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AxleMC131

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Fair enough. Well in that case I hope the base mining strength of the ships that did have the nodes comes down accordingly, since these ships would now logically be more reliant on player-installed equipment.

Depends how much of an effect you think they play. The Sturm' (S) and the Starlifter are both losing their nodes and not getting anything in return; the Triton's nodes have been replaced by built-in Mining Lasers (I'll change this one), and the Katrina is being removed outright.
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Seems reasonable. So the lifter, for instance, should be losing 40 mining strength, correct?
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Seems reasonable. So the lifter, for instance, should be losing 40 mining strength, correct?

... No? The Starlifter is losing the Mining Beam Nodes and the mounts they sit in. It's getting no other changes, so there's no reason to reduce its mining strength.



[Hindsight] The Starlifter only has 10 Mining Beam Node emplacements. What would make removing those worth a reduction of 40 mining strength? Common Mining Lasers are only 1.5 each, and the nodes are much weaker. Even if you assumed an increase in modular weapon slots, 40 is a huge reduction.
« Last Edit: December 14, 2019, 11:31:43 PM by AxleMC131 »
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Well the Triton has 24 with 6 nodes and nothing really else to lend it strength. Given that they're even worse weapons than mining lasers it kind of made sense to me that you'd have balanced them with 4 strength per node in mind. And I figured that since the Lifter was losing these with no compensation, a corresponding reduction in mining strength was warranted. I've stated elsewhere that a capital-size salvage gantry should probably provide no more than 16 strength given the destroyer-sized one on the salvage rig only provides 4, the borers have 9 and even if the Starbreaker has 40 (double a 'normal' large-size weapon that provides mining strength like hammer barrage) that's still just 65 total. Thing is that people can quite easily pile on more mining equipment themselves (especially if they also have HMI), so I'm generally of the opinion that being conservative with how much in-built mining strength ships have is a good idea. I've proposed similar nerfs to the Fishkill (HMI), Chamois (DME), Reaper (JP), and Caravan (Maya), among others.

Fair play to you if you disagree and decide to keep the Lifter at 109 anyway, but hopefully we'll be on the same page now either way. ^^;
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AxleMC131

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I think I see where you're coming from. Let's see if I can't clarify some things here...

"Number of Mining Beam Nodes" has never had any influence on the ships' mining strengths. The weapon was purely designed for flavour and to make those ships a bit more unique. They would always have had the same values whether they had the nodes or not.

I think the Salvage Rig is a pretty poor comparison for balancing mining strength since it's not intended to be a mining ship. The Shepherd is better, since it's more accurately a "mining ship" with the Borer Drones. However, that's a tenuous argument because mining strength is purely mod content, and since the mining strengths for vanilla content were decided on by another (admittedly prolific) modder - and there's only like two vanilla ships that have a strength - there isn't really much to base your values on besides other mods. A lot of my mining strengths start as pretty hand-wavy values and don't get much change before I'm satisfied with them, though I do use said other mods as indicators.

Regardless, that also overlooks a potentially more important argument: you can hum and hah about the face values as much as you like, but in reality mining strength is just one more value to keep in mind alongside everything else. Balancing "in a vacuum" as it is known is strongly discouraged; you should always keep the big picture in mind.

Take the Starlifter for instance: Huge, slow and seriously easy to kill. (Have you played the "Trainwreck" mission?) Plus the ship's designed primarily for mining. It has big weaknesses and big strengths - mining is one of those strengths. I think it's allowed a large base mining strength, and if a player wants to splurge on mining weapons to push it even higher, they pay the price in a lack of defensive weaponry.

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Well I'd argue that having capital-sized gantry and surveying equipment, and relatively beefy cargo and fuel capacity is already a fantastic amount of utility for a non-combat/semi-combat capital to have, and even 50-70 mining strength would still mark it as one of the premiere mining ships across the modiverse even before player-installed equipment, especially if my proposed Fishkill nerf goes through (which indications Alfonzo's been giving me are that it very well might).

Still, like I said, if you decide not to reduce the Lifter and Trion's mining strength, I'll respect that.
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AxleMC131

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I suppose it all depends what your reference frame is for a "high" value. Me, I'm looking at the mod ship ratings defined in Nex's own config file (may not be the most recent version, but not very old), and 100 for a dedicated mining capital ship seems perfectly reasonable to me.

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Does the Black Arrow stealth corvette actually have any sneaky abilities somehow or is it just a shuttle-less version of the red arrow?
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Does the Black Arrow stealth corvette actually have any sneaky abilities somehow or is it just a shuttle-less version of the red arrow?

Indeed it does have sneaky abilities. It has the same Phase Field hullmod that phase ships have, which reduces its sensor profile to zero, and also carries a Phase Skimmer for its active system.
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Hey, I'm trying to set up a lighter version of this mod for my games, is it possible to disable ships im not interested in from spawning?
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AxleMC131

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It is indeed possible.

Those ships that are part of blueprint packages - ie. "common" ships - you can disable by removing them from the blueprints they're attached to. Navigate in DaRa's files to [ data > hulls > ship_data.csv ] and open that file with a spreadsheet editor - Excel or LibreOffice is recommended. Then scroll sideways to the "tags" column and delete the "_bp" tags for the ships you don't want.

Take note though! If a ship has the "rare_bp" tag I'm fairly sure you'll need to perform a separate step. You need to navigate further to [data > world > factions ] and find each of the .faction files for factions that use that ship. (Open these in a raw text editor like Notepad++.) Then you have to find each entry for the ship in their "knownHulls" and delete it. (If it turns out this isn't necessary, then awesome, the game's current faction/ships known/blueprint system is even more cool than I thought!)

With a little trial and error you should be able to do this pretty smoothly. Be sure to make backups before you change any files though!
« Last Edit: February 22, 2020, 12:56:35 PM by AxleMC131 »
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Thanks boss, I take it other mods work this way too? Also, looks like weapon _bp and Wing _bp tags can be removed from the Weapon_Data and Wing_Data .csv files
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AxleMC131

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Thanks boss, I take it other mods work this way too? Also, looks like weapon _bp and Wing _bp tags can be removed from the Weapon_Data and Wing_Data .csv files

Pretty much, and pretty much. Some mods DO have scripted methods for spawning ships/items/whatevers, but such things are rare, and let's be honest, you shouldn't need or want to disable those anyway. ;)
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Hello AxleMC131!

Are the Black Arrow, Nightblade and insurgent secret blueprints or we can't build them by design?

Thank you for your hard work!
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AxleMC131

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Hello AxleMC131!

Are the Black Arrow, Nightblade and insurgent secret blueprints or we can't build them by design?

Thank you for your hard work!

They're "rare_bp" blueprints. You should be able to find them just like any other single ship blueprint, either through faction raiding or outworld salvaging. They are not part of the regular High-Tech blueprint package, if that's what you're implying.

And you are very welcome. :D
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