armor - nope
shields - yes

Well, you can make the hulls muh stronger in shiparch.ini, and give the Torpedoes higher damage to make them good at killing capships, but guns could be too weak to do any significant damage before they kill you...

And you could add some armor plates to the loadout. They were originaly planned and the droppes, but they still work. They scale the armor of the ship.

Planned for drops? They are just for traders and ships to survive in different systems (eg Starflier in tokyo)

Whoops, i meant they were planned but they were dropped from the game.

Maybe I should take my time to post ^^

Those things simply increase you effective hitpoints. However, with a LOT of work you could create destructible platings around the ship that can be shot off, with root_health_proxy=false, so you would first have to shoot down the armor plates at a certain spot to be able to actually damage the ship. If it weren't such a huge amoount of work (and pretty bad due to the limited sur files editing possibilities) I would have tired that myself already...

Edited by - Mephistopheles on 12/17/2004 6:11:35 AM

Depending on the ship's intended use, there's several ways to do it:
1) In "ShipArch.ini" increase the "hit_pts = 69300" value.
--Will increase every battleship player, or NPC controlled.
2) In "Loadouts_Special.ini" change, or add the line "equip = armor_scale_0."
--The complete list of armor_scale's are in the Select_Equip.ini file.
--The maximum is armor_scale_21 which is 27.033550 times the normal hit_pts.
--This only works on NPC Battleships using the given loadout.

Battleships don't have shields, so I don't know how you'd add one.





Watch your 6!

And what of regenerating hulls for capitol ships ?

or reducing the repair costs

Thank you for all you input BTW

hull regen isnt possible.
repair costs are connected to item costs.
max price of a single item (like a shiphull) is 9999999, so there are limits.

Fjord

As I said, you can either give them hull platings, which scale the hull strength, or you create an Shield Hardpoint via HardCMP and add a shield to the loadout. Should be working.

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And what of regenerating hulls for capitol ships ?

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I suppose you could give them repair_bots...
(But you'd have to give them one heckuva lot!)
(Or you could make a special cap ship repair bot.)
As LordFjord said, repair costs are tied to ship cost.

Manhattan_Guy:
Only problem with adding a shield...
Would it automatically extend around the entire ship, or would it be the size of a fighter's shield?
Hmmm...
Perhaps it's tied to the SUR file?
If so, then it would surround the entire ship!
Might be worth a try.

Watch your 6!

Hmm, I saw a *****_shield.cmp, maybe this is it, but it's kinda empty... At least for all tools I know. But this could be it...