@General Pants: Thanks a lot for that! Do you know if it would be possible to have it specific for a custom race, like how the effect is only specific to the dread lords, or would that require a hard-coded rewrite (which is impossible right now)?
In the raceconfig xml, most of the minor races are given the tech: [code="xml"] Root [/code]. What does this mean exactly? Are these races given every tech at the beginning of every tech branch? I tried using this on a custom race of mine but it did nothing when I played as them.
How exactly are they a special case? Do you mean their bonuses stay the same for whatever skill level? Or do the DL bonuses have some unique calculation that makes them the way they are?
So with higher skill levels, the DL bonuses increase? I know that they start with every single tech at the start, and I know that when I invaded them once, they had a soldering ability of 311.
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Does anyone know what the exact bonuses the game uses for the Dread Lords? I know they get huge bonuses across the board, but are there exact numbers anyone could give me? Also, do the Dread Lord bonuses increase exponentially overtime?
Any stardock members know how to give other races the red lightning effect when invading another planet?
@ZendoXarth: That screenshot is not mine, it was taken from the Game Example page in the Databanks. From what I have read of that, the player who took this screenshot had to invade more than once before he captured the planet.
I found where the sprite graphic for the beam resides in: GalCiv2\Gfx\Weapons\WFX_PlasmaAndBlast.png but I cannot find the .X file for the Dread Lords style beam, I would think it would be called something like WFX_Blast01.X but it isn't there.
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Ah, this is the effect I'm referring to.
So nobody knows how? C'mon people, help me out here!
The red lightning weapon the Dread Lords use when they invade looks really awesome, and I was wondering if it was possible to be able to have other races use the effect.
I have been trying to find out what the Dread Lord's starting abilities are and the game rules that they work on. From observation, the Dread Lords do not operate like any of the other major or minor races. If anybody could tell me the game mechanics they operate on, it would be greatly appreciated.
