my mind keeps wandering back to the HH mod, and hoping that in another month I will again be able to play lots and lots of SE4. Where is the HH mod? any luck? still progressing? Is there any community support if P-D has gotten weary of beating his head against it? This mod sounds awesome! I want to see it, and play it!

[Phoenix-D]

I'm having difficulties, and decided not to post any more until I have a playable Version.

I'm also waiting on the next patch, because of the bug with Quad to Shields and Quarter to Shields weapons. The energy weapons are all Quad to Shields, and the Energy TORPS are quarter, to simulate the energy torps not having much effect on ships with sidewalls. However, a bug in SE4 means that these weapons do 4 times and 1/4 times their listed damage *all the time*, instead of just to shields. That and the ships keep behaving quite oddly in my tests, and I haven't resolved how I'm modeling the laser-head missiles.

Phoenix-D

[PvK]

The shield damage factors are supposed to be fixed in the next patch, thankfully.

[Phoenix-D]

Which is why I said I was waiting for the next patch

The truth of the matter is I got frustrated, and haven't more than fiddled with it since then. Semester break is coming up though, so I'll try to get something done.

Phoenix-D

[Phoenix-D]

Put a fork in it, it's done.

I have now exausted my abilities to work with SE4 on this. If anyone else wants to try, you're welcome.

The problem is the disparity in ship sizes. Light Cruisers are 200kt, SDs are 8000kt. This means I have to use mounts, in order to keep the space used for drives and brige, LS, etc fair.

SE4's mount system rounds down. This means with the size reductions I have to use, many components end up being zero KT in size.

Another problem is the SDs behave oddly. I filled them with just my drive system and the normal components, and they had the problems I described earlier in the thread- fire one salvo then refuse to do much of anything. Knocking the size down to BBs, and everything works fine..so I have to conclude these 8000kt behemoths are just too much for SE4 to handle. 17 shield generators, 40 Armor components, 30 APB XIIIs, 5000 shield regeneration from damage, etc etc etc..too much stuff for the engine to track.

Phoenix-D