Any way to list enemy ships?

Ragnarok · #1 January 27th, 2003, 07:04 AM

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Originally posted by desdinova:
actually there is talk of an invisible shipset. not sure if it has already been made or not.

Yeah, it has been made. Do a search for it and you will find it. I'm too tired to do it myself. So I am leaving now...

Desdinova · #2 January 27th, 2003, 07:09 AM

of course they are located at area 51.

tbontob · #3 January 27th, 2003, 08:23 AM

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Originally posted by Krsqk:
...Except that everyone would replace your shipset with one resembling a glowing white box the minute they had to squint to find your ships. I think this already happens fairly frequently on PBW.

Krsqk, I have come across one of those "hard to see shipsets."

How do I replace it with another shipset or "glowing white box"?

The only way I found this ship was to use the play movement log.

Will · #4 January 27th, 2003, 08:37 AM

It's fairly simple to replace ships with a "glowing white box". Just open up the small ship pictures in MSPaint or your editor of choice, and make it all white. Glowing white box.

couslee · #5 January 27th, 2003, 11:26 AM

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Originally posted by Will:
It's fairly simple to replace ships with a "glowing white box". Just open up the small ship pictures in MSPaint or your editor of choice, and make it all white. Glowing white box.

If you change the shipset from other players, that don't have any buggy effects with PBW? (because of the save you upload).
If not, then if a player didn't want to bother with DLing someone else's shipset, couldn't they just copy an AI set and change the name to match the "new" one?

PvK · #6 January 27th, 2003, 11:33 AM

It would have zero effect on PBW. Modding the images only affects what you see on your own computer.

As for not bothering to DL a set, you can do that, but it would be more work, because you would need to rename all the files, too. Although, a program or batch file could be made to do this.

PvK

Pablo · #7 January 27th, 2003, 01:56 PM

If you do not want to download shipsets, you can just leave everything as it is and let the game choose a stock shipset for those races. The problem is that the shipsets may change everytime you load a turn. What I mean is when you load a turn and one player used a shipset which you do not have on your computer, the game will choose (random?) a stock shipset for that race. Next time when you load a turn, the same race may be using a different stock shipset. You can live with that of course but... There are people putting lots of effort in making a nice-looking shipset for others' playing pleasure so I think that 100 kbytes is worth downloading.