Narf's Mod: Almost done shredding the Facility.txt. Basic stuff only.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

thanks, was just wondering if there was anything special i needed to do.

[Ed Kolis]

random comments-o-doom

What's the point of researching new weapons tech when it only gets more expensive and bulkier at the same rate that the damage and range increase? Is all armor going to be emissive in this mod?

You seem to be missing a newline between medium energy engines 17 and 18 in components.txt, that might screw up the game...

... ... 20 levels of engine mounts for EACH hull type??? I seriously hope that file is program generated!

What's to, eh, keep people from cheating with the engine mounts on larger hulls? It's rather easy to forget to mount your engines

All those hulls... aren't they really going to clog up the hull list?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
random comments-o-doom

What's the point of researching new weapons tech when it only gets more expensive and bulkier at the same rate that the damage and range increase? Is all armor going to be emissive in this mod?

[well, i fixed it. if weapon size is 100kt and weapon damage is 100, next level it'll be 110 and 120. next level it will be 121 and 142. i think that's the explanation; there's a complete one lower down. generally, armor will be emissive. there will be a few non-emissive's and some armor which rely heavily on emissive.]

You seem to be missing a newline between medium energy engines 17 and 18 in components.txt, that might screw up the game...

[well, it doesn't complain when i load it, but thanks.]

... ... 20 levels of engine mounts for EACH hull type??? I seriously hope that file is program generated!

[nope. all typed by hand. with a spreadsheet program in the lower half it was...well, not as hard as it might have been.]

What's to, eh, keep people from cheating with the engine mounts on larger hulls? It's rather easy to forget to mount your engines

[um...well, other people can see mounts. second, i think i'm going to rip a page of SJ and have the abbrieviation be 'OK'. other than that...well, generally there's a lot of difference between mounted and unmounted engines and well, that's it.]

All those hulls... aren't they really going to clog up the hull list?

[well, they do and they don't. there's a lot of them, but all you have to do is look for the roman numeral on the end. it actually shouldn't take long to find the hull you want.]

thanks. all input appriaciated.

[ January 07, 2004, 03:04: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Krsqk]

What's to, eh, keep people from cheating with the engine mounts on larger hulls? It's rather easy to forget to mount your engines

You could always bump up supply usage on the large engines by a factor of 100, then use the mounts to reduce it back to normal.

[Fyron]

Bump up cost by 100% too...

[narf poit chez BOOM]

if you'll take a look at the engine sizes and mounts, that may mess things up at low levels.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

look, i got a math problem i don't know how to describe. if there's any math genuises out there, i'll send you two files, one is the spreadsheet file for the resource converter and the other is for the ultra-recycler. the spreadsheet for the resource converter does what i want, the spreadsheet for the ultra-recycler is supposed to do the same, only with a reverse efficiency series. it doesn't.

i'll try to explain what i'm doing as well as i can, but it's rather hard for me.

to clarrify the problem more, the percentage series goes from 50% to 93% in 20 steps and the critical number is 100%-the percentage.

[ January 30, 2004, 02:16: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]