HLP Network

News:

Thanks to the hard work of rev_posix and Sandwich, the HLP email system has been fixed!  All registration emails from the past few months have been re-sent.  If you still need help, please sign on to Discord and let us know.  The Discord link can be found in the top navbar under the HLP menu. ヾ(´︶`♡)ﾉ

 
« Previous Thread Next Thread »
Print
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Electronics and ships size  (Read 2020 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline General Battuta

  • Poe's Law In Action
  • 214
  • i wonder when my postcount will exceed my iq
Electronics and ships size
on: November 01, 2015, 08:17:44 pm
A weapon with the 'electronics' setting can temporarily disable all the turrets on a warship.

This is a great feature for an anti-cruiser gun, but I don't want to give players an off switch for corvettes and destroyers. Can we make electronics scale with ship size somehow?
 

Offline Fury

  • The Curmudgeon
  • 213
Re: Electronics and ships size
Reply #1 on: November 02, 2015, 12:18:48 am
Perhaps a flag that ties electronics effectiveness to huge and supercap flags?
 

Offline jr2

  • The Mail Man
  • 212
  • It's prounounced jayartoo 0x6A7232
    • Steam
Re: Electronics and ships size
Reply #2 on: November 02, 2015, 01:46:28 am
It'd be cool if it just shut down all turrets within a certain distance of the blast.
 

Offline headdie

  • i don't use punctuation lol
  • 212
  • Lawful Neutral with a Chaotic outook
    • Minecraft
    • Skype
    • Twitter
    • Headdie on Deviant Art
Re: Electronics and ships size
Reply #3 on: November 02, 2015, 01:53:32 am
Would a flag in say the armor table do the job?
Minister of Interstellar Affairs Sol Union - Retired
quote General Battuta - "FRED is canon!"
Contact me at [email protected]
My Release Thread, Old Release Thread, Celestial Objects Thread, My rubbish attempts at art
 

Offline AdmiralRalwood

  • 211
  • The Cthulhu programmer himself!
    • Skype
    • Steam
    • Twitter
Re: Electronics and ships size
Reply #4 on: November 02, 2015, 02:05:30 am
Quote from: jr2 on November 02, 2015, 01:46:28 am
It'd be cool if it just shut down all turrets within a certain distance of the blast.
This should already be the case.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Codethulhu GitHub wgah'nagl fhtagn.

schrödinbug (noun) - a bug that manifests itself in running software after a programmer notices that the code should never have worked in the first place.

When you gaze long into BMPMAN, BMPMAN also gazes into you.

"I am one of the best FREDders on Earth" -General Battuta

<Aesaar> literary criticism is vladimir putin

<MageKing17> "There's probably a reason the code is the way it is" is a very dangerous line of thought. :P
<MageKing17> Because the "reason" often turns out to be "nobody noticed it was wrong".
(the very next day)
<MageKing17> this ****ing code did it to me again
<MageKing17> "That doesn't really make sense to me, but I'll assume it was being done for a reason."
<MageKing17> **** ME
<MageKing17> THE REASON IS PEOPLE ARE STUPID
<MageKing17> ESPECIALLY ME

<MageKing17> God damn, I do not understand how this is breaking.
<MageKing17> Everything points to "this should work fine", and yet it's clearly not working.
<MjnMixael> 2 hours later... "God damn, how did this ever work at all?!"
(...)
<MageKing17> so
<MageKing17> more than two hours
<MageKing17> but once again we have reached the inevitable conclusion
<MageKing17> How did this code ever work in the first place!?

<@The_E> Welcome to OpenGL, where standards compliance is optional, and error reporting inconsistent

<MageKing17> It was all working perfectly until I actually tried it on an actual mission.

<IronWorks> I am useful for FSO stuff again. This is a red-letter day!
* z64555 erases "Thursday" and rewrites it in red ink

<MageKing17> TIL the entire homing code is held up by shoestrings and duct tape, basically.
 

Offline The E

  • He's Ebeneezer Goode
  • Moderator
  • 213
  • Nothing personal, just tech support.
    • Steam
    • Twitter
Re: Electronics and ships size
Reply #5 on: November 02, 2015, 02:07:20 am
Quote from: General Battuta on November 01, 2015, 08:17:44 pm
A weapon with the 'electronics' setting can temporarily disable all the turrets on a warship.

This is a great feature for an anti-cruiser gun, but I don't want to give players an off switch for corvettes and destroyers. Can we make electronics scale with ship size somehow?

We could do something like introducing a "system integrity" and a "system recovery" attribute. An electronics weapon lowers the system integrity score and once that pool is depleted, the ship acts as if EMPed until integrity is restored.
If I'm just aching this can't go on
I came from chasing dreams to feel alone
There must be changes, miss to feel strong
I really need lifе to touch me
--Evergrey, Where August Mourns
 

Offline General Battuta

  • Poe's Law In Action
  • 214
  • i wonder when my postcount will exceed my iq
Re: Electronics and ships size
Reply #6 on: November 02, 2015, 07:42:49 am
That's definitely the most flexible option, but it requires retabling every ship in the game. A weapon-side attribute might be easier, like a 'huge multiplier' and 'supercap multiplier'.
 

Offline The E

  • He's Ebeneezer Goode
  • Moderator
  • 213
  • Nothing personal, just tech support.
    • Steam
    • Twitter
Re: Electronics and ships size
Reply #7 on: November 02, 2015, 07:53:05 am
Yeah, but what is that going to do? Decrease the time to recovery, disallow disruption entirely?
If I'm just aching this can't go on
I came from chasing dreams to feel alone
There must be changes, miss to feel strong
I really need lifе to touch me
--Evergrey, Where August Mourns
 

Offline Phantom Hoover

  • 211
Re: Electronics and ships size
Reply #8 on: November 02, 2015, 09:51:17 am
Some sort of armour class thing maybe?
The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell.
 

Offline headdie

  • i don't use punctuation lol
  • 212
  • Lawful Neutral with a Chaotic outook
    • Minecraft
    • Skype
    • Twitter
    • Headdie on Deviant Art
Re: Electronics and ships size
Reply #9 on: November 02, 2015, 10:42:02 am
Quote from: Phantom Hoover on November 02, 2015, 09:51:17 am
Some sort of armour class thing maybe?
thats what I was thinking
Minister of Interstellar Affairs Sol Union - Retired
quote General Battuta - "FRED is canon!"
Contact me at [email protected]
My Release Thread, Old Release Thread, Celestial Objects Thread, My rubbish attempts at art
 

Offline General Battuta

  • Poe's Law In Action
  • 214
  • i wonder when my postcount will exceed my iq
Re: Electronics and ships size
Reply #10 on: November 02, 2015, 11:41:13 am
Quote from: The E on November 02, 2015, 07:53:05 am
Yeah, but what is that going to do? Decrease the time to recovery, disallow disruption entirely?

It would work like the existing Multiplier entries on the electronics flag. You could just set it to 0 to prevent a weapon from effecting huge/supercap ships.
Print
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« Previous Thread Next Thread »