Quoting GoaFan77, reply 375

So with enough buffs it maybe possible.

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One MILLION buffs...and we will call it, The Alan Parsons Project!

My goal is to have a variety of planet bonuses that can simulate solar flares, planet and radiation storms, etc.--all strong enough to do things like destroy scouts, stop colonization, prevent combat, etc. but to have them randomly appear so players can't simply sit and wait for a predictable rotation.

I think I can feel my headache already.  Ow.

No Ryat...I was sirius.

Fine I

C-C-C-Combo Breaker!

If my logic is correct, its more like 3x+c function, where x is the number of different "phases" you have that rotate between each other. For each phase one buff applies the chance buff right away and then waits until the buff ends after t seconds to apply the buff for the next phase. In the chance buff, you simply have an ApplyBuff instant action with an on chance, which if successful finally applies the buff that does whatever effect you want.

Of course you may need a few additional buffs to start the cycle or to apply the solar flair particle effect, which would be the constant c, but whats one or two more buffs right?

One thing I've noticed with the AI... It doesn't "know" when ships are effected by the DisablePhaseJump modifier; it just acts as if it is nonexistent. It's a rather glaring issue, and I was wondering if anyone here has any idea if it's possible to make the AI "see" this condition and act accordingly?

Edit: If this is a hardcoded AI issue I got a suggestion for the devs; when ships are effected by this connection, don't let the player (AI or human) issue a phase jump order, and if any are active, to cancel it. While of course one could script some complex behavior for the AI, this would at the very least make the AI not sit around like ducks in a barrel while they get pummeled.

so ... all I have to do as a player to stop an entire enemy fleet from running away is disable a capital ship?

If you spam gravity mines the AI won't be able to ever escape.

Ok...it's official...I am suing you for mental anguish.

FYI...if anyone would like to suggest any specific posts that are uniquely helpful to modder's I'll attach them at the head of this thread.  Thanks.

I'll take this as encouragement that I should make a text book on Modding Algebra. Yet another subject for math teachers to torture their students with.

Little does he know I failed two years of algebra in H.S. ....grrrrrrr.

How do I make one ship from one faction become another factions ship if at all ? or at least duplicate the ship into another faction?

Step by step would be greatly appreciated ie in what order to edit what files with what information.

Bear in mind I know only bare minimums of modding. Ive read how to make a ship but not how to swap one from one faction to another or how to make them associated with another faction.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

If you want to make say, transfer the Cobalt to the Vasari, you'll do the following:

Take FrigateTechLight (the cobalt's entity file) from the gameinfo folder.  Ordinarily, this is just referenced in the entity.manifest and PlayerTech.entity, but you'll want to reference it in PlayerPhase.entity under FrigateInfo.  Put it on page 0 with the other files and increase the count by one.  Play game.

In the player.entity file (TECH.entity, Psi.entity etc.), all of the ships that a faction can build are defined near the beginning of the file. Just add the name of the ship entity to the proper section (it will be obvious when you see it) and it will be buildable. Capitalships obviously go in the capital ship section, frigates frigate page 1, and cruisers frigate page 2.

Very cool, thanks!

Appreciate the answers!

Algebra is one of the reasons why I dropped out of H.S.

My first year of Algebra I thought it ws insanely easy--until I got my grade average which was...16 (of 100).  The teacher was new in a new school and class full of jocks and cried at her desk everyday.  I learned nothing.  My father then forced me to take Algebra II and the teacher's first words on the first day were, "Transfer immediately from this class if math isn't going to be your major in college."  My average at the end of the year was 34.

The following year, my dad made me repeat algebra and in my first after school study with the teacher his words to me were, "I never really wanted to teach people like you--I wanted to teach gifted classes in math."  Year-end average, 50.

I estimate that in another two years I might have graduated with a 70.  So I can understand young, frustrated modders here--which I am.  

I found all math extremely easy  .

All through school I was handed my assignments and shown the door.

You can do insane geometry with your models but algebra was too much?

For pretty much all of Algebra II in HS I would make little programs that would just need me to plug in all the information the exercises gave me and then immediately spit out an answer in the exact format the book wanted. Granted I think most people would agree if you can program a computer to do something you must be able to do it yourself, put who does manual calculations these days?

Brain is just like any other muscle. Don't use it, you lose it. I try to do a lot in my head and check the work just to keep me sharp.

Canadian news just did a story that kids are not even learning to write any more. WTF is that? Give a high-school student a pen and he looks like a retarded 6 year old. My writing is fairly sloppy but legible and I took drafting so I had to learn to print like a typewriter.

Well, geometry is just pressing extrude and moving stuff around, no math involved. Algebra never even made the slightest shred of sense to me.

Also, I've never been able to so much as print, much less write, much less read writing.

I am a male result of math anxiety--something that affected girls predominately and occurred more often in the years when the method of teaching math was radically changed.  Having a teacher for first, second, third and fourth grade who pinched me, slapped me on the head or hit me with a yardstick while calling me stupid when I got an answer wrong at the black board in front of the class didn't help much.

I'm a straight A student in math--once I understand it.  I didn't figure out how multiplication worked until the summer before fourth grade.  I had simply memorized the multiplication tables by rote to high levels but had no idea what made it work.  I knew I couldn't memorize answers for fourth grade because I'd be dealing with six+ digit numbers so I figured it out by myself at home.

Math anxiety is essentially a mental block that functions pretty much like a phobia.  For me, it's like giant iron doors of a castle slowly closing as the numbers drone on. Ironically, I get the same effect sometimes reading posts on here...haha.

Calculus was fun for me!

edit: Though I have forgotten most of it.

Piracy tends to make you forget math you space rat.

You remind me of my girlfriend when you talk like that. 

While I'm off double specializing in computer science and double minoring, she decides to double major in CS and math...  Ugh...  I don't see how people can like that stuff so dang much.

I took calc I and II in high school (along with basically every other AP and duel credit course we had, even if it only existed because I took it), but hated every moment of it.  I hate calc so freaking much.  I'm taking it and being done with it.  Of course, after that, I'm taking AI's, Compilers, and Linear Algebra, so those might be (and probably will be) worse.

Oh well.. At the end of it all, I'll have a double specialty in AI's and Computer Graphics with minors in psych and philosophy.  Hopefully the math isn't more than a speed bump along the way.

And guess who wants to develop video games    

(Seriously, how many other fields would ever have those two things required?)