Mod interest check

[Suicide Junkie]

Searching through a large asteroid belt to find the few asteroids with usable resources in them would be appropriate prospecting work

[Phoenix-D]

Suicide Junkie said:
Searching through a large asteroid belt to find the few asteroids with usable resources in them would be appropriate prospecting work

The radar sort of makes that pointless; anything that can be damaged shows up as a colored blip.

edit: though, that wouldn't happen with the cheese method..I think. Hmm.

[Phoenix-D]

Ok, a component display question.

Each component has a ID number, which tells the game when the player is and isn't allowed to carry it. If you aren't, and it is detected, you will be fined and/or fired on.

The question is, how to related that to the player? The starting race has several levels of permission:

Civilian
Merc
Military Class 1
Military Class 2
Military Class 3

Right now I have it indicated like so:

Component X
[MERC] (component Description)

But that eats into the description space, which is limited as it is. I'd prefer something like

[Merc] Component X
or
Component X [Merc]

but that looks..sort of cluttered. So which would you prefer?

[Phoenix-D]

Yay for announcing things before you have time to work on them.

I've had to pretty much scrap all the weapons I had before to get PD properly balanced. A 'default' PD gun is now rated to destroy a 'default' incoming missile 100% of the time..but just short of impact, and only if both are stationary. A second missile will ALWAYS overload the defense and impact.

This means charging a missile-firing unit is going to hurt, because even that first missile is going to hit now and then. Its also better balanced than it seems because most PD guns now cover only a single firing arc.

[Combat Wombat]

If you don't think you have the time to do your mod, The People's Mod team is looking for new members.

[Exan]

Combat Wombat said:
If you don't think you have the time to do your mod, The People's Mod team is looking for new members.

Yep. People who would want to test and scale the models in the game would be nice because right now atleast some of the ships in the mod are scaled all wrong.

There are also some components issues and generally the redo of Main_Enemies.txt which will be quite a pain I believe.

Anyway all help is greatly appreciated.

[Phoenix-D]

Combat Wombat said:
If you don't think you have the time to do your mod, The People's Mod team is looking for new members.

I have a 196 system completely mapped out system map. Mostly bug-free, at that. (I think.)

I'm NOT going that far and stopping. I have time now, just didn't until now.

Right now I'm fiddling with the first race's ship design. I have it set currently so that some things (eg smaller weapons) can go on the "outside" of the ship. Not sure if that's a good idea or not.

For a while I had it so -anything- could go on the outside.

Then I realized that would let people stick three Heavy Mass Drivers on their ship and do 1k points of damage to anything within 220 LS. Err..no. BAD idea. It did take up 600kt, but nothing could go near that design and live..

[Phoenix-D]

Status update:

Since Moveplayer doesn't work, I went with my backup Hyperspace system. The original idea was that you'd drop a component, which would "open a portal" (move you to a exit outside the main system map).

Now you fly to a hyperspace point. But you have to have a hyperdrive or hyper intiator on board; if you don't, you'll be destroyed. The difference between the two is the Initator only has one charge, and then POOF, its gone.

Hyperspace itself has been completely implimented. It has two modes- one is like normal travel except the warp points are closer together, and thus faster to get to. The second is MUCH faster- it consists of 5 hyperspace systems with exits to every system in the quadrent. But its also very very dangerous.

I'll post some screenshots when I get the graphics done.