Carrier Battles Mod

[Kana]

Arkcon said:
an example is active armor, give it a range 1 weak point defence ability. To model it blowing itself up to defect a missile.

Never thought of this...does it work? I was working on ideas for ESG's (expanding sphere generators) for an SFB (star fleet battles) mod. I was going to use the point defense ability, with a big weapon, so that it could also be used against big ships that get to close...does the PD ability work on other component types?

Kana

[geoschmo]

I think you can give the point defense ability to pretty much any component, but the "oppotunity fire" that you are trying to gain wont work against ships. Even if the weapon can target ships, the point defense ability will only use the opportunity fire phase to shoot at seekers. Missles, fighters, drones.

[Kana]

geoschmo said:
I think you can give the point defense ability to pretty much any component, but the "oppotunity fire" that you are trying to gain wont work against ships. Even if the weapon can target ships, the point defense ability will only use the opportunity fire phase to shoot at seekers. Missles, fighters, drones.

Are you sure...? Most of the material I've read on the abilities and such says it is possible...it would suck if it isn't...cause then I would defintely wait until SEV comes out before finishing the mod...hopefully with user definable damage...

Kana

[tesco samoa]

The only thing I can see as a real problem to this mod is the micromanagement that will come in the later stages of the game.

To over come this i suggest you have the transport ships cargo increased quite a bit to ferry fighters up to staging areas.

Mind you i am assuming that the player would build a cargo ship and set it to load fighters from fighter producing planets and drop it off where your fleet is being trained.

This would help with the running out of space problems that players would have to hunt down on 100 + planet empires.

[Fyron]

Kana said:

Are you sure...? Most of the material I've read on the abilities and such says it is possible...it would suck if it isn't...cause then I would defintely wait until SEV comes out before finishing the mod...hopefully with user definable damage...

Kana

Which materials are those? They need to be corrected, because they are wrong. Geoschmo is quite correct.

SE5 will have user definable damage.

[Kana]

Imperator Fyron said:

Which materials are those? They need to be corrected, because they are wrong. Geoschmo is quite correct.

SE5 will have user definable damage.

If I remeber correctly it was the FAQ/instructions for the SE4 Modder by DavidG. I don't remeber seeing it in the Modding Manual, and if you say it isn't in there, then it probably isn't...well that sucks...I'm defintely going to have to wait till SEV comes out then...Bah!!!!

Kana

[sachmo]

I would like to play this mod...someday.

[Suicide Junkie]

An update:

Added the cannon mounts. From 20mm to 100mm in 5 steps. -10% accuracy per level, variable increases in damage power up to +70% for the biggie. The biggest two get a range increase as a bonus.
Weapon size scales as radius squared, so you get the whole gamut from 2kt guns to 50kt guns.

Been working on some scale issues between C&C, engines and cargo requirements.
More work still to be done, especially on balancing damage vs shields/armor on the 4-way fighters/ships interaction.