Mount restriction

Timstone · #1 July 2nd, 2004, 11:15 AM

I have a mount and that mount must be available only to one race. How do I do that?

I have no racial specific tech to bind it to. So how do I solve this?

dogscoff · #2 July 2nd, 2004, 11:57 AM

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I have a mount and that mount must be available only to one race. How do I do that?

I have no racial specific tech to bind it to. So how do I solve this?

As far as I know the ONLY way to create a race-specific technology is to use racial techs. You'll need to create a new racial tech and put your mount in that tech tree.

Or, if I'm misunderstanding you, you need to create a hull size that ONLY your race can research (ie a destroyer of 301kt that can only be built by your race) na drestrict your mount to that size (this mount can only be used on hulls of exactly 301kt.)

geoschmo · #3 July 3rd, 2004, 01:17 AM

You can have a racial research tech area that does not have any actual technology resulting from it and give your mount that tech area as a requirment. It will work, but when researching the tech nothing will show in the "expected results" area in the research screen and your log will not have a message that the new mount is available, although you will get the log msg that the tech area was researched. (EDIT: According to the history.txt this problem was patched out, but I don't recall actually trying it since then. SO I can't say for sure. This might not be a problem anymore.)

If the lack of those is a problem, you could make a dummy component that is called "XYZ Mount" that will give the player something to look at in the log. In the comp details just put a note that this comp is not to be actually used or something. It's not a perfect system, but it works.

If the idea was to give the racial player access to it without having to research, you can't reallly do that I don't think. But you could make the tech are very cheap to research, 1 point even.

[ July 02, 2004, 12:22: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

Ed Kolis · #4 July 2nd, 2004, 06:54 PM

FYI, Geo, what happens with researching mounts is, they show up in the expected results, but when you research the tech you only get the "XYZ Tech Area Researched" and not the "ABC Mount Discovered"

geoschmo · #5 July 2nd, 2004, 07:00 PM

Ok. Would what I suggested work, ie making a do nothing component called "ABC Mount" just so you get the log message that it's available? THen you wouldn't use the comp, but actually the mount when designing you ships.

That should work, if anyone doesn't like the fact that you don't get the log message that you have a new mount available.

Timstone · #6 July 3rd, 2004, 05:58 PM

Thanks for the answers. I couldn't answer you guys yesterday, busy at work.

Damn, I was afraid of that. I'll just make a do nothing research thingy available only to that race. This is really a pity. I hope they solved these kind of problems in SE V without making the things you need to edit too much (nobody likes the idea to edit several 100 seperate lines of a components/facility/mount/etc.).