Captains and Governors

[Kadste]

Some of the areas that I am working on in my mod are crew grade, starship captains and planetary/system governors. Crew grade is done with 6 grades. New facilities include Training Centers. Also included are grade of fighter pilot with new facilities including Fighter School. I am happy with them, so I moved on.

Next was starship captains. Captains are modeled after conmponents. Here is an example:

Name := Jean Luc Picard
Description := Legendary Starship Captain that will positively affect System/Combat movement and Combat Offensive/Defensive abilities.
Pic Num := 308
Tonnage Space Taken := 1
Tonnage Structure := 1
Cost Minerals := 1000
Cost Organics := 1000
Cost Radioactives := 1000
Vehicle Type := Ship\Base
Supply Amount Used := 1
Restrictions := One Per Vehicle
General Group := Vehicle Control
Family := 7000
Roman Numeral := 0
Custom Group := 0
Number of Tech Req := 0
Number of Abilities := 4
Ability 1 Type := Combat Movement
Ability 1 Descr := Generates 1 additional movement point during combat.
Ability 1 Val 1 := 1
Ability 1 Val 2 := 0
Ability 2 Type := Movement Bonus
Ability 2 Descr := Generates 1 bonus movement points.
Ability 2 Val 1 := 1
Ability 2 Val 2 := 0
Ability 3 Type := Combat To Hit Offense Plus
Ability 3 Descr := Gives a 20% attack bonus in combat (only 1 component per ship effective).
Ability 3 Val 1 := 20
Ability 3 Val 2 := 0
Ability 4 Type := Combat To Hit Defense Plus
Ability 4 Descr := Gives a 20% defense bonus in combat (only 1 component per ship effective).
Ability 4 Val 1 := 20
Ability 4 Val 2 := 0
Weapon Type := None

This seems to work, but will require testing.
How about it, you can be the first kid on your planet to command your very own starship, your picture included! I used Jean Luc's picture at this time, but do not know how to how to include his portrait on the component bitmap image. Anybody know how?

Next I will tackle Planetary Governors and System Governors. Not sure if they should be a facility (leading in my opinion right now), a unit, or some other thing. Need restrictions to work, but the facilities.txt says they will not work. I will try a one per planet and one per system ability to see if they will work.

Comments, opinions, suggestions welcome.



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In encircled ground, devise stratagems;
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