Planet Abilities

[Wenin]

Is it possible to have planets with more than one ability?

[Suicide Junkie]

Multiple abilities are easy to add in the map editor.
Randomly generated planets only get zero or one abilities, though.

[Randallw]

I practically never make use of the special abilities of planets as they are usually useless. 10% extra mining is no use when the planet has only a concentration of 8 in the first place. That said I did have trouble with an enemy planet in one game because it cancelled out the shields of my attacking fleet.

[Suicide Junkie]

Oh.

What you might try, is specifying storms in the same sector as the planet in systemtypes.txt

The storms can then contribute extra sector-effects, such as shield disruption/boosting, damage, cloaking, etc.

[Fyron]

Randallw said:
10% extra mining is no use when the planet has only a concentration of 8 in the first place.

If you are refering to the facility ability placed on a planet object itself, this does not actually work.

[Wenin]

The only abilities you can give to a planet are those abilities usable in the StellarAbilityTypes.txt file?

[Captain Kwok]

Yep.

[Fyron]

There are a select few that can be added, such as cargo storage.

[Wenin]

Cargo storage is really through the properties of the planet, and not an ability. Right?

[Fyron]

There is a cargo storage ability that increases the cargo space of the planet. It is used in the stock game by the cargo facility.

[Wenin]

http://se4modding.spaceempires.net/ModdingTutorial.html#Chapter16



Cargo Storage
Value1 = Number of cargo spaces generated.
Value2 =
Valid in Components.txt, Facility.txt, VehicleSize.txt

This vehicle can store units with a combined total mass less than or equal to Value1. Multiple components with this ability form one continuous cargo bay, so two components can hold a unit bigger than any one individual component could.




That should be updated with StellarAbilityTypes.txt or did you mean by it being added after map generation?

[wake_of_angels]

The best way is to try, don't think so?
I tried with point generation and it seems to work (facility abilities) and I don't know about sensors abilities...

[Wenin]

Written communication isn't exact, as my first post didn't indicate any "testing". However the truth is that I did try some testing and couldn't get it to work. Last effort was seeing if it was possible and I just didn't know how to do it.

[Fyron]

Cargo Storage works perfectly as an ability on planets in StellarAbilityTypes.txt.

Hmm... never thought to test the Generate Points abilities. Too bad they are not tallied anywhere. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif