Weapon Targets

Val · #1 February 2nd, 2002, 04:17 AM

Does anyone know if there is a way to make a weapon able to target everything *except* planets?

I see : Ships, Planets, Ships\Planets, Ships\Planets\Ftr\Sat, Seekers, Ftr\Sat\Seekers.

But I don't see anyway to have a weapon able to target Ships\Ftr\Sat\Seekers.

I am also guessing that Sats includes Mines?

Anybody have any ideas?

The only thing I came up with is to add plan shield to all planets and make the value so high that normal weapons can't get through (unless a MASSIVE amount is used) and then increasing all planetary assault weapons by that shield value, but I'm not even sure that would do it.

Suicide Junkie · #2 February 2nd, 2002, 04:24 AM

Unfortunately, your planets would still have to worry about phased weapons & null-space.

As an alternative, try increasing the hitpoints of raw population by 50x.
Add a platform mount to increase their hitpoints by 50x as well.

Then, increase the damage from planetary weapons (or shrink them, allowing more on a ship)
Remember that SE4 will get an RCE if the damage (after adding mounts) exceeds 64K!

Fyron · #3 February 2nd, 2002, 05:12 AM

You can make planetary shield generators have phased shields.

Q · #4 February 2nd, 2002, 07:08 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
You can make planetary shield generators have phased shields.

How??

Suicide Junkie · #5 February 2nd, 2002, 07:10 AM

by using "phased shield generation" rather than "planet - shield generation"

Andr�s · #6 February 2nd, 2002, 04:54 PM

You can't have a weapon that can shoot at anything including seekers making the user not need PDC.

Q · #7 February 2nd, 2002, 10:59 PM

quote:
Originally posted by suicide_junkie:
by using "phased shield generation" rather than "planet - shield generation"

Did you test if this is working?
The phased shield ability is a component ability and as you know abilities of components and facilities frequently do not function if you assign it to the other group.

Fyron · #8 February 2nd, 2002, 11:04 PM

Yeah, phased shield generation works for facilities. I've tested it before.

Q · #9 February 3rd, 2002, 07:56 AM

Thank you very much for this information. I will then modify the planetary shield facility to phased shields. Otherwise it is just too easy to bypass by phased polaron beams.

Fyron · #10 February 3rd, 2002, 08:04 AM

Make sure to change this in the AI files too, otherwise they won't be able to use it.