Weapon Energy
Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 12:47 pm
I'm just having a play with creating a player/NPC Combat Drone for my next trick (well why should we Thargoid's have all the fun with such things?), and have come across a rather irritating little issue. I was going to have it based on a ECM-hardened missile but with a laser (cue Dr Evil jokes) for some target-blasting first.
However it seems that both the laser damage and the missile yield are controlled by the "weapon_energy" shiplist entry. So I either get a missile-strength laser blast or a laser-strength warhead, which rather makes the thing either far too deadly or too weak. I know I could probably get around it via spawning a missile just before impact, but that seems rather a clunky work-around.
So I was wondering if it would be possible to have different weapon_energy keys for different uses, and indeed perhaps for the different gun mounts too (e.g. have weapon_energy_fore, _aft, _port, _starboard and _missile for example)?
However it seems that both the laser damage and the missile yield are controlled by the "weapon_energy" shiplist entry. So I either get a missile-strength laser blast or a laser-strength warhead, which rather makes the thing either far too deadly or too weak. I know I could probably get around it via spawning a missile just before impact, but that seems rather a clunky work-around.
So I was wondering if it would be possible to have different weapon_energy keys for different uses, and indeed perhaps for the different gun mounts too (e.g. have weapon_energy_fore, _aft, _port, _starboard and _missile for example)?