Ship Design - Is it similar to SMAC Design Workshop?

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From what I have read combat is similar to Civ/SMAC rather than MOO2. Is the ship design similar to SMAC - ie Chassis/Armour/Weapons/Special Abilities?
Even though SMAC combat was non-tactical, I did enjoy the design aspect of it.
thanks.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
No ship design in game. You can however make new ships available be adding a file with a ship extension in the data directory.
Here is an example.


//------------------------------------------------------------------------
SHIP StarHawk
//------------------------------------------------------------------------

Name "Star Hawk"
Model "Ship06"
Description "The next generation of survey ships. Starts off with some basic attack and defense capabilities."

HitPoints 60
Attack 2
Defense 1
Speed 2
Cost 200
SensorRange 5
Ability "Survey"
Ability "Attack"
Tech_Requirement "StarHawk"
Maintenance 0
Range 4
Weapon "Photon"
ENDSHIP

The bonus pak is going to ship with tools for modifying these types of files.

If you want to find out about the ships, technologies, project etc in the game you can go to my website at

http://webpages.charter.net/trevorpowdrell/index.htm

Hope this helps.
Ashes of the Singularity II
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
JavaScout's site is second to no one, he who is the leader of the metaverse. We all bow towards javascouts website :)

JavaScout's web site has made the difference in me being able to win a couple of games. I've got it printed out next to my computer when i get lost in the tech tree which as you can see is really easy to do

rich

rich
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
Yeah, it's really amazing, louie. I'm just now beginning to realize just how deep GalCiv seems to be.

Can't wait to play it and I wish now that I had gotten in on the beta. LOL

-Randy
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
hi damelon!
I'm pretty sure that you will like this game. It's the best 4x game i've seen in a long time. I suggest you start in a small galaxy when you begin, to get the handle of how the game works. And then move up to bigger galaxies (if you want) :). The current game i'm playing gigantic galaxy, i'm 40+ hours into it and in the fight for my life. The drengin are looking at me as if i belong on a deli menu (I'll have terran legs with an altarian on the side and put in on one of those new yor plates i made :) ) The alatarians are close to me now, so i can ally with them, but first i want to get some goodies from the minor races before the altarians attack them and i'm forced to follow suit) Also the drengin are destabalizing me and i'm destabalizing them back. We'll see who's morale plumets farther. See ya around the forum and when you start playing don't hesitate to ask questions.

rich