Ship Types?

I did a search and found nothing. I was wondering if there is only 2 ship types: frigate, and capital? Could you add cruiser?

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Reply #1 Top

Cruisers are already in, they are just clumped with frigates. It's mostly an engine classification, really a frigate can be any ship. Those missile platforms the Sova deploys, and siege platforms from Vulkoras - those are "frigate" types, too.

It's a classification so the engine knows how to treat the entity. Frigate types can be assigned to the frigate factory, while Capital types go to the capital ship factory. Capital types can have levels, Frigate types can't - things like that.

Reply #2 Top

You can modify their location in the Player(Insert race here) entity file. Just copy-paste the ship you want into the page 1-2 or capital in which you want to see it! Don't forget to change shipcount if you add/remove ships!

tab 1: Frigates

tab 2: Cruisers, support

Capital Ship: Well says it all...

Reply #3 Top

Cool thanks guys. Now how about abilities. Say you want a certian type of ion cannon to only affect the cruisers. How do you do this when they are all frigates?

Reply #4 Top

Well, you don't :P The possible targets can be: frigates, capital ships, orbital structures, strikecraft, and planets. Don't think I missed any.

Reply #5 Top

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So you can't make them specific to a name?

 

 

NOOOooooooo

Reply #6 Top

Ok thats what I thought. Thanks Annatar and Shadow

Reply #7 Top

My pleasure MindsEye...

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