Shipp Addon Question

posted on November 20th, 2006, 7:11 pm

nope, the attributes do directly affect a units behaivor in battle and do show its strength and weaknesses.
the balancing table has nothing to do with the odfs. most of the odfs are currently auto generated by some tools we wrote for ourselves to make managing all the stuff easier. thats why you might find some values there which do not have direct influence on armada. these values are ment for our tools which fill in the rest of the odfs.

posted on November 20th, 2006, 7:33 pm

Ah, okay, that makes sense... I have HTML templates that do the same thing

So I know what offense and defense do, but what does the system value represent?

posted on November 20th, 2006, 8:24 pm

Ah, okay, that makes sense... I have HTML templates that do the same thing

So I know what offense and defense do, but what does the system value represent?

I would assume either special weapon energy or the value of the defense involved with life support etc.

posted on November 21st, 2006, 5:41 am

Yep, higher system values mean higher special energy regeneration rates and increase the hull and shield repair rates

posted on December 4th, 2006, 9:02 am

Okay, that all makes sense...

Now, back to the question that started thsis thread..? how does one plug a mod-ship into the game. I tried editing the ODF's, Techtree, and sod; but no go, my Cheyenne is still not buildable in the game in the ship yard I modded for it. (and it's difficult to differentiate between the three fed yards anyways)

So, if one of our fearless programmers could et us know if this is even possible I'm sure it would be greatly appreciated.

posted on December 4th, 2006, 12:37 pm

You will have to add your unit to all of the yard instances in order to make it appear in any condition

posted on December 5th, 2006, 9:59 pm

make it buildable by every yard (of the same type) so it will appear regardless of which avatar you choose.

so i think this would include for example:

fyard (used as a basis for the others i think)
fyardy (avatar 1)
fyardz (avatar 2)