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Offline IPAndrews

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Re: BHX Babylonian History X - WIP
Well I finally got sick of the campaign churning out blatantly unfair missions. Often due to it not knowing the difference between a capital ship such as a Bintak and a cruiser such as a Th'nor. So I finally bit the bullet and decided to sort the problems out. It was more trouble than I bargained for and resulted in another big overhaul of the way missions are generated. The result is something that is fairer and more flexible. For instance the most generic mission in the campaign "Chance Engagement" which I was using as the test bed will now generate missions in which teams sometimes mainly comprise of fighters, sometimes of cruisers, but the total effective fighting strengths of the opposing teams will always be in the same ball park. Excepting any penalties incurred because the enemy has many more remaining ships, and those due to skill level (less enemy ships are now present in any mission when you play on easier difficulty settings).

This is nice stuff and hasn't really bloated the SEXP usage that badly. It does mean I have to go through all the missoins again though and update them. Hopefully this will be the last time and I'll have it done before MAG returns. Things are coming together though very quicky.
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Re: BHX Babylonian History X - WIP
Did the ship loss/momentum calculations I helped you with work out in the end?

 

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Yes that whole thread of conversation back in the day was invaluable. In the end I took inspiration from comments made by various people and mixed in something of my own. The resulting code handles territory and losses in a way that I am 100% happy with.
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I'm guessing that Avioki up there is about to undergo the B5 equivalent of being buggered by an angry bear?

 

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Nothing can stand in the way of a Sharlin. I was testing the blockade running mission. A single Sharlin trying to break a blockade around a jumpgate consisting of a Primus, a load of Vorchans, a load of fighters, and rather nasty minefield. The Sharlin casually glided through the blockade annihilating everything in the area.
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Re: BHX Babylonian History X - WIP
Minbari are the galactic space rapists, Thank Grud i was born before the Earth - Minbar war.
Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
- Blue Planet: Battle Captains
-Battle of Neptune
-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

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Offline aldo_14

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Re: BHX Babylonian History X - WIP
Minbari are the galactic space rapists, Thank Grud i was born before the Earth - Minbar war.

Um, wouldn't you rather be born after?

 

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Re: BHX Babylonian History X - WIP
And have to put up with tonnes of "During the war...." stories? :p

To be honest I'm glad to see that the Minbari are as nasty in the game as they were in the show :)
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Offline IPAndrews

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Re: BHX Babylonian History X - WIP
And have to put up with tonnes of "During the war...." stories? :p

This campaign is nothing but "during the war" stories.
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Offline Colonol Dekker

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I hope so, :D
 Flying a campaign without having to shoot anything would "do my bloody nut" Extremely boring dont you think
Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
- Blue Planet: Battle Captains
-Battle of Neptune
-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

Your friendly Orestes tactical controller.

Secret bomb God.
That one time I got permabanned and got to read who was being bitxhy about me :p....
GO GO DEKKER RANGERSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Offline IPAndrews

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Re: BHX Babylonian History X - WIP
Ok. Well for the seemingly 5 or so people who visit the forum these days. Here's the latest in the never ending BHX WIP soap opera. You see unlike certain other campaigns <cough>Machina Terra<cough> I actually keep you informed. So what work has been done. Well I did a couple of nice new missions where you blow tons of stuff up and there's a big battle and everything. I also did the extra special top-secret mission. It's a fantastic idea and really quite revolutionary. Tomcat and Col Fishguts know but they will never tell. I have about 12 missions finished at the moment and that's updated with the new framework. It takes about 2-3 hours to churn out a new mission and I want to have about 30 at least. But I'm not working on this thing full time so don't even try and do the math ;).
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But it'll be out before Duke Nukem Forever.

Damn... that joke is getting old. *yawn*
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Re: BHX Babylonian History X - WIP
Well I finally got sick of the campaign churning out blatantly unfair missions. Often due to it not knowing the difference between a capital ship such as a Bintak and a cruiser such as a Th'nor. So I finally bit the bullet and decided to sort the problems out. It was more trouble than I bargained for and resulted in another big overhaul of the way missions are generated. The result is something that is fairer and more flexible. For instance the most generic mission in the campaign "Chance Engagement" which I was using as the test bed will now generate missions in which teams sometimes mainly comprise of fighters, sometimes of cruisers, but the total effective fighting strengths of the opposing teams will always be in the same ball park. Excepting any penalties incurred because the enemy has many more remaining ships, and those due to skill level (less enemy ships are now present in any mission when you play on easier difficulty settings).

Whoah, hold up, did you say generated? what, are the missions randomly generated for the player to tackle? (kind of like flight sims, i suppose)
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Offline IPAndrews

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Re: BHX Babylonian History X - WIP
Whoah, hold up, did you say generated? what, are the missions randomly generated for the player to tackle? (kind of like flight sims, i suppose)

Well, pseudo-generated. If that makes any sense. Generated on a theme? There were simply too many limitations to make missions 100% generated.
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Well for the seemingly 5 or so people who visit the forum these days

Wa.. Hey! I take offense to that. I visit the forums! I demand you rephrase that to read, "To the 5 people who visit these forums and actually make a communal contribution which helps to keep me motivated by letting me to believe that some people will actually play the game upon release".

Now that I could accept.

Oh and while I'm here I suppose..... Good work. Keep it up. Feel the burn. Work past the pain. Give it 110%.. annnnd so forth.
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Offline IPAndrews

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Well I wouldn't go that far, but how about this as a compromise.

Ok. Well for the seemingly 5 or so people inc Rand al Thor who visit the forum these days.
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I am here,


I just don't say a damn thing...

Err, Keep up the good work on this campaign though it sounds awesome. It would be nice to have something new to play. :)

 

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I think there are quite some lurkers who aren't registered and just check by every few weeks or so. I know I do that on some MOD projects.
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Offline aldo_14

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And have to put up with tonnes of "During the war...." stories? :p

"Phew.  I'm telling you mate, I thought their head was bony, but then they pulled out..........."

 

Offline IPAndrews

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The next Earth Minbari war starts. Never try to show you are friendly by approaching with gun ports open.



Silly humans.
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