Starship cannons

[kaja]

I was wondering if there's any way to make starships and stuffs fire like every 2 secconds? Do I set it to 1 or 32000? Thanks for the help.

 

P.S. What dose Damage Control do?

[Jin_Roh]

I believe that the higher the weapon recharge rate, the faster the ship can fire. Not sure what the maximum value is or what kind of rate of fire that will translate to.

 

Damage control is the ability of a ship to repair itself, the higher the number the better.

[ElvisMiggell]

And if you want to start messing around with power, don't set it to 32000, set it to 5000-15000 and then you can still fire more often.

[Spike2000]

Recharge rate appears to be proportional to the ship's firepower.

 

Examples:

 

Ship A: Firepower 100, Recharge Rate 10

Ship B: Firepower 100, Recharge Rate 1

 

Ship A fires 10x faster than ship B.

 

Ship C: Firepower 1000, Recharge Rate 100

Ship D: Firepower 1000, Recharge Rate 10

 

Ship C fires 10x faster than Ship D.

Ships A and C fire at the same rate, as do ships B and D.

 

Imagine it working like this: Every time the ship fires, it's weapon battery is emptied. It will only refire when it is fully recharged. It's recharge rate is the amount of power that builds up in the battery every second. (or cycle, or tick, or whatever unit of time it works on..)

 

Hope this helps

[Texas_Fett]

Okay, quick question. Is possible to give capital ships torpedoes?

 

I thought I remembered sometime back that someone mentioned something about finding a way to give fighters turbolasers (searched for the thread; no dice), so I thought this would follow. Any takers?

[Trejiuvanat]

I think it was vadunkok who figured that out. Mask will know....

[Texas_Fett]

That's what I figured, but I thought someone else might know. The real problem is waiting for Mask to do his 1999th & 2000th posts so he'll answer threads like these; gotta make those next two posts special, right? Ah, who am I kidding? I'd be doing the same thing in his position...

 

It's not a burning question, though. Otherwise I'd bug him with another e-mail.

[the_mask]

Sorry, I already wanted to write in this thread, but it somehow slipped my mind again.

 

But you gotta admit, that these two posts were special, huh ?

Actually I needed time to complete my new avatar and then start again from scratch. Also the new rank symbol took some time, but was done faster than the avatar. The new footer image was a bi-product of this

 

But to finally answer your question it was vakundok and he called them turbolasers and also heavy bombs, IIRC. I think it was in the Mechanic's thread. You needed to change some bytes in the fighters dat file to enable them for a fighter. Never tried it, but if vakundok found it, then it will work

[Texas_Fett]

Hmm...{Scanning the 'Mechanics - inside Rebellion' thread}...nope, nada.

 

Ah, well. It's no big deal, really. Just a hypothetical. Thank you, Mask my friend!

[the_mask]

On the first page, the post starts with:

 

Fighters (family 28 )

 

Fightsd.dat (in DWORDs unless specified)

Header: 1,8,28,32

Structure (42):

...

...

 

at the bottom he talks about the heavy bombs. I think it was somewhere in the bytes from 20-31, cause 3 kinds x 3 arcs would be 9 values, not 11

[Texas_Fett]

{checks lenses & settings inside my Mandalorian helmet for a malfunction}

...

{Reads the thread again}

...

Oh, THAT! Got it! I guess I was thinking of a specific conversation in which giving fighter's turbolasers was mentioned.

[vakundok]

As long as I know, there is no way to give torpedoes to the capital ships. They do not have place for that in their statistics.

 

The statistics of the fighters however do have place for turbolasers. I gave 10 turbolaser firepower to TIE fighters and attacked Coruscant with a corvette to see the result. In less than five seconds, before the ISD could come into range, the corvette was destroyed. But the in-game statistics do not show turbolasers for fighters (similarly to the torpedoes), so I instead refer to them as heavy bombs.

 

Mask: four arcs, not only three! And 12 values, not only 11! 20,21,22 | 23,24,25 | 26,27,28 | 29,30,31. But otherwise correct, the values 20, 23, 26 and 29 are the turbolaser firepowers.

[the_mask]

Mask: four arcs, not only three! And 12 values, not only 11! 20,21,22 | 23,24,25 | 26,27,28 | 29,30,31. But otherwise correct, the values 20, 23, 26 and 29 are the turbolaser firepowers.

You know I tend to make these Obi-one (off-by-one) errors

But maybe I should create a patch someday, for my Missile boats

[Floros]

How do I change my Avatar with a pic I have stored on my desktop?[/img]

[the_mask]

Well, apart from the fact, that this is far off-topic ,

you need to upload that pic on some webspace (that allows remote linking) and insert the link in your profile (on the top, forums menu -> profile)

[Lord_La_forge]

Well, apart from the fact, that this is far off-topic ,

you need to upload that pic on some webspace (that allows remote linking) and insert the link in your profile (on the top, forums menu -> profile)

 

Perhaps he has an avatar with a Starhip Cannon