Possible mod recruitment

[steviegirl]

Hmmmmmm....Interesting!

[steviegirl]

Major Payne,if he ain't busy!Um....oh ya....very perty!!

[MrVulcan]

Hi Fallengraces

That base looks excellent And I like the idea for the different types of shields.

For modular, unicomplex type bases, I suggest you look at the NX Baseby Westworld.

In my experience, the AI couldn't build modular bases though.

[AFC]

Very nice Base/ship yard there

[Elrond]

Good stuff!

[MrVulcan]

my question is that can i place in the TT a line that would let me build it but wont let more than 1 on a map at a time

Strictly speaking, no. There is no way to do that through the techtree files. However, the "research" station can only build a certain unit/station once. If the unit/station already exists on the map somewhere, you could not build another.

Therefore, you can set this up as a small research station that "researches" the main base. The main base will be a research station also that "researches" the shipyards. With this setup, only one base will be buildbale by each player.

As for the AI, you'd either have to remove the modules' abilities (shipyards, refineries, etc) to let the AI build the modules. Could also create the base via the map editor. Adam and I have been working on the same problem for FT and have not yet found a reasonable solution. Maybe you'll think of something first

Hope this helps.

[MrVulcan]

hmm.. what do you mean by Operation center? Something like a starting base? If so, then an operations center is not really necessary.

The constsruction ship can build a pod, provided the pod has the "research" class label. Pods like the stock tech pods can't exist on their own and explode when not attached to a research station.

[steviegirl]

Hmmmmm...............nice thought,many have tried ta get around that!

[steviegirl]

Awsome!!

[MrVulcan]

There may be a way to do something like what you're proposing.

Research stations can build only as many pods as there are hardpoints specified in the odf. If you specify only one pod hardpoint, the research station will build only one pod. However, you could still have up to 11 items in the build list; that's 11 choices

Now all that remains is to set the techtree requirements so that one of those research pods is required to build a particular construction ship.

One problem with this is that there's nothing preventing the player from building another research station, unless it is an unbuildable a starting unit.

[steviegirl]

Can hardlywait too play with

[steviegirl]

Damn....I hate that when that happens!!!Damn registry!!!

[MrVulcan]

The build hardpoint can be redefined. I know 3ds max exporter ignores the build and repair hardpoints locations. Guess milkshape does that too. Just rename your build hardpoint to hp## and place the following line in the odf:

buildHardpoint = "hp##"

Not sure about the repair hp. Theoretically, the line that defines this shoud be:

repairHardpoint = "hp##"

Don't know if this works though as I couldn't survive long enough to build the shipyard I was testing this on . Note that the line exists in the exe. (I actually went through the trouble of reading though the jumble of code to see if there was anything interesting that the developers didn't end up using. Used a simple notepad too.)


If the repair line doesn't work, you can reposition the model in milkshape so that the desired repair hardpoint location is at the origin (0,0,0).

[MrVulcan]

Update on the repair hardpoint: the repairHardpoint line works

[MrVulcan]

Hmmm... try also adding:

repairSide = 1

Wasn't sure if this line worked in A1, but I had this in the yard I was testing.