Planet Abilities

Wenin · #1 April 14th, 2006, 08:34 PM

Is it possible to have planets with more than one ability?

Suicide Junkie · #2 April 14th, 2006, 10:07 PM

Multiple abilities are easy to add in the map editor.
Randomly generated planets only get zero or one abilities, though.

Randallw · #3 April 14th, 2006, 11:24 PM

I practically never make use of the special abilities of planets as they are usually useless. 10% extra mining is no use when the planet has only a concentration of 8 in the first place. That said I did have trouble with an enemy planet in one game because it cancelled out the shields of my attacking fleet.

Suicide Junkie · #4 April 15th, 2006, 12:31 AM

Oh.

What you might try, is specifying storms in the same sector as the planet in systemtypes.txt

The storms can then contribute extra sector-effects, such as shield disruption/boosting, damage, cloaking, etc.

Fyron · #5 April 15th, 2006, 03:34 AM

Randallw said:
10% extra mining is no use when the planet has only a concentration of 8 in the first place.

If you are refering to the facility ability placed on a planet object itself, this does not actually work.

Wenin · #6 April 15th, 2006, 10:42 AM

The only abilities you can give to a planet are those abilities usable in the StellarAbilityTypes.txt file?

Captain Kwok · #7 April 15th, 2006, 11:08 AM