Starsector 0.97a is out! (02/02/24); New blog post: Save/Load UI, Autosave, Intel Map Markers, and More (04/10/24)
Regarding visualization of a star's corona: you might have "god rays" or some such extend out from around ships, achieving a sort of extreme shadowing effect.Hmm - not quite sure exactly what you're describing. Something like an "atmosphere reentry" kind of glow? (I should say, ships already do glow when they enter the corona, but the effect is rather subtle.)
[...] the ability to hide in a gas giant upper atmosphere layers [...] being realistic [...]Wut?
Terrain is a regular entity, so yeah, you could do that. I don't think a different tooltip would be required - you can only see the tooltip once you're already in it, but perhaps you're thinking of this differently than I am.Oh right, I thought tooltips where bound to the terrain all the time like with the fleets... But dynamically changing terrains open a heap of new possibilities (I smell asteroid ring mining coming)
You could probably do it with custom terrain. Don't think it'd be all that complicated, even - just don't render the thing until the player "knows" about it.If it's possible to add and remove terrain on the fly that would be perfect: I could switch from a "Weird looking nebula" terrain to a "Oh my gosh! This is no dust, it's a swarm of hull eating nano-machines!" terrain with the same render but different tooltips.
Yes, terrain is done in a mod-friendly way, including rendering custom graphics. For example, the nebula rendering, both in the main campaign view and on the campaign map, is done *entirely* in plugin implementation code. There's even a nice API for creating custom tooltips.Great! I suppose the basic way would be to assign a/some vanilla types with a scale factor for each... We could even create a modding library like lazyLib with custom types to call.
One issue might be making fleet AI aware of new terrain types - looking at some options there.
Automatically known - nebulas and asteroids show up on the map. Rings don't, but they probably/maybe will eventually. In any case, none of that is subject to sensor interactions, you just see it and can tell what it is based on the graphics. Once you're in it, it shows up on the "current terrain" list above the ability bar and you can see the exact effects in the tooltip there.Dang it. I'm sure I could have used that for a secret project I'm working on.
Neat ideas, yeah. Trying to keep it simple for now, but can see adding more terrain later. (Particularly keen on "battle graveyards", though they wouldn't necessarily be expressed as terrain - but perhaps they could.)Yeah, adding all of them would be too much anyway, just dumping ideas in case one grab your attention. Mods will do the rest ^^
), it seems I was too eager to release it for Everlazy's next play-through... The best weapon Scy has to offer never spawn in markets, and that's just sad. Anyway, I updated the uploaded mod so you can re-download it, or simply overwrite the data/weapons/weapon_data.csv with this one (it won't break anything):
V0.93
NEW CONTENT
- SuFi redesign: it lost a hardpoint but gained a full coverage turret to help it in it's escort role.
- Also added a new fighter beam weapon.
BALANCING
- Coasting missiles are now "remote controlled". That is only one volley per weapon can be in flight at any time.
- Coasting missiles damage increased from 400 to 750. (now effectively a long range Harpoon that can't be spammed on vulnerable targets)
- New very accurate AI for the guided Rockets.
- Decreased Rockets launching speed and top speed but increased their maneuverability. Also increased their cooldown.
- Shuffled all fighters load-outs.
- Various adjustments on fighter weapons.
- Increased the number of rays emitted by all the Laser Torpedoes warhead.
BUGFIXES/IMPROVEMENTS
- Small adjustments to the coasting missile AI.
- Finally fixed the Siren and Khalkotauroi cruiser not using their main weapons at their full potential.
- Removed the built-in weapon of the Baliuses, added a universal slot instead.
But I strongly dislike backgrounds like this. I had serious trouble playing that mission because I could barely see anything, and I ended up skipping it.That's pretty much why I put it for the first mission. In later fleet battles you just burn your eyes trying to see anything.
In any case, 100 green crew gives you 1.4 logistics capacity, regular gives 1.65, veteran gives 1.85, and elites give 2. As a result, each 100 green crew is a net +0.4 logistics capacity, regular is +0.65, veteran is +0.85, and elite is +1. The excess crew is always taken from the bottom of your pool; if you have 300 elite, 300 green, and 400 skeleton crew, you have 200 green excess.
This is normally enough to boost up fleet size to 125 or something, at the cost of doubling (or worse) your daily upkeep costs.