Some Ideas for Improving the Full Version of Star Fury.

TNZ · #1 October 14th, 2003, 05:06 AM

One, friendly fire need to be look at, would it be possible to make it so that a ship need to be targeted by the player to become hostile if hit. Two, running in to planets and asteroids happen to frequently, may be making planets and asteroids brighter and bigger would help, also increasing the distance at which one can shuttle over to 50 or 60 would help. Three, the ability to set a navigation point on the main map which you can see/follow some how in flight mode, a second needle on the ships compass perhaps?
Four, Torpedo�s are so slow you can fire them and run into them, really didn�t mean to self terminate my ship!?!?

Mehrunes · #2 October 14th, 2003, 05:43 AM

You could try increasing the gamma setting in your display properties. If you're desperate you could try increasing the Star Ambient Color setting at the beginning of each Map_* file (you'd have to restart for the changes to take effect though). That sets the base lighting level in system, a value of 255, 255, 255 would make everything in the system fully lit from all sides.

Torps have base speed of 0.8 ( 800 in-game ), the speed setting for Bolts and Torpedoes is in the Main_BitmapEffects.txt file. They seem pretty good to me, but I'm flying around in a battleship with a top speed of 600.

I think adding waypoints on the nav map would be an excellent addition. Hopefully that makes it in.

[ October 14, 2003, 04:47: Message edited by: Mehrunes ]

DarkStar · #3 October 14th, 2003, 05:46 AM

I really like the navigation point idea that you had. It would be very helpful if when given quests to be able to 'assign' the waypoint to the object of the quest. Could be you pick the quest and then press 'assign nav point', then it would place the point, on the ship, or planet you need to go to. Could be very useful...

Phoenix-D · #4 October 14th, 2003, 05:52 AM

Its fairly easy- and probably a good idea- to increase the torp speeds. Just don't crank it TOO high. I set it to 200 (default, as said, is .8) and the things were blowing right past the launcher..no effect on either end. Ooops.

EDIT: also keep in mind that more speed = less time to impact = less effective point defense

[ October 14, 2003, 04:52: Message edited by: Phoenix-D ]

narf poit chez BOOM · #5 October 14th, 2003, 08:12 AM

the torp speed should be set in the weapon description.

also, if it looked at which ship targeted, you could target a ship with a torp, launch and then click on something else. the torp would have to carry a variable of what it was launched at.

Suicide Junkie · #6 October 14th, 2003, 12:37 PM

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Originally posted by TNZ:
One, friendly fire need to be look at, would it be possible to make it so that a ship need to be targeted by the player to become hostile if hit. Two, running in to planets and asteroids happen to frequently, may be making planets and asteroids brighter and bigger would help, also increasing the distance at which one can shuttle over to 50 or 60 would help. Three, the ability to set a navigation point on the main map which you can see/follow some how in flight mode, a second needle on the ships compass perhaps?
Four, Torpedo’s are so slow you can fire them and run into them, really didn’t mean to self terminate my ship!?!?

There is a key to increse ambient lighting... K/J IIRC.
Shuttle distances are set in the map files.
And Nav Points are on the to-do/wanted list.

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also, if it looked at which ship targeted, you could target a ship with a torp, launch and then click on something else. the torp would have to carry a variable of what it was launched at.

It already does, since it only seeks after the ship it was launched at.

Suicide Junkie · #7 October 14th, 2003, 03:06 PM

OOh! What if missiles were programmed to avoid obstacles? Almost like a ramming fighter type deal.

Would make hiding in asteroid belts and behind planets quite useless, but would solve your problem.

Baron Munchausen · #8 October 14th, 2003, 05:10 PM

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Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
Its fairly easy- and probably a good idea- to increase the torp speeds. Just don't crank it TOO high. I set it to 200 (default, as said, is .8) and the things were blowing right past the launcher..no effect on either end. Ooops.

EDIT: also keep in mind that more speed = less time to impact = less effective point defense

Since fighters have a speed of 1.5 it does seem logical to speed up missiles and torps. But 200??? Yikes! How about 2.0 for torps and 1.2 to 1.5 for missiles. Beams ought to be really, really fast but even for those I doubt that more than 5.0 or so is necessary.

Alpha Kodiak · #9 October 14th, 2003, 05:45 PM

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Originally posted by TNZ:
One, friendly fire need to be look at, would it be possible to make it so that a ship need to be targeted by the player to become hostile if hit. Two, running in to planets and asteroids happen to frequently, may be making planets and asteroids brighter and bigger would help, also increasing the distance at which one can shuttle over to 50 or 60 would help. Three, the ability to set a navigation point on the main map which you can see/follow some how in flight mode, a second needle on the ships compass perhaps?
Four, Torpedo�s are so slow you can fire them and run into them, really didn�t mean to self terminate my ship!?!?

I totally agree about the friendly fire. I had an incident recenty in my destroyer being swarmed by pirate fighters where my autofiring PDC missed a fighter and hit a Terran battleship, which immediately went hostile and blew me away. That seemed a bit touchy to me.

Phoenix-D · #10 October 14th, 2003, 11:46 PM

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Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:

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Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
Its fairly easy- and probably a good idea- to increase the torp speeds. Just don't crank it TOO high. I set it to 200 (default, as said, is .8) and the things were blowing right past the launcher..no effect on either end. Ooops.

EDIT: also keep in mind that more speed = less time to impact = less effective point defense

Since fighters have a speed of 1.5 it does seem logical to speed up missiles and torps. But 200??? Yikes! How about 2.0 for torps and 1.2 to 1.5 for missiles. Beams ought to be really, really fast but even for those I doubt that more than 5.0 or so is necessary.

I was doing a test. My usual procedure is to crank the value to something absolutely ridiclous, in order to make it EXTREMELY obvious what that particular function does. At the time I wasn't sure if that line controled projectile speed or animation speed.