Station Designing

designing a station

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Here i have an idea: What if someone would make a mod with what you can design your own starbase, becouse it's boring to always have the same starbase and not being enabled to get a new one or adding some goofy things on the starbase.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Aren't the stations just ships that don't show up in the ship-build menu? I am not sure on this because I have not looked it up. It would be really really cool if you could do this, Kryo or one of the other "Mods" on this forum please respond:)

GalenEvil
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Aren't the stations just ships that don't show up in the ship-build menu? I am not sure on this because I have not looked it up.


i believe that was the original intention, but i'm pretty sure that's not how it worked out. i believe due to technical reason, starbases ended up being significantly different system than ships. in either respect, i don't believe you can mod SBs in the way the OP suggested. you can mod the modules and numbers associated with them, and i believe you can mod the SB's base HP and base cost curve (not sure about those -- Kryo?).

personally, i'd be happy with XML for modules that'd increase HP.
Galactic Civilizations III
Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
You can mod a starbase's base HP by pointing the definition in GC2Ships.xml to a new hull you add in GC2Types.xml and giving that hull whatever HP you want (by default it uses the HP of a large hull).

You can set the extra construction fee for modules in StarbaseModules.xml.

There is no code to add a module that increases starbase HP.

Starbases cannot be designed directly through the game, however if you design a ship then find and copy the shipcfg file for that design over one of the starbase shipcfg files in Data\ShipCfg, it will make that starbase type/level look like that design. Note that this only applies to the appearance, you cannot make a starbase have the function of the parts you put on that design (weapons/defenses/etc).
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
EDIT: Kryo, you got in before me .
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
So basically we make a ship that looks like a starbase and copy over a starbase we find icky and the starbase will from then on look like that ship design? If I understood what you said, Kryo. But now the question I have to ask is, how does the adding of module's affect the look or do they not show up?


Kyle (who is currently designing starbases in his mind)
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
So basically we make a ship that looks like a starbase and copy over a starbase we find icky and the starbase will from then on look like that ship design?


Yep.

If I understood what you said, Kryo. But now the question I have to ask is, how does the adding of module's affect the look or do they not show up?


Starbase modules don't appear on the starbase model either way; there are just five preset 'levels' for each starbase type, and as you add more modules the model used will change to higher level versions (I don't know the exact level thresholds off hand).
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Can't anyone of you make a mod wich enables you to construct a starbase (the look not the modules) just like the ship builder? that would realy rock ^^