Log for Chat With Aaron

[AAshbery76]

It was interesting the lack of communication between Aaron and his beta testers, he didn't know anything about saves being sent for instance by his core testers.

[Kana]

So anyone try to mod the component slots yet?

[20:58] Combat_Wombat: ekolis asks: Any chance of being able to mod the decks of ships (add/remove decks in mod datafiles, perhaps based on ship size) and the component layers (inner/outer/armor)?
[20:59] Malfador: You can mod the component layers now. The decks requires a change in the UI.
[20:59] ekolis: you CAN mod the component layers eh...
[21:00] Malfador: Can't you??
[21:00] FyronAtSchool: SJ has modded slot types for his GGMod, IIRC
[21:00] SuicideJunkie: As far as I can tell, only the layout can be edited... you can't mod in engine slots, for example.
[21:01] Malfador: You should be able to mod in any kind of slots you want.
[21:01] SuicideJunkie: There are only three names in the mainstrings.txt, however.
[21:01] AtrocitiesPCP: To bad the slots are all automated or have automated tags so that when you click on a compoents, it is added to the hull in the correct location
[21:02] ekolis: too bad - that would be a timesaver if he could do that
Malfador: Somebody try to mod the component slots, and then send me an example of what's not working.

[Phoenix-D]

It doesn't work. You go to open a ship type with the new slots and it says: "Unknown Value "Engine" for Slot 3 Ship Section in record "Frigate Layout".

Emailed my attempt and a description to MM.

[Captain Kwok]

The MainStrings.txt file doesn't support the names for new slots and that is probably the cause of the error.

[Phoenix-D]

Probably. I did add new entries to the file, but they were ignored.