Mon Apr 16, 2007 7:21 pm
capital ship power ideas
anyway....
an idea for any mod that plans to/has capital ships (gunboat,cruiser battleship, or other ship). Pretty much..i have noticed shields are not really "supposed" to be used on capital ships...and even thought i am not sure if this is possible...it would be interesting to use the shield bar for something else....another type of power. All cap ships could have a pretty large "power supply" i.e. a disposable cartridge with a large compacity but no regen..like a battery. I had to ideas for this:
#1 : have the shields be normal and the power bar get used up slowely (when firing, or if a balanced way was thought of...when doing other things like, say, moving, or scanning cargo..idk jst giving ideas) and have no regen rate. you could either buy a new power gererator (or battery you could name it) for a medium price...or more for more compacity. or if you could think of how to do it...you could have a "battery holder" power generator and buy "ammo" (batteries). (also if you made it be used for moving you could have it recharge only when you entered "recharge mode" like when you could not scan or fire or move...but that might get boring so ...idk)
(((easy)))
#2 : you would use the power bar for short term firing like normal power if you wanted the guns to have to stop firing for a while. Then the shield bar could be used as dicussed above.... this would make more sence because cap ships arnt supposed to have shields anyway. BUT: you could also have the cap ship have shields and LINK THEM TO the main power (shield bar) witch might ALSO make sence...in a way... this would be very hard to do......
(((HARD)))
all this is just ideas for people...because...as you guy know by now...im not really that good at modding freelancer...
respond with ideas or what not please!
an idea for any mod that plans to/has capital ships (gunboat,cruiser battleship, or other ship). Pretty much..i have noticed shields are not really "supposed" to be used on capital ships...and even thought i am not sure if this is possible...it would be interesting to use the shield bar for something else....another type of power. All cap ships could have a pretty large "power supply" i.e. a disposable cartridge with a large compacity but no regen..like a battery. I had to ideas for this:
#1 : have the shields be normal and the power bar get used up slowely (when firing, or if a balanced way was thought of...when doing other things like, say, moving, or scanning cargo..idk jst giving ideas) and have no regen rate. you could either buy a new power gererator (or battery you could name it) for a medium price...or more for more compacity. or if you could think of how to do it...you could have a "battery holder" power generator and buy "ammo" (batteries). (also if you made it be used for moving you could have it recharge only when you entered "recharge mode" like when you could not scan or fire or move...but that might get boring so ...idk)
(((easy)))
#2 : you would use the power bar for short term firing like normal power if you wanted the guns to have to stop firing for a while. Then the shield bar could be used as dicussed above.... this would make more sence because cap ships arnt supposed to have shields anyway. BUT: you could also have the cap ship have shields and LINK THEM TO the main power (shield bar) witch might ALSO make sence...in a way... this would be very hard to do......
(((HARD)))
all this is just ideas for people...because...as you guy know by now...im not really that good at modding freelancer...
respond with ideas or what not please!