I think MOO worked something like, each ship class had total mass of equipment you can add there, there wasn't equivalent of hardpoints (not direct one for sure, there was limited amount of slots, but that was maybe more UI limit) ... if you equipped less that total mass, your ship was faster ...

that once you like torpedoes, you should be able research a technology, that adds torpedo hardpoints to your ships, but I don't thing we are that far ... it definitely is on my todo mod list, though ... unlocking hardpoints through research

this is an interesting idea. what kinds of tech-gated ...

so, I redesigned this ... it no longer shows on planet pane ... it shows on star system overview

the reason I like this, is that it helps me to micro manage the game ... I now can quickly say if I have all races available to me on the particular planet to maximize population cap and to unlock as ...

do you still need the save ?

I think I found a way to fix it

added this for Fusion Torpedoes and Antimatter Torpedoes (gremak are there as they are there for Heavy Missiles as well)

race = {
orthin = { locked=true },
gremak = { locked=true },
}

now Fusion Torpedoes got unlocked after ...

I think I found a way to fix it

added this for Fusion Torpedoes and Antimatter Torpedoes (gremak are there as they are there for Heavy Missiles as well)

race = {
orthin = { locked=true },
gremak = { locked=true },
}

now Fusion Torpedoes got unlocked after scientists took captured ship apart ...

hmmm,

just captured ship with Fusion Torpedoes, handed to scientists ... got the tech ... as soon as I go to Tech Tree and click on AM Torpedoes (as this got unlocked for me due to having access to Fusion Torpedoes now) the game throws error at me ... something something Weaponinfo.lua something ...

took me a bit to realize what is going on when I supposedly unlocked "Plasma Torpedoes" from defeating certain Harpy unit and nothing was showing up in tech tree ... then I realized Orthin have no access to torpedoes at all ... technically they do not have access to ships with Torpedo hardpoint ...

sven wrote:So, um, yes, that code is definitely buggy. I'll push an official fix in the next patch

no worries, Sven, you guys are doing great job and we are here all together to make this game the best of them all

How did shield absorption work in MOO2?

first X amount of damage for each weapon hitting shields was ignored ... so absorption of 2 (for example) and firing at that shield with a weapon of damage range 3-8 actually made that weapon 1-6 effectively

I like it, because it promotes quality over ...

sooo, I removed this function from WEAPONS.lua and added a bit of a code (in shipdamage.lua or what ever the name of the file is) that if shield_piercing_level is nil, it is set to 0

function WeaponProperty.shield_piercing_level(w)
if not w:special 'Shield Piercing'
return 0
end
return 1
end ...

I like this one ... now I am wondering, if you have the time and it is something you like to implement as well

I always liked the way how MOO 2 had shield absorption implemented, I wanted to look into it a year ago for SiS, and I want to look into it now, I just don't have that much time

Not exactly... The property values can be overwritten by values defined in the weapon or the weapon's weapon info table. So, for example, if we're evaluating the shield_piercing_level of a Force Lance, we should always return 2 (because that's the value defined in the Force Lance entry in WEAPONS ...

hi Sven,

this should be what is in current build code (I am at work and only have a copy of Lua State folder, it is about a week old, so latest released build, I think)

define_weapon "Force Lance" {
tier=3,
sound_fun = "FORCE_LANCE",
type = "kinetic",
power_mult=3,
drawer_type = 'force_beam ...

Out of curiosity, what were you trying before?

function WeaponProperty.shield_piercing_level(w)
if not w:special 'Shield Piercing'
return 0
end
if w.shield_piercing_level>1
return w.shield_piercing_level
else
return 1
end
end

just tested it, it seems my "ugly hack" is still needed for ...

hey everyone, back to the game after about a year ... I was quickly checking a few things, this (shield piercing) seems to be unchanged unless it is now handled differently in the code ?