Blue Shields, Will Fleet Ops Have Them?

posted on August 10th, 2005, 6:48 pm

We fixed that in Twilight ie a sphere has 11,000 crew and a cube has a really big number which I can't remember at the moment.

posted on August 11th, 2005, 4:32 am

always have hated that in mods. tend to get overwhelmed by the ai teleporting onto my ships. >>

Yeah well if they have a lot of crew....
But I can understand how that can be annoying, if nothing else it ***** up the AI cause all of their ships wont have shields anymore -.-
But can that be prevented, I mean without adding them shields of course

posted on August 11th, 2005, 3:34 pm

here is an idea for implementing different colour shields for different races. if its possible, couldn't you just make the nessesary files, then assign them to the individual ships, in their odf,

for example, in the odf
fbattle.odf:
include "battle.odf"
include "blueshield.(insert file type)"

costs, blah, blah, blah

sorry if this ain't too clear. just a thought i had.

posted on August 11th, 2005, 7:24 pm

That only works for programming files it will not work with sods and textures

[Cpt Ryan]

posted on August 11th, 2005, 9:56 pm

Last edited by Cpt Ryan on August 15th, 2005, 7:11 pm, edited 1 time in total.

****, thought i was on to something there :cry:

that was supposed to be "****", not sure why its blanked out . +only just noticed it now

posted on August 13th, 2005, 8:32 pm

I would suggest you could add race specific or blue shields as an additional patch ...
how is it about that ?
i like the blue shields seen here ...

posted on August 15th, 2005, 12:41 pm

i think i played an armada 2 mod where a single ship had a blue shield that stayed blue, and the rest of that races ships had normal shielding color. was a while ago, don't really remember that much about it. sorry i couldn't be more help.

posted on August 15th, 2005, 1:04 pm

@SisQ
Yep, we are thinking about a launcher option to allow every user to decide which shields he want to use.
We don't know if it will be included in v3, but you should find it in v4 ^_^

posted on August 15th, 2005, 6:26 pm

thats a really good idea i have always wanted the "canon" shields or what ever they are on the show in this game to make it more real

posted on August 15th, 2005, 6:33 pm

Well then everyone will choose the shields of their race to make the game for them more realistic, which is great

posted on August 15th, 2005, 7:08 pm

one thing to watch out for would be wether this effects multiplayer stability, for players who have chosen different shield colours.

posted on August 15th, 2005, 8:28 pm

yep, of course. if we implement it it will be multiplayer-compatible. otherwise we won't implement it
either we do it right or we don't do it at all

posted on August 15th, 2005, 8:35 pm

"Either we do it right or we don't do it at all"

There's a good motto for a good mod .