Log for Chat With Aaron

[Combat Wombat]

The log is available here at my site, there is a link in the first news post.

http://www.secenter.org/

[Randallw]

I take exception to Australia being called a prison colony, well I....oh wait my ancestor came over as a convict in the first fleet http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Edit: If the Australian distributors did bad does that make me an accesory. Maybe it runs in the family.

[pujal]

Read the bit after I left. Towards the end it seemed like he really wanted to get out of there, lol.

[Atrocities]

I have a confession to make. I was Aaron. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif I logged on using a remote accessed hijacked IP and a second computer and pretended to be Malfador. The chat was meant to be a big aprils fools practicle joke but I got the dates mixed up.

[Combat Wombat]

pujal said:
Read the bit after I left. Towards the end it seemed like he really wanted to get out of there, lol.



Sorry about not getting your question in http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif I didn't think he would leave so quickly and with such little warning I thought he'd say something like I will take 2 more questions and then I have to go but he didn't http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

[pujal]

Rereading it, I think we kinda cornered him with some of those questions. My suggestion for the next one would be to keep the questions light-hearted.

Np about my question, I saw that you did ask at the end.

[Caduceus]

That's why I tried to toss in a couple of "softball" questions.

I'm not heavy into the UI and modding, so while I am interested in what you guys are asking, I'm not able to come up with such questions!

[NullAshton]

I see you linked to your site itself, and not directly to the file... sneaky advertising, there.

[AAshbery76]

Not one question about the features the expansion might have. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Raapys]

Probably too early to even start thinking about for Aaron. Still, an expansion announcement for this type of game is great news, since it's (most probably)not like other expansions where you just get a few new maps and units, but actual gameplay features instead.

[AAshbery76]

It was interesting the lack of communication between Aaron and his beta testers, he didn't know anything about saves being sent for instance by his core testers.

[Kana]

So anyone try to mod the component slots yet?


[20:58] Combat_Wombat: ekolis asks: Any chance of being able to mod the decks of ships (add/remove decks in mod datafiles, perhaps based on ship size) and the component layers (inner/outer/armor)?
[20:59] Malfador: You can mod the component layers now. The decks requires a change in the UI.
[20:59] ekolis: you CAN mod the component layers eh...
[21:00] Malfador: Can't you??
[21:00] FyronAtSchool: SJ has modded slot types for his GGMod, IIRC
[21:00] SuicideJunkie: As far as I can tell, only the layout can be edited... you can't mod in engine slots, for example.
[21:01] Malfador: You should be able to mod in any kind of slots you want.
[21:01] SuicideJunkie: There are only three names in the mainstrings.txt, however.
[21:01] AtrocitiesPCP: To bad the slots are all automated or have automated tags so that when you click on a compoents, it is added to the hull in the correct location
[21:02] ekolis: too bad - that would be a timesaver if he could do that
Malfador: Somebody try to mod the component slots, and then send me an example of what's not working.

[Phoenix-D]

It doesn't work. You go to open a ship type with the new slots and it says: "Unknown Value "Engine" for Slot 3 Ship Section in record "Frigate Layout".

Emailed my attempt and a description to MM.

[Captain Kwok]

The MainStrings.txt file doesn't support the names for new slots and that is probably the cause of the error.

[Phoenix-D]

Probably. I did add new entries to the file, but they were ignored.