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Cycerin

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Custom defense type names
« on: February 18, 2014, 05:03:01 AM »

It's quite possible to use a dummy Phase Cloak to implement interesting modding-based things. Right now, if I have a ship that uses a phase cloak, the DEFENSE: info readout of the ship will just say PHASE CLOAK. If I wanted it to say, for instance, PHASE WARP or SCALAR REJECTOR instead, would this be possible? Just pull from the name in the .csv?
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Re: Custom defense type names
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2014, 09:41:22 AM »

Warning:  using that DEFENSE field will not get along happily with Vanilla AI.  The AI assumes that if that System is in use, the ship cannot be hit, amongst other issues.  It's pretty much guaranteed to not be "Vanilla Compatible", unless the System's design is meant to deny hits for a little bit.

This is something Alex can fix, but it's going take some work refactoring the AI. 

It's pretty much why I ended up writing a new AI for Vacuum.
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