How to Add Damaging Storms

[Suicide Junkie]

1) Create two new races;
- Natural Phenomena 1
- Natural Phenomena 2
They should be enemies with everyone, including each other.
2) Create an asteroid-shaped satellite for use by the new races. It should have a single, unique slot. The sat should be given an inconspicuous name, like "Storm Asteroid".
3) Create a component for that unique slot which provides tons of hitpoints, regeneration and a beam weapon that looks somewhat like a lightning bolt.
4) Seed certain nebulae with these sats. One race above the xy plane, and one below.

The storm asteroids will zap any ships entering the damaging storm, and when no ships are nearby they will zap each other for ambiance!

[Mephisto]

Cool!

[General Woundwort]

This brings up a question - I know that there is a limit to the number of races that have system map slots (8), but is there any other built-in limit on the number of races?

[Phoenix-D]

I added a ninth with no problem, so you can definitely go over the number of map slots.

EDIT: the problem here is that PD will fire on these. It'd be better to give them a custom type (if possible) or make them a base. That and they'll show up on radar.

[ October 27, 2003, 18:41: Message edited by: Phoenix-D ]

[General Woundwort]

Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
I added a ninth with no problem, so you can definitely go over the number of map slots.

Excellent. This will make things much more interesting in the Triangle Mod...

[atari_eric]

Any pictures?