sloosecannon Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Okay, so I've been digging on the Sins forum, and I found this http://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/305565/page/1/ which is quite nice for background info. My thought is this. Regarding shield mitigation, wouldn't shields in a Star Wars aspect almost be the opposite? By that I mean that under intense fire, shields tend to evaporate, not become more effective. I'm going to test this little theory. I'm gonna try to reverse the mitigation values to have shields start with 65% mitigation and drop under intense fire. I'll post here with my findings. Sins of a Galactic Empire Mod Team Staff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavo Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Shield mitigation is hard coded. Every ship has that 15% mitigation; there is no way around it. I don't know if giving negative mitigation would do anything, mind you. The only faction that has shield mitigation, in the ship entities themselves. is the Vong. Some scouts have it admittedly, why exactly I don't know. Sins of a Galactic Empire staff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sloosecannon Posted January 4, 2012 Author Share Posted January 4, 2012 Well it's hardcoded but the values for the hardcoding are in the entities (specifically the player files...) search shieldData You get: shieldData shieldAbsorbGrowthPerDamage 0.001000 shieldAbsorbDecayRate 0.000000 shieldAbsorbBaseMin 0.150000 shieldColor ffffc705 What I think I'll do (once I copy my beta copy) is change shieldAbsorbBaseMin to 65, change shieldAbsorbDecayRate to like -0.0125 and change shieldAbsorbGrowthPerDamage to -0.001 If they're int values, they *should* accept negatives That means that if your fleet concentrates fire on an enemy ship, instead of its shields getting stronger, they'll get weaker (due to concentrated laser fire which all my sources say causes shield failure) EDIT: and apparently ships do have mitigation (at least in the code... maxMitigation is in the enitites) Sins of a Galactic Empire Mod Team Staff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavo Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 That 15% might be the default shield mitigation... I'll look into this. Edit: Yup, it is. Great find! Sins of a Galactic Empire staff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sloosecannon Posted January 5, 2012 Author Share Posted January 5, 2012 OOOPS...I just messed up... I tweaked the mitigation and look what I did...http://media.moddb.com/images/members/1/280/279139/Thats_not_good.jpg Sins of a Galactic Empire Mod Team Staff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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