how the battle engine works

[Lord Philemon]

[administrator]

you are right, you must invent the projectile first, also with attack- and LP.

(that`s why it is so complicated for us to calculate a manpower automatically with the "calc" button)

[Lord Philemon]

And how do you make a ship destroy itself? For example the kamikaze?

[ This Message was edited by: Lord Philemon on 2002-08-25 19:20 ]

[spacetrace]

it is a short command:

sd

(selfdestruction)

[Lord Philemon]

ok thanks

[admin]

there was some discussion in this post too:
how about custom ships


the triggered effects are added for example like this:
f|trigger_jam@mod,enemy,2,this,all,+,0,-1100
this ship would destroy two enemy ships if it gets jammed

there are some more triggers:
trigger_jam if this ship is jammed
trigger_rec if this ship is reconstructed
trigger_plus if this ships LP or AP are increased or decreased
trigger_blast if this ship is hit by a blast-ship
trigger_hit if this ship is hit
trigger_destruction if this ship gets destroyed
trigger_multiply if this ships LP or AP get multiplied

[admin]

[Lord Philemon]

I see.

(Just wondered where the topic went...)

[admin]

there was another question from Lord Philamon:

[spacetrace]

shuffle should be clear now

but there is another command: event,x

if event is standing prefix, the following command will not executed immedeatly.

it will be executed after the whole class battle x

for example, the mine deployer don't need to shuffle every time it deploys a mine, it is only needed after the class 1 battle is resolved.

but in the case of the l-prom this is an error, it need to shuffle it every time, or only the first two ships will be upgraded all the time.

we fixed that, thx

[admin]

there is a new feature in the ship constructor:

you can construct the modifyer of the ship now with a compfortable constructor where you can see all possibilities in the battle-engine.

check your research screen
(only available, if you researched at least 15 researches)

[admin]

these are new options in the battle syntax

[admin]

now the construction screen is complete.

all triggered effects are added now

[Lord Philemon]

Cool
How about adding them to the example sections?

[limsky]

Which part of the manual shows the battle engine format of each ship and building?

[limsky]

Sorry phase the question wrongly. Some ship does not have battle syntax.
Where to find what "other" races can research on certain ship e.g. Mantis -- could not find it in the manual.

[Lord Philemon]

If you want to see the battle syntaxes of the ships (btw: all ships have syntaxes) you have to go to "ships" in the manual. Then click on the shipname from which you want to know the syntax and on "view battle details" in the second window.

[admin]

you can also press on "view all ships with details":

http://manual.spacetrace.org/ship.php?details=1&lang=en

[Guest]

Here's a pretty cool building I came up with. Here's the full text:

if there are no more corrections needed
press ´request´ to start the research

this would be the research:
Research: name: improved clone labs
description: human advances in the studies of the clone labs found on izzur-duuf have shown that the humans¸ inferior physical structure can be artificially grown more efficiently than the other species. while the communal mind needed for the original clone labs is still required, the advances allow for a total of a 30% increase in the population growth, while the extra manpower needed remains the same.
researchtime: 2 h
needed technology: clone labs
type: ship
scanradius: 0
speed: 0
races: humans
class: 1
warp: 0
modifier:
AP: 0
LP: 0
manpower: 1
buildingtime: 2 h
picture:

the translation of the modifier is:
battle engine syntax:

LMK if a) I got the name of the Clone Labs planet right, b) there's any way that this can get into the game, or c) if I need to change anything. Thanks!


[ This Message was edited by: admin on 2003-02-03 13:49 ]

[Metody I The Evil]

Is there a trigger for being hit by a certain ship, like:

trigger_hit_by(fighter) or something like that? or

trigger_hit_by_class(3)?

and can there be two triggers used - for example if the ship is hit by a shock-wave and after that destroyed by a normal attack, then kill a cruiser /for example/? So it kills the cruiser only if it's hit and destroyed, not if it's hit or destroyed?