sigh, i don't have internet at home, so i need to download the patches at work and take it home. this sucks. where can i get the offline patches? i have till 1.05, need the rest. please help.
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[quote]If you are looking to for interested modders to incorporate your .entity changes, could you please release text versions of your .entity files, because as is, I don't believe there is a way to view the bin versions of your files. As is, if I were to simply copy your changed .entity files over mine, my balance changes would be overwritten. However, if I have access to what exact changes you made to the .entity files, then I can merge them with my own.[/quote] QFT, same here.<br
Wouldn't the easiest just be to let the player wait 5 minutes before he starts so the other player has a 'jumpstart'?
[quote]good to knwo thanks Bailknight[/quote] Bailknight has again gained much respect from me... [quote]Diffuse ffffffff ->see color table Ambient ffffffff Specular ffffffff Emissive ffffffff[/quote] I've tried changing these, didn't have an effect. Where do I change the colors of the weapons? I've read the kol beam post, what I'm trying to get at is that the colors of the ships and exhausts are the player color, where can i overwrite that??
-Super specialization of ship types - you need a specific ship for a specific task, like planet bombing, making fleet combinations obvious and uninteresting. [color="#000080"]Don't agree. Ship specialisation adds strategy depth.[/color] -All ships can attack all targets with roughly the same effectiveness, except in rare cases (eg flaks v capital), making battles generally about who has more ships in aggregate [color="#000080"]Agreed, defensive ships/abilities should
[quote]Specifically I am looking to tweak the auto-cast conditions... [/quote] That's in each ability file. And it's not broken. There's target filters which dictates when the AI CAN use the ability and AIconditions which dictates WHEN the AI will use it. Concerning AI game behaviour, yes, that's totally screwed. For one thing they never attack. They will just build their armada at the neighbouring planet, sigh.
I don't know what synchronized targeting is, haven't spent time figuring that out yet. Stagger Delay is just a weapon effect. It adjusts where the bullets go on moving targets, ie a little ahead or behind. For color, look [link="https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/post.aspx?postid=303416"]here[/link]
Sounds to me you forgot to change the max resourceAsteroidsAllowed. Or the number of resource asteroids doesn't add up to the max number. don't know if it will crash if that happens though.
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goto the galaxyDefScenario file and change the template. That defines what players start with. Interesting idea not to have frigates/cruisers, since the AI also just spam Lights. My AI has ALWAYS build a colony capitalship first. Not sure what happened with your game. Maybe he was research?
Which version of Sins are you playing?
Me too would like to know. Personally I don't think it's feasible as it's a different ModifierEntityType, but hey, you never know...
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thank you bailknight, that clears it. I thought it was RGB and now i know I missed an a.
The last 6. The first 2 is normally ff. Don't know why, something to do with they render everything in black by default instead of white. or something like that, i don't know.
1 minute with google gives [link="http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colornames.asp"]this[/link] EDIT: i lied, it was actually 10seconds. And your ffffff is white.
[quote]It keeps crusing...maybe there is a syntax error,does anyone knows if i can find the correct set of numbers i have to use to alter this setting?[/quote] I think it's something else crashing the game. Don't know the range of numbers you can use, sorry. Guess it could be something like -999999 to 999999?
Well, we got plenty a planet now, great job! Going to use your mod in my mod. What about any future uncolonizable planets? Like better plasma storms or electrical storms?
Are you chaning the GalaxyScenarioDef file in GameInfo? I was thinking of changing the planetTypes in the file, coz the layout really really sucks. I've made changes to my mod already and the galaxy is way much better already. Was wondering if you know know what happens when the galaxy generator doesn't find a planetType in the GalaxyScenarioDef file as made by the map/galaxy file? Will the game minidump? Maybe I can make changes for you to the planetTypes, eg. RandomCloseSun
Haven't used it, but I think it's a run command, look in the manual coming with the tools.
[quote]Interesting mod, however I too have serious doubts it'll run stable for longer than 2-3 hours before the AI builds soo many frigs/cruisers it just ctd's or locks up entirely.If you want bigger battles maybe just increase the fleet size by 3x normal? (although that will still eat into the processing power severely.)[/quote] QFT
[quote]-Phased Jump Inhibitors will have increase jump time by 2500% and have 1/2 the range. Now you have to place them at the edge of the build range limit as close to the phase lane you want to block in order for them to do their job. Now enemy ships trying to jump to your other worlds will have a MUCH longer jump charge time. I recommend not using it around the phase lanes the AI will use to retreat or you'll find the game to be too easy. Against human players though...[/quote] IMO i
[quote]I'll try to write something up over the weekend if nobody beats me to it, going to be busy tonight.. you've actually been doing stuff I haven't, so maybe I'll write a bit about adding races, research, abilities, etc and send it over to you so you can fill in the fleet cap stuff, planet stuff, whatever else?[/quote] Please. and remember to include how to change the appearance of stuff, I still don't know how to give fighters longer exhaust trails :(
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I think it's possible. You can edit the RS_MaxShipSlots[race]0 files for each race. Just make the base value less and nobody should be able to have enough fleet cap to make capitalships at start of the game. Not sure if you have to change the perLevel upgrade as it's 150%, meaning base of 100 x 1.5 = 150 starting cap. so play around, see what you get. Anyway, that's where I'll start with your idea.
[quote]This is obviously a race who never developed Cough Drop technology.[/quote] LMAO
I don't follow. sorry, but it doesn't make sense to do all this effort. I would just change the speed settings, eg make research longer and credit income slower, etc. Should have the same effect and it's only a few lines. What am i missing?